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Posted by Cathy Lu
Monday, January 02, 2006, 06:58 PM (PST)

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There are many ways to skin a laptop--or so the minds behind Cellfan.com want you to believe. Cellfan.com is a new site that offers custom skins for almost any device you can think of, from cell phones to iPods, gaming devices to laptops. At CES the company will be touting its recent partnership with Toshiba to provide skins for all its laptops.

Cellfan offers skins in all sorts of categories, including sports, music, and comics. You can get Grateful Dead skins, Elvis skins, sports-team skins, and generally fashionable-looking skins. You can also show off your college logo (and props to the site for having my alma mater--Northwestern University), or if you want to be a bit obnox--uh, I mean, proud--your fraternity or sorority symbol.

Prices range from $12.95 for a phone or MP3 player skin to $24.95 for a laptop skin. That seems a little rich for my blood, but I guess that's the price you pay for not looking like the next guy.


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Posted by Wildcat0695 on Tuesday, January 03, 2006, 08:48 PM (PST)

I like being able to be different from the next guy. Personalizing gadgets to fit your taste is okay by me as long as it is not overly offensive or inappropiate for the enovironment you sepdn most of your time in.

Posted by Wildcat0695 on Tuesday, January 03, 2006, 08:48 PM (PST)

I like being able to be different from the next guy. Personalizing gadgets to fit your taste is okay by me as long as it is not overly offensive or inappropiate for the enovironment you spend most of your time in.

Posted by Emily on Wednesday, January 04, 2006, 01:49 PM (PST)

Cool idea. Laptops are not easy to mod, but a skin for them would be great. I hope they have a skin or two for us science fiction geeks.

Posted by ValleyDriver on Wednesday, January 04, 2006, 10:33 PM (PST)

i went to the website. may be great products, but i couldn't figure out how to find out which products, mine not theirs, are supported.

it great to know they have relationships with sports leagues and musicians.

what i'd like to know is if anything i have is supported.

Posted by g-mang on Saturday, January 07, 2006, 06:59 PM (PST)

cool idea - better yet though - i found a site where you can actually create and design a skin yourself online, not just pick from a catalog. just google for a tego skin, or mytego.com check it out.

Posted by Justin on Wednesday, January 11, 2006, 11:47 AM (PST)

Just checked out both sites to put a skin on my iPod... Cellfan was less expensive 12.95 for an iPod vs. $20 at tego. I wasn't into any of the images on the tego site... pretty cheezy stock photos. Cellfan had a wide range of designs, stuff you might actually be interested in, not lame stock art. Anyway, I just ordered a Lakers skin, looking forward to trying it out.

Posted by Ray on Wednesday, January 11, 2006, 01:00 PM (PST)

I just went to the site and bought a skin for my razor cellphone. The prices were great, lower than the few other sites out there. The selection was good, I ordered a music skin. I actually could not believe how good some of the designs were, like jerseys for the sports stuff- your favorite team. I can't wait to get a Star Wars skin, I will order one for my laptop and one for my Dad.

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