This accessory was as inevitable as the hangover that follows the annual Gadget Lab post-CES party (where we enjoy a fabulous dinner at Denny?s followed by cheap wine sipped from stolen paper-cups in the liquor-store car-park). As soon as we saw the new iPod Nano?s clock-face app, we knew there would be a wrist-strap for it. We weren?t disappointed.
The strap has the pun-tastic name Rock Band and comes from a company called iLoveHandles. The Nano can be set to use the clock as its lock-screen, so a simple touch is enough to bring up the face and check the time. The Rock Band is a wrist-strap onto which the Nano clips (it has the same clip on its back as the Shuffle) and becomes an oversized wristwatch. Well, oversized if you?re not used to hefting a tacky chunk of gold Rolex on your arm, that is.
It?s a great idea, and not really that much different than the sports armbands that have held Nanos to the upper-arms of sporty people for years. I guess that if you were actually going to listen to music while wearing this, you?d need to run the cable up a sleeve to stop it constantly snagging, but that?s not big deal.
The Rock Band is $20, and is surely only the first in what will be a rather crowded market.
Rock Band product page [iLoveHandles. Thanks, Avik!]
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