iPhone Custom - the baddest case modification EVER
Posted by Will on Sunday, February 24th, 2008 at 1:18 pm under iPhone, Apple, Announcements
Sure, you can slather your smartphone (or even not-s0-smartphone) with all manner of precious metals and cover in obscene displays of bejeweled wealth, but come one, do those gaudy, tasteless handsets look any better than their “before” pictures? Hardly. The point of those tacky monstrosities isn’t to show off your “style” or how “cool” your handset is. The point is to advertise to the world that you spent more on your mobile phone than many people do on their cars.
Suffice it to say that I’m not a fan of overly expensive case-modifications. Or, at least I wasn’t until I saw this incredible case mod for the iPhone. What you see here is the iPhone custom. Through some crazy expensive plasma-deposition technology, Paul Knight
created the iPhone custom by coating the iPhone casing with a layer of TiN and TiAlN (Titanium-Nitrogen, and Titanium-Aluminum-Nitrogen) through a process known as “plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition.”
What you get is an anodized iPhone casing (matte black to match the black plastic cover) and an Apple logo finished in the TiN or TiAlN (via that complex plasma deposition process we just mentioned). The TiN coating gives the Apple logo a shiny Gold presence, while the TiAlN coating gives the logo an understated, stealthy look.
Both versions of the iPhone Custom look good enough to sell your soul for. Now, we just have to get that second mortgage started…
[Via: MacMod]
February 25th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Interesting to see that American companies are jumping over each other patriotically promoting homegrown product to such an extent that Iphone news are saturated everywhere. Talk about shotgun approach…:-)
April 29th, 2008 at 1:56 am
this is my iphone case mod :
http://www.iphoneclub.nl/5817/indrukwekkende-iphone-casemod-croiman-psycho-iphone-mod/
September 1st, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Yeah… uh, NO… I’ll pass! Looks nice and it’s kinda cool to add a little customization to the iPhone since they all look the same but the Black iPhone 3G looks pretty badass to me already!