{"id":8769,"date":"2010-08-16T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/pimp_your_ipad_and_iphone_4_with_carbon_fiber.html"},"modified":"2010-08-16T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T14:23:00","slug":"pimp-your-ipad-and-iphone-4-with-carbon-fiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/pimp-your-ipad-and-iphone-4-with-carbon-fiber.html","title":{"rendered":"Pimp Your iPad and iPhone 4 With Carbon Fiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"display: inline;\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/moncarbone-4g-iphone-midnight-thumb-384x872-7760.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"581\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;\" class=\"mt-image-left\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/moncarbone-4g-iphone-midnight-thumb-384x872-7760-thumb-256x581-7761.png\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for moncarbone-4g-iphone-midnight.png\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The saying goes, if you have to ask how much an exotic sports car costs, you can&#8217;t afford it. The good news is if you are a tech and car nut you can accessorize your devices in a manner which may appeal to both your techie and auto sides while not totally breaking the bank. Many exotic cars like Lamborghinis and Ferraris are built in-part with carbon fiber which is a super-strong and lightweight material also used to build fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>An accessory maker named monCarbone has just <a href=\"http:\/\/gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/16\/to-make-your-ipad-look-like-a-racing-boat\/?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">released<\/a> a line of cases for iPads and iPhone 4s called HoverCoat and they come in Mystery Black, Midnight Black, for the iPad and iPhone 4 and soon there will be a Luminous Silver option for the iPhone 4.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, you likely can afford it as the iPad case comes in at $89.99 and the iPhone 4 case will set you back $59.99. So the next time some punk sits next to you at a Starbucks and tries to show off<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline;\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/moncarbone-4g-iphone-mystery.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"581\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px;\" class=\"mt-image-right\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/moncarbone-4g-iphone-mystery-thumb-256x581-7763.png\" alt=\"moncarbone-4g-iphone-mystery.png\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>his latest Droid phone or a Kindle you can confidently reach into your pocket or knapsack and leisurely pull out your carbon-fiber encased gadget. And be sure to remember to order that double espresso, shaken, not stirred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saying goes, if you have to ask how much an exotic sports car costs, you can&#8217;t afford it. The good news is if you are a tech and car nut you can accessorize your devices in a manner which may appeal to both your techie and auto sides while not totally breaking the bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,158,168,170,171,172,196,163,199,118,177,174,190,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}