(Tamar Weinberg is a) Schwag Addict

After spending the last several months testing the InvisibleShield from Zagg on my iPod and cell phone, I have to say that it’s a lot of fun to try to stab it with a fork and see that there’s absolutely NO damage to the device at all. I’ve since purchased many more InvislbleShields (protection for a new phone, my digital camera LCD, etc.) and the investments have been great. It really is military grade protection.

This is the box.

Inside is a special applicator liquid and a squeegee for excess liquid. It’s recommended that you are liberal at applying the liquid — it’s okay if there are bubbles that are made from the liquid, as you’ll be able to push it out with the squeegee. Don’t make it too dry or else it will look like your gadget has acne. (I do, unfortunately, speak from experience.)

Once the shield is securely fixed to your gadget, let it dry but be sure to use the squeegee to remove excess liquid. The air bumps will usually work themselves out as long as you were liberal in your liquid application.

Eventually, you’ll have a really interesting and protected device. You can try to stab it with a fork and a knife and nothing will happen. You can get your dog to scratch it and even try to get your keys to attack, but it won’t cause damage to the device.

Here’s a YouTube video of it being applied to the iPhone:

Here’s a stress test:

And after that, as you can tell, your device really can’t get more secure. The shield itself doesn’t interfere with other protection like iPod Shades (or my personal favorite, the Griffin Reflect iPod Case), so if you want added protection, go with both!

If you wanted protection for your iPod, look no further than Shades for iPod. This isn’t quite a case — they call it a shade. It’s a durable film protector for any sized iPod, but since I had a Nano without protection, I opted for that.

I expected one color, but there’s a whole collection of colors to suit the mood:

And here is the clear one on the Nano. Can you see it? Probably not! Again, it’s a shade — not a case. 🙂 However, it is noticeable up close — though from far away, it looks just like any iPod Nano (unless you get one of those funky colors going on).

Application was easy and it looks like solid protection. You get full control over the scroll bar with the shade covering it.