A Guide To The Coolest iPhone5 Accessories

The iPhone5 is inherently cool. But what could make it positively icy is a clutch of ultra-cool accessories that you can play with, work with and are designed to generally enhance your whole iPhone experience. Here are five of the coolest accessories you’ll find on the market today:

1. PopSLATE and Plastic Logic’s EPD display cover

Tired of diamante or leopard-print phone covers? Is that ‘basic black’ iPhone shell just too dull for words? While others are going for the whole ‘sleek’ engineered look, innovation experts Plastic Logic and PopSLATE decided to put the user back in charge of their iPhone with the EPD display cover. This cutting edge cover lets you customise your cover displayed on an integrated secondary electrophoretic display (EPD). Thanks to the flexible screen technology developed by Plastic Logic, it’s shatterproof, incredibly thin and lightweight and readable in direct light. It’s also energy-efficient, thanks to the ‘Always-on’ principle EPD. This means your battery is only used when you create a new image, and not when you’re simply leaving a static image on the screen.

Plastic Logic’s CEO Indro Mukerjee thinks it’s an accessory that will appeal to iPhone users across the world: “Our flexible EPD technology is proving ideal for smartphone accessory applications, and we are glad to be working with popSLATE in this market.

“In particular, Plastic Logic’s development of a colour flexible plastic display is significant, since the same process could enable unbreakable, flexible display solutions with other media such as LCD and OLED," he added recently.

2. MOTO TC Rally

Ah, boys (and girls) and their toys! This will appeal to your more playful side. The MOTO TC Rally is a tough RC car that connects to iOS devices via Bluetooth. It gives you all the fast maneuvering capabilities you can handle, thanks to proportional steering, impact sensors that detect bumps and crashes, shock-absorbing suspension, and rear-wheel drive to give it that authentic user experience. And for a bit of bling, you’ve even got ground-effect lighting.

3. Jackery Giant Portable Battery

Batteries. The bane of every iPhone user’s existence. How cool would it be to have a portable external battery that you could carry around with you, just in case? Oh, wait…there is! The Jackery Giant is an external battery with ultra-high capacity 10400mAh rechargeable power capacity and dual output ports. It works with iPhone5 and a whole host of other portable devices. It might be called ‘Giant’, but it’s pocket-sized and won’t accidentally activate and drain away, thanks to a fail-safe system.

4. BoxWave Keyboard Buddy Case

We might be getting rather good at ‘point’n’poke’ touchscreen technology, but sometimes you just need that keyboard, don’t you? Well, thanks to the BoxWave Keyboard, you can revert back to ‘type’ (apologies, we couldn’t resist that pun) and connect up this integrated wireless QWERTY keyboard to your iPhone. It has backlit keys, won’t interfere with the iPhone’s camera, and will last for about two weeks on a single charge.

5. Lightning to 30-pin Adapter

If you own 30-pin compatible accessories then you’ll know that the iPhone 5 is anything but compatible! However, this nifty little accessory gets around that problem and lets you use your 30-pin devices with your iPhone. Be aware, though, that it doesn’t support video output and it won’t work with all 30-pin plug-ins.

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Charlotte blogs about gadgets and technology, covering everything from the latest mobile advancements to display technology. When she’s not online Charlotte enjoys swimming, cycling and travelling the world.

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