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Chic and Conscious: The Vegan Leather Lyden DS iPhone 16 Case Redefines Style

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The Lyden Duo Series (Lyden DS) iPhone 16 case takes smartphone protection to a new level, focusing on essential functionality and a refined design. Built with practicality and user experience at its core, this case aligns perfectly with those seeking a personalized touch that enhances their iPhone’s usability. This case provides reliable protection and an essential accessory for daily use.

Designer: Uniq

Click Here to Buy Now: $29.90.

Unlike generic cases, the Lyden DS iPhone 16 case focuses on every detail. The latest version includes a well-placed cutout for the new capture button, ensuring no feature gets sacrificed for style. This small but significant change directly improves how users interact with their devices, allowing seamless access while maintaining the elegant look that defines the Lyden DS series. With usability at the forefront, the case makes convenience a breeze while offering complete protection.

The case delivers function and tactile pleasure. Its form-fitting design holds the iPhone securely without adding extra bulk. Thanks to the premium vegan leatherette, its sleek finish ensures durability while offering a soft texture that enhances the overall experience of carrying and using your device. This design approach acknowledges the way we balance utility with personal expression.

Luxurious Vegan Leatherette Material

A key feature of the Lyden DS iPhone 16 case is the luxurious vegan leatherette material, merging elegance with durability. This material withstands the challenges of daily use while maintaining a refined appearance, offering more than basic utility. It’s designed for those who appreciate sophisticated aesthetics and value reliable protection.

Choosing vegan leatherette is an ethical decision, prioritizing sustainability over mere aesthetics. As consumer preferences evolve, there is a growing shift towards sustainable alternatives. The cruelty-free nature of this material makes it a responsible choice, catering to users who prioritize sustainability without compromising on quality or aesthetics. It aligns with a broader movement towards ethical consumerism, where luxury coexists with conscious choices.

The soft texture of the material enhances both the tactile experience and the visual appeal, making it a pleasure to use every day. Carrying your iPhone in a Lyden DS case means choosing a product that’s practical and aligned with a lifestyle that values refined, responsible materials.

MagClick™ Magnetic Charging Compatibility

The Lyden DS case features MagClick™ magnetic charging compatibility, seamlessly enhancing convenience. Modern life demands efficiency, and the Lyden DS case delivers by integrating magnetic technology. It allows users to charge their devices easily without tangled cables or cluttered spaces.

Magnetic charging simplifies device interaction. The secure magnetic connection holds the phone in place, reducing wear from constant plugging and unplugging while keeping the setup tidy and efficient.

MagClick™ compatibility makes wireless charging easy without compromising the device’s aesthetics. The Lyden DS iPhone 16 case merges advanced technology with an elegant design, enhancing the user’s daily routine.

Protection and Design Features

When it comes to protection, the Lyden DS iPhone 16 case excels. Its raised edges protect the screen and camera, ensuring they remain free from scratches and damage during daily use. Unlike bulky cases that detract from the iPhone’s sleek design, the Lyden DS case manages to protect without compromising on elegance.

Every feature of the case is crafted to fit the iPhone 16 perfectly. From precise cutouts for all buttons and ports to the specific design adjustment for the new capture button, the Lyden DS enhances usability. Users access all of the phone’s functions effortlessly, enjoying the best iPhone technology without any limitations imposed by the case.

The Lyden DS case further ensures design and function are never at odds. The lightweight yet robust materials provide reliable protection that feels natural and comfortable in hand. It creates a case users don’t have to think about, one that integrates seamlessly with the phone and becomes an extension of the device itself.

Accessories That Complement

The Lyden DS series extends beyond the iPhone case, offering a cohesive collection of accessories designed to create a unified experience. Featuring an AirPods case and a magnetic card holder, each piece in the collection is crafted from the same luxurious vegan leatherette. This ensures all your tech accessories maintain a consistent, stylish aesthetic that speaks to refined taste.

The AirPods case combines function and elegance. It protects the charging case while ensuring easy access, with precise cutouts for easy access and compatibility. Compatible with wired and wireless charging, it adds versatility to any tech setup.

The magnetic card holder adds thoughtful practicality to the Lyden DS accessory lineup. With its secure magnetic attachment, it provides a practical way to carry essential cards without needing a bulky wallet. RFID-blocking technology adds security, while the foldable stand allows for hands-free viewing, enhancing everyday convenience. These accessories complement each other, making them aesthetically pleasing and highly practical.

Explore the New Era of Smartphone Style and Function

The Lyden Duo Series enhances how you interact with your tech. The premium vegan leatherette brings understated luxury to a practical, everyday accessory, while features like MagClick™ magnetic charging and the dedicated capture button cutout address the needs of modern smartphone users. It’s a case that embodies style and substance, offering more than mere protection.

This cohesive approach extends to the full lineup of accessories that harmoniously enhance the iPhone experience. Whether it’s the sleek AirPods case or the magnetic card holder, each piece adds value, convenience, and a touch of luxury to your daily tech routine. Embrace the Lyden Duo Series and transform your smartphone experience—where function meets style, and each accessory is meant to be part of your lifestyle.

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Modern ditch cover redesign blocks mosquitos and saves your coins

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There are many everyday things in life that we easily take for granted until they cause us a great deal of trouble. The cover ditches and drains are a good example because we rarely pay attention to them until streets start flooding or we drop some of our stuff, from coins to even smartphones. They also become gateways for mosquitoes, bacteria, and harmful microorganisms to invade the world above and threaten our health. These drain covers are often crude, ineffective, and pretty much unappealing, mostly because very few people bother making an effort to design one that checks all the right boxes. Fortunately, there are a few creative minds willing to tackle these problems head-on, producing a ditch cover design that isn’t just safe but also good-looking to boot.

Designer: Chris Chang

To be fair, designing an effective yet presentable ditch cover isn’t exactly easy because of seemingly contradictory goals. On the one wand, it needs to let water flow easily into it to prevent flooding during heavy rains. On the other hand, the holes have to be small to prevent people’s feet and loose change from falling into them. Even if covers meet those two requirements, however, they’re still open to letting mosquitoes out from sewers below, not to mention the backflow of dirty water if those sewers start to flood.

FloaX is a concept design that aims to address all those issues without leaving a single one unsolved. It lets water in but keeps the harmful things out, and it also prevents things from falling into it. The best part is that it actually looks interesting and visually appealing rather than being an eyesore on otherwise well-kept streets.

The design’s secret is the use of floating parts that can block the flow of water in either direction. A ball made of thin rubber acts as a plug that blocks the single round hole when there is no water to drain. When water flows down from the cover, however, it easily floats to let water drain quickly. The ball sits on top of a valve plank that also floats up or settles down, depending on the situation.

This plank serves as the bottom “cover” that blocks mosquitoes, bacteria, and even odors from escaping. When the sewer below starts to flood, the plank rises and blocks the dirty water from flowing into the streets, keeping the area sanitary and pedestrians safe. The parts that make up this ditch cover aren’t anchored down to allow them to move and float freely. Instead, they are enclosed in a metal shelf that turns these parts into a single product.

Instead of typical grilles, the cover on top uses a polygonal gradient design that still lets water in while blocking small objects from falling through. It also gives the cover better structural integrity and friction, preventing people from slipping or falling into ditches. The design also looks good, to the point that it could even be an attraction rather than something people avoid because they look gross.

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3D-printed covers can help you re-use bottles and jars

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I sometimes stare at my kitchen, thinking of whether to throw away all the knick-knacks like bottles, containers, and every other thing that I seem to have collected over the past few months. It would of course be easier to throw them away but that is not so kind to mother earth. Products that will help me upcycle these items are always welcome, especially if these products are recycled or upcycled themselves. If we don’t have a recycling center near, it’s a good idea to try and reuse all the waste you have lying around.

Designer: extrude.studio

3D technology has also made recycling and upcycling a bit easier, giving us even more ideas on how to repurpose materials and waste. The Upcycled Jars Collection is one such project that gives us different kinds of jar tops or covers so you can reuse the glass bottles or containers that are just lying around. All you do is screw the top you need on your bottle, use it, clean it, then use a different top the next time. The covers are made from used bioplastic packaging waste collected in Europe and then 3D printed in the Parisian region.

For plant parents, there’s a self-watering pot cover that has a wick that will send the water up to the plant’s soil. Artists can use the paintbrush holder that has a thin wall on the side that will drain the excess water for when they’re painting. For those working or studying, there is a pencil pot that has space to hold pens, scissors, erasers, and other office supplies. If you just want to use the bottle as a regular container, there’s a regular cover.

There are also several covers for self-care and other related hobbies. There’s a candle holder, incense holder, and a knock box to store your spent coffee grounds. There’s also a soap holder that makes it easier for you to grab your soap and it is also able to collect the dripping water. If you’re saving up money, you can use the piggy bank cover. And if you want to waste money by smoking, there’s also an ashtray cover. They have also made some of these designs available in a library for 3D files so users can print them on their own.

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This prefab tiny backyard home in Los Angeles embraces the city’s semi-outdoor lifestyle

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Los Angeles’s Highland Park neighborhood welcomes a new tiny backyard home designed and constructed by Cover to embrace’s southern California’s semi-outdoor lifestyle.

Southern California is known for its sunny skies and Mediterranean climate. Without a cloud in sight and warm weather year-round, it’s no wonder most of LA’s residents spend their time outside and their homes reflect it. Since the climate in LA is similar to Spain, much of the city’s architectural landscape is influenced by Spanish Colonial Architecture. That’s why stucco and adobe are such common building materials for homes in southern California. LA-based AO Studio’s co-founder Oni Lazarus turned to Cover, a prefab home-building company, to build a backyard retreat that hones in on LA’s semi-outdoor lifestyle and the building materials that make it happen.

Located in Los Angeles’s Highland Park neighborhood, the backyard tiny home was designed and constructed by Cover as a rental experience for Lazarus and her partner, Didi. Like most of Cover’s structures, the Highland Park tiny home is a prefab project. The architects at Cover oversaw each of the home’s design and construction decisions, creating an idyllic, semi-outdoor backyard oasis destined for the LA sun.

Sporting a prefab, panelized structure, steel framing gives rise to the backyard tiny home and its many dynamic features. While Cover designed and built the home, Oni and Didi still had a say in various interior elements. For instance, hydronic heating and cooling systems add to the home’s relaxed, Mediterranean profile. Then, custom-milled storage units dot the home’s living areas, providing a means to declutter and open up the home’s bright interiors.

Throughout the home, interior design elements are kept to a minimum to accentuate the home’s views of LA’s skyline through the floor-to-ceiling windows that merge with an Accoya wood, wraparound deck. Complementing Oni’s and Didi’s main light-gray stucco residence, the tiny backyard home’s exterior is clad in subdued, gray fiber cement panels. The home’s soft, white facades coupled with expansive, floor-to-ceiling windows work to blur the barrier between indoor and outdoor spaces even further.

While the tiny home maintains a minimalist, open-plan interior, the subtle structural elements like floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors that merge with a wraparound deck really help make the home feel more dynamic. Speaking to the home’s embodiment of semi-outdoor living, Oni and Didi say, “To us, it’s a lifestyle that we’re advocating—it’s not just a place to rent.”

Designer: Cover

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Superhero Helmet Car Ignition Button Covers: I Am Iron Car

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Car ignition buttons: they usually just say ‘START STOP’ and sit there looking boring. Well now you can spice up your vehicle’s go button with one of these superhero helmet covers manufactured by LCDXBYTFT (try saying that ten times fast!) and available on Amazon (affiliate link). Plus I heard they add at least another 5 horsepower with their looks alone, similar to racing stripes or red brake caliper covers.

Available in several different superhero styles (Iron Man, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Punisher, Bumblebee) and a variety of colors (some with translucent eyes that will appear to glow after dark if your ignition button is illuminated), the covers are “applicable to 99% of existing market models.” But what about my 2001 Explorer that doesn’t even have an ignition button? Or functional heat or A/C.

According to the manufacturer, the ignition covers make “every start of the car a sense of ritual.” Presumably a different ritual than the one I perform now, which involves saying a prayer and crossing my fingers the engine actually turns over, then proceeding to curse all the way to work in the cold.

The only thing I absolutely hate about the Google Pixel 6 is how ugly its cases are going to be…

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Google Pixel 6 Protective Cover Case Alibaba

The Google Pixel 6 is coming… and with it, a barrage of hideous cases that completely destroy its beautiful aesthetic.

Roughly a month ago Jon Prosser claimed he had credible information regarding how the upcoming Google Pixel 6 would look. The images he shared with the world showed a radical new design that had a pretty standout visual detail – an elongated camera bump that covered the entire phone’s width… it was less of a bump and more of a ‘bumper’. My own personal thoughts on the design were mixed, although I have to admit it was refreshing to see Google investing effort into its Pixel range after an extremely lackluster performance last year. I am, however, having second thoughts after seeing the kinds of smartphone cases appearing on websites like Alibaba as we slowly approach the Pixel 6’s launch.

Google Pixel 6 Protective Cover Case Alibaba

You see, that camera belt may be a design feature, but it’s also a major design flaw once you consider that most smartphone users would end up buying protective cases to shield their expensive smartphones from damage. The benefit with almost every smartphone’s camera bump is that its camera exists INSIDE its body, so when case-designers make cases, the simple solution of navigating around the smartphone’s camera bump is to create a cutout there. The case has a rather manageable hole through which the camera peeks through, sort of like a ski-mask. That, however, isn’t possible with the Pixel 6… A look at the image below should explain why.

The fact that the Pixel 6’s camera module extends all the way from the left to the right makes it very difficult to create one single cutout. If one were to simply go about creating a camera hole, you’d essentially have a case that exists in two parts that are barely connected together near the middle. The case becomes a merely decorative product that simply protects the edges of the smartphone, giving no cover to the cameras, which in the case of the Pixel 6, are dangerously exposed. The only way to really overcome this problem and make a proper case would be to design OVER the phone’s wide camera bump, adding another 1-2 millimeters to it and making the bump EVEN LARGER. The cutout would then exist only around the lenses and not the bump itself… as you can see in the image below.

This ‘technical’ solution spells disaster for the Pixel 6’s aesthetics. It exaggerates the phone’s elongated camera bump, turning an elegant detail into an ugly caricature… and the minute you choose an opaque cover over a transparent one, it practically conceals every element of the Pixel 6’s design, making it look like “just another phone”, albeit with a monstrous bump around its camera, exposing a major flaw in Google’s design approach to the Pixel 6 – that smartphone designs exist in a bubble where phone-makers expect you to NOT put protective cases on expensive and fragile phones. Not Okay, Google.

Google Pixel 6 Protective Cover Case Alibaba

Google Pixel 6 Protective Cover Case Alibaba

Images via: Alibaba

Clever 3D-printed case lets you attach an AirTag tracking device to your Apple TV Remote

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I’ve often felt like Apple‘s multiple product departments work separately, with a minimal informational exchange. How else would you explain the fact that in the same event, Apple announces the AirTags that expand on the company’s massive FindMy network, and also announces a new Apple TV with a redesigned remote… that can’t be tracked.

A major problem with the Apple TV remote up until now was (apart from its stunningly bad UX) that it was a ridiculously thin gadget that often got lost by slipping in between cushions or just sitting somewhere inside a magazine. The sleekness of the Apple TV remote wasn’t a feature, it was a flaw, and people were constantly complaining about losing their remote and never being able to find it… so when Apple redesigned their remote, many were expecting the 2 trillion-dollar company to address this problem too. However, all Apple managed to do was redesign the remote’s controls by bringing an iPod-style jog-dial on it.

For the thousands of people who don’t see themselves buying a new remote just so that they can face the same old problems, Etsy-maker PrintSpired Designs has a neat workaround – a 3D printed case that not only gives the old Apple TV remote some volume and thickness but also allows you to slip an AirTag in so you can track your remote when it inevitably gets misplaced.

Click Here to Buy Now – $12.99

It’s worth noting that even with the case on, the remote isn’t that thick. The case measures 14mm in height, which is about as thick as 2 iPhones stacked together. The printed case doesn’t weigh much either (given that it’s printed with support structures which basically makes it hollow on the inside), so it’s still comfortable to use. The case makes enough space for one AirTag to fit right into its design, and when the remote sits in place, it still lets you access its charging port.

The remote-case itself is available on PrintSpiredDesigns’ Etsy store for $12.99. However, if you’ve got access to a 3D Printer, you can download the STL file for $1.99 and print your own. I’d prefer buying the case though because they come in color options, including even one printed from glow-in-the-dark filament!!

Designer: PrintSpiredDesigns

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This Apple TV cover-case makes your set-top box look like a Nintendo console!

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Elago is back with a nostalgic revival project… although this time, it isn’t a cover-case for the AirPods or the Apple Watch. The Elago T4 is a silicone cover that slips around your Apple TV set-top box, transforming it from a sleek black device to a grey SNES-inspired gaming console. In fact, there’s a cover-case for the remote too, turning its back surface into a faux controller complete with the XYAB and D-Pad buttons.

Of course, there are some who’d prefer the cutting-edge black aesthetic of the Apple TV, but what the Elago T4 does is introduce a nostalgic touch to the device. Sure, it’s meant for a subset of gadget-lovers and not everyone, but for its target audience, the T4 provides a beautiful bit of nostalgia while also giving your set-top box a nice, impact-resistant cover-case! Oh, and that lanyard on the TV remote case REALLY makes it easy to carry and use.

Designer: Elago