Somehow, Griffin has managed to take the laundry-list of dork-tastic follies as well as mix them into a singular product which essentially looks utterly good. It’s called the Slap, and it turns your iPod Nano into the watch.

The Slap is the chronicle of those old slap bracelets that are still used to have contemplative cuffs for cyclists. Inside is a frame of memory-metal that you can straighten out, though which now circles your arm as well as grips it when you slap it opposite your wrist.

This frame is encased in brightly-colored silicone, recalling a bad conform choices we made in a 1980s.

Finally, it copies the already unoriginal idea of branch a clock-faced Nano into a wristwatch.

And I can’t help though adore it. Until you try wearing the brand-new Nano upon your wrist, don’t laugh. It’s the surprisingly unsentimental place to put it, even if snaking a headphone wire up your sleeve out through your neck cuff is the small fiddly. I have carried a Nano this approach, both upon my existing watch-strap and (nerd-alert) upon the Honl Speed Strap Velcroed around my arm.

Griffin’s Slap has a semi-enclosed capsule for a iPod, with the single hole for the headphones to come in. The volume as well as sleep/wake buttons have been lonesome, though have lifted nodules over them to assistance you click by. The touch-screen is of march always unprotected.

The Slap will be accessible shortly, as well as comes in a double-rainbow of eye-searingly splendid colors. For a tedious Henry Fords out there, it also comes in black. $25.

Slap product page [Griffin]