RR01

For my RR01, I turned to http://www.wired.com.  Wired is a magazine they I read frequently so I knew there would be something pertaining to design somewhere within.  In this case I came across an article entitled; "The 3 Coolest and 3 Lamest iAccessories at CES."  As a little background to the title, CES is the Consumer Electronics Show held in January in Las Vegas.

First Wired commented on a see-through iPad 2 case.  The case itself looked cheap but the more intriguing thing was the iPad 2 aspect.  The iPad 2 has not been released yet so the fact there there was a case for sale raised questions.  Apparently Apple cannot keep its secrets very well in the accessory business because this case turned out to be legit.
Next they took a look into the Mophie iPhone gaming accessory, the Mophie Pulse.  This case has speakers and vibrates during high action parts of games.  From the looks of it, it seemed to be designed pretty well, not making the phone much bigger.
Personally being a car junkie I thought the next accessory was very cool.  The device is called the CarTrip and it plugs right into your cars on-board diagnostics port.  This device (pared with the right app) then sends anything wrong with your engine straight to your phone via bluetooth.
Moving into Wired rateded "lame" products, we have an iPad case that looks like the ass-end of a pair of jeans.  Clearly not exactly the most attractive case.  Next was the MiLi was a cheaply made product that very badly projects video from your iPhone onto the wall.  And if the video quality wasn't bad enough, the speaker were 1-watt, not good at all.  Lastly Wired found that a very tacky pink iPhone case made by Barbie made a classy iPhone look cheap.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/01/coolest-lamest-accessories/?utm_source&pid=1152&viewall=true

This article particularly stuck out to me because of the CES tags.  A few of my friends and I plan to "piggy-back" of my friends' father to get into the convention next January.  I also own an iPod Touch and hope to eventually acquire an iPad, so accessories for such products interest me.  Also, accessories are designed based.  The point of an accessory is to make a product function and look better.