{"id":1434,"date":"2005-05-13T17:48:44","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T22:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2005-05-13T17:48:44","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T22:48:44","slug":"tough-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2005\/05\/13\/tough-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough-Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been looking for a case for my 60gb Photo iPod for some time now&#8230;  Its been diffcult to find one that I wanted becuase I wanted the following features:<\/p>\n<p><b>Anti-Shock<\/b> &#8211; First off, I wanted a drop-proof design&#8230; since there&#8217;s a hard drive inside, I feel like the moment my iPod hits the pavement its going to die on me.<\/p>\n<p><b>Screen protection<\/b> &#8211; I often shove my iPod into my backpack or laptop bag.  Usually this means it goes into a pocket in either bag that has other stuff in it &#8211; like pens, other cables, sometimes even food.  I mean, how depressing would it be to whip out your iPod to find a huge scratch on the display caused by my pocketknife or my cell phone charger?<\/p>\n<p><b>Click-wheel protection<\/b> &#8211; for the same reasons I want to protect my screen, I believe the wheel needs some protection as well.<\/p>\n<p><b>Removable belt-clip<\/b> &#8211; sometimes, I want my iPod on my belt&#8230; sometimes I don&#8217;t. (insert mounds bar vs. almond joy bar joke here)<\/p>\n<p>Alas, I found the case that works for me &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speckproducts.com\/toughskin.html\" target=\"_blank\">ToughSkin<\/a>. There are lots of pictures of it on their site, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speckproducts.com\/toughskin-ds.html\" target=\"_blank\">detailed shots<\/a> of all the features and how all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speckproducts.com\/toughskin.html\" target=\"_blank\">different colors<\/a> look.<\/p>\n<p>I almost ordered one on their website, but found out that the local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compusa.com\/products\/product_info.asp?product_code=318988\" target=\"_blank\">CompUSA carries it in their brick-and-mortar stores<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One last thing that makes this particular case interesting is that most skin-tight cases similar to the ToughSkin requires you to order the correct size for your iPod.  So you&#8217;ll need a specific SKU for a 15gb unit, versus as 60gb unit since the 60 is thicker than the 15.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speckproducts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Speck Products<\/a> did a pretty good job with the ToughSkin and it will fit any and all 4G iPods &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speckproducts.com\/toughskin-inst.html\" target=\"_blank\">check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I love it &#8211; highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been looking for a case for my 60gb Photo iPod for some time now&#8230; Its been diffcult to find one that I wanted becuase I wanted the following features: Anti-Shock &#8211; First off, I wanted a drop-proof design&#8230; since there&#8217;s a hard drive inside, I feel like the moment my iPod hits the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}