Big Grips Frame for iPad
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Update Dec 2013: Big Grip Slim is designed to for charging and storage carts. Here is the May '11 review of the original Big Grips. Preschool teachers and children's librarians, take note: The Big Grips Frame ($35, www.biggrips.com) tightly encapsulates your iPad in an inch-thick wrapper of squishy, high density foam, generally without blocking important ports, controls or sensors. For a preschooler, the frame makes the rather slippery iPad much more toy-like, especially when used with apps that demand shaking or tilting the screen. The thick edge also protects your iPad when dropped on the floor, and it prevents unintentional bumps on the on/off or volume button. It also looks like it would float rather nicely in a pool; although I didn't test this idea. The frame fits snugly into the Big Grips Stand ($25), which can hold your iPad in horizontal or vertical position for desktop use. Available in four colors (green, blue, pink and gray), the non-toxic foam can be washed with soap and water, and it looks like it could hold its own with teething toddler. A slightly thinner iPad 2 and iPad Air versions have camera holes.
$35, iPad, iPad 2
Teaches: an iPad peripheral and frame