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Griffin Slap: Lovechild of a Kids Bracelet and iPod Case

Shane McGlaun — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:53:00 +0000

My daughter had this fetish for slap bracelets for a while. You could be just walking down the hall and she would run up and slap a bracelet around your wrist hard enough to leave a red welt. Those slap bracelets disappeared mysteriously later. Griffin has unveiled a new watchband of the latest iPod nano that uses that same slap bracelet tech.

The $24.99 Griffin Slap is yet another case for the nano 6G that runs the thing into an extra geeky watch. The controls of the nano are covered for the most part when the case is on. You can access the headphone port and the touchscreen functions.

The edges of the case around the nano’s face are raised to offer protection to the screen. There are little nubs on the outside of the case showing you where to press for volume controls and such. You can get one “soon” according to Griffin.

Wii Wrist Straps Get Recalled by Nintendo

Technabob — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:46:19 +0000

Whether or not you believe all of the incidents that have occurred due to a faulty wrist strap on Nintendo’s Wii controller, Nintendo certainly doesn’t want to take any chances and today issued a recall, and started offering free replacement wrist straps.

This confirms our earlier report that Nintendo had started to ship new straps with newer controllers already. To order your free replacement straps, simply fill out the form here. you’ll need your console serial number, and you won’t have to return your old straps.

[via Engadget]

Wii Wrist Strap Gets Silently Beefed Up by Nintendo

Technabob — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:51:01 +0000

After a number of concerns about easily broken wrist straps on the Nintendo Wii’s “Wii-mote” controller (and Nintendo’s denial that anything was wrong other than aggressive game play), it appears that Nintendo has started to include improved straps with recently shipped consoles.

From this comparison image posted on GoNintendo, it’s clear that there are much thicker cords on these controllers than were in the initial shipments. While there’s no absolute confirmation that the new cords are actually more durable, in most cases a thicker cord should mean a stronger cord. Nintendo continues to tow the line that there was nothing wrong with the design of the straps to begin with, but I’m glad to see they worked on a solution anyhow. There’s no word from Nintendo if these upgraded straps will be available for purchase to improve the original Wii-mote.

[UPDATE: You can now order a replacement strap from Nintendo for just $1.00 here. From what we've heard, the one's they're shipping are the new version.]