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Etch-a-sketch iPad case

Mark Frauenfelder at 9:06 am Tue, Sep 21, 2010

Kindle

201009210903

$39 at Headcase. (Via Blame it on the Voices)

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Anonymous

Dilbert, anyone? http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-04-03/
- Nelson.C
  
  I’ll buy it if it resets the iPad when I turn it upsidedown and shake it.
Mr Dude

If you shake it, does it loose its memory?
Anonymous

Does anyone notice the hole in the case for a camera? Face time?
- Anonymous
  
  The hole is for the ambient light sensor on the current iPad
wrybread

Argh, looks like those knobs are decoration only, and there’s no actual Etch A Sketch program built to work with it.

So close, and yet so incredibly far.

Reminds me of this, which is why I bought my iPad, before finding out it was an April Fool’s joke:

http://tagn.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/ipad-arcade-stand-april-fools/
- Anonymous
  
  You can do it, wry.
  
  Dissect a USB ball-mouse and put a wheel under each wheel, so to speak. It’s a reasonably minor hardware hack. The software’s not too hard either, although you’ll want to hire it out if you’re not a coder.
  - wrybread
    
    I probably wouldn’t even buy it if it did have working knobs. Personally I can never make sense of Etch a Sketches. But I’m surprised that, given the iPad’s bluetooth keyboard mating ability, we’re not seeing more external hardware interface with it, like two working knobs would have been.
Teller

Nice.