The previous design was a lot sleeker, and placed the controls on the side. But it didn't have those awesome nubs. A test run of those units were shipped to selected people in February, and early feedback, plus a "sleepless night", lead to the updated, bigger look.

You'll need to Jailbreak your iPhone, but the iControlPad is supported by some of the biggest iPhone devs (including ZodTTD's PSX and GBA emulators). If you're interested in placing a pre-order, sign up for the newsletter over at: [iControlPad]

The Price: $30

The Verdict: It does what it claims, which is hold two of your credit cards/ID cards simultaneously, but it's a pretty snug fit. The slight bending or bowing that your cards go through to fit into the slot shouldn't be enough to break it, but the two will scrape against each other because the space is so small. Which is good and bad.

On the one hand it's good, since it means your cards won't fly out of the slot when you're whipping out your phone. But it's also bad, since you'll have some slight difficulty in pushing out your cards. But it's not unusable, and it's not anything you can't overlook if your whole reason for getting this is that you don't want to carry a wallet on you.

Our only complaint would be that there's only room for two cards, and very little room for cash. Technically you're not supposed to even put cash into the slot, but if you fold up a couple bills, it'll still squeeze into the limited amount of space given.

Those of you who carry money clips will be familiar with only having your ID, one or two credit cards and some cash in your pocket. With this, you'll cut down the need to even have a money clip in addition to your phone, the convenience of which is probably worth $30 to you.

It does what it claims and holds two cards snugly

Slightly hard to remove the cards once they're inside

Not a lot of room for cash

It's a little more expensive at $35 (the controller is $10 extra), but that's what you get for quality of this caliber. Oh, and don't hesitate on picking this up—quantities are extremely limited. Also, it'll be on display at Gizmodo Gallery. [Etsy via iPhone Savior via Gearfuse]

There's no denying the convenience of putting all your stuff into one device when you want to travel light. Potential ID-flinging when you take the phone out of your pocket aside, it's definitely an interesting idea, and a physical interpretation of the "smart phone" that keeps all your payment and identification information on it.

It is only $30, and it does protect your phone with a protective film, which makes it at least as good as regular cases. So if you're the kind of person who has a money clip instead of a wallet, pry off $30 and send it to Case-Mate. [Case-Mate]

According to the product page, d30 cases can offer up to "150% more protection than other cases." Of course, that protection doesn't extend to the screen, which is probably your number one concern. [Tech 21 and Recombu via CrunchGear]

The protectively sealed bag design has clear windows so you can still use your iPod Touch or iPhone's touchscreen, and take under water happy snaps. I''m not sure that I'd personally want to risk it, but you can take the plunge for 3,280 yen (about $34). [Sanwa via DVICE]

Summermodo is a chance for Giz to get outside and test our gear where it belongs.

Oh, and the egg is a pouch. How cute is that? Perhaps enough to pay $35 for it. [Etsy via Walyou]

If you insist on encouraging this trend, the VHS iPhone case is available in limited quantities for $25. [Etsy via iPhone Savior via Gearfuse]

$25 is the only thing standing between plastic tackiness and Nintendo retro class. [Etsy via Geeky Gadgets]

So pretty and handmade. I want. [Etsy via 7Gadgets]

The price: $50

The price, again: $50 (seriously?)

The verdict: My eyes are now all screwed up. Seriously.

The Wazabee 3DeeShell is essentially an iPhone case built around one key feature: a 3D screen filter. Obviously it can't turn the OS into a 3D experience, but the Shell promises to offer glasses-less 3D in the form of stereoscopic images you can take on your iPhone (with the purchase of their $1 3DeeCamera software).

I don't know where to start with the shortcomings of this product. It's a train wreck of molded plastic, a product so horridly useless, even amongst novelty gadgets, that it should be banned from sale in the free market.

There's the issue of the design. Once you slide the 3D filter onto your screen, you can no longer navigate the iPhone. Therefore, while using their software (that's not free with my $50, otherwise completely useless purchase?) you need to continually move the filter up to hit a button, and then down again to see the results.

You can capture "3D" photos by taking two slightly different pictures of an object and combining them in that $1 software I mentioned above. I was unable to do so without crashing the program (though to be fair, this might be my firmware 3.0 getting in the way). However, I was able to 3D-ize an existing photo.

The result is not quite as good as any bad hologram I've ever seen, mostly creating the illusion that the photo was ever so slightly sunken in my display. It's a tad better than 2D in terms of depth, but the results are quite blurry, and the extent to which it fucks with your eyesight is not worth the 2 minutes of near-entertainment.

(In case you believe my 3D-izing skills to be lacking, I also tried out their free space shooter title. I don't know what to say about it other than the game's fun level is on par with creating Excel spread sheets and it in no way appears 3D.)

45 minutes after testing, I still can't focus properly with my left eye. I'm not sure what a few rusty nails go for these days, but it's gotta be less than 50 bones.

There's simply nothing worthwhile about the Wazabee 3DeeShell that can justify either its existence or its please-punch-me-in-the-face cutesy name. Given the laughable price and (temporary??) damage to my vision, I don't believe that I can recommend the purchase, nor can I recommend any programmer create content for the "platform" when its SDK hits later this month.

Also of note, in some unnecessarily cruel twist of fate, I can't get this shell off my phone. Thanks Wazabee. You guys are the best. [Wazabee]

At a later time, I was able to remove the shell from my phone

Following several years of therapy, the doctors believe I will see again

Product birthed by Satan himself

The Mophie Juicepack Air is slated to be the sveltest iPhone battery boosting case yet. (Exactly how thin that means, we are honestly not sure.) Packed with a 1200 mAH lithium polymer battery, the Juicepack Air can function as a regular iPhone case, or it can be switched out of "standby" to add 4.5 hours of talk/surf time to the handset.

Priced at $80 and available this Spring, it might be alright, but now we're really craving a Capri Sun. That'll put the price up to $82.50 at least. [Mophie]

The final version will be black, but contain the same layout and button count as the image above. No details on when it's heading to production, but it is, so we're excited. [Zodttd via Engadget]

iDeals China claims that it is, and offers plenty of specs to back it up. They say that the new iPhone nano will be the same height as the current iPod nano and include "3 sensors, camera, [and a] mirror screen but no 3G." They also say that production of the iPhone nano will begin on December 20th, when we can expect to see all sorts of shots on the web.

Of course, there are a slew of reasons why these claims could be completely nuts. For one, it actually seems less likely for the manufacturer that leaked the last iPhone to leak the next iPhone. Does Apple really need third party cases ready at launch so badly that they're willing to forgo any level of secrecy and hand over device mockups (along with full specs?) to a company that historically cannot be trusted? No way. A factory-to-factory dialogue is all we could imagine.

And then there's the absurdity of the iPhone nano itself. On one hand, it could be an entry-level iPhone that allows Apple to corner the same market they did with their original nano (and shuffle, for that matter). But on the other, an iPhone nano would be comically small—almost like holding a Bluetooth headset to your face.

Needless to say, the entire Giz staff is highly skeptical of such a rumor—most of us don't believe it. But we wanted you to know what's going on in the world of iPhone rumors leading up to Macworld next month. Consider yourself armed and geek-dangerous. [idealschina via PMPToday]

The Price: $21.90

The Verdict: Protective goodness. We're usually very down on cases for any kind of phone or PMP—why cover up something well designed with something quite ugly—but sleeves are an entirely different matter. Fabrix' version provides ample cushioning for your phone when it's not in use, but you're supposed to take your iPhone entirely out of the sleeve when you're actually handling it. Couple that with the fact that these sleeves are actually very nice looking and you've got a great combination of usability and aesthetics.

It's especially useful for women with purses, as the ones we're familiar with just throw their phones in with their keys, pens and other sharp objects. Now with the case, we can place our phones in the same pocket as our keys—something we have always stayed away from. Pick up a few to change out when you're tired of the old one. [Fabrix]