Personalize your Mobile Devices
For: Cell Phones, N-Gage, Nintendo DS, PDA/Wireless, Game Boy
Advance, MP3 Players, PSP, iPod, and any other portable mobile
device. If your relationship with your mobile device--be it cell
phone, GBA, iPod, PSP or PDA--verges on "love affair" (or
exceeds it, for that matter), you might want to check out
www.mytego.com.
This new interactive shopping site from Winnipeg-based myTego
Inc. is all about "stylized mobility." The service allows you to
create and order a fully customized detailing kit for your
chosen electronic buddy. These "skins on demand," so to speak,
include a wide variety of stock art, colour swatches and
imagery, all mix-match-able through a clever, intuitive, online
interface, and may also include pictures, portraits and
self-created designs uploaded through your browser from your
hard drive.
When you're done, 'Tego technology then churns out one-off
decals made from durable, quality vinyl backed with a pressure
sensitive adhesive, precision cut to fit each device and mailed
to you--though it's up to the end-user to actually put it on,
some manual dexterity required.
Ever seen a bus covered entirely by one big advertisement? Same
sort of thing. Only smaller, obviously.
The custom skins are said to last is 6 to 9 months before they
start to wear, at which point they can be peeled off and
replaced easily enough.
Prices range from $10 - $28 US or $12 - $34 Canadian per device,
depending both on complexity (as befitting the sprawling
keyboard on a Blackberry, for example) and on how many separate
faces you want to cover (the bi-folding nature of the Nintendo
DS means up to for 4 separate pieces; an iPod, just 2, max).
With ready-to-print templates fitting some 482 devices (all
popular) and their individual nooks & crannies, buttons &
display screen(s), the order through delivery process usually
takes about 10 days. If myTego doesn't have a template for your
device, simply enter the make and model and they'll make a one
for you, within 7 (additional) days.