The homescreen looks pretty good, with HTC's trademark flipping clock (although the skinned clock doesn't actuall flip), weather, and three customizable apps, with the icon for the sliding app tray just to the right. The dialer is also skinned, with the fat-finger-friendly Android number keys, but that's mostly it—the apps themselves aren't skinned, and neither is the list of apps. But it'll definitely give a fresh coat of paint to the iPhone if you're tired of the homescreen, as long as you don't expect the iPhone UI to be as totally changed by Sense as Android's was. [Redmond Pie via Engadget]

It looks super smooth even on an underpowered device like the Centro, and is not only pretty but functional as well. WebOS's cards and launcher are replicated really nicely, which breathes so much life back into the Centro it might as well be a whole new phone.

TealOS is available here for $14.95, and looks absolutely worth it. What do you think, Centro owners? [Engadget]

We're skipping the "juvenile complexion" part, since that brings back too many memories of teenage spottiness.

It sounds almost too good to be true, yet the team believes they've cracked the medical reasoning behind the technique: the light penetrates the skin layers and removes built-up water molecules which stop the elastin in your skin from being so flexible. Hence smoothed-out wrinkles. Don't go pointing your TV remote at your face though...the technique needs visible light. [Physorg]

So, all you need is some artwork, a laser-etch machine and the urge to burn your fingers. Or, if even that's too creepy for you, the technique also works on artificial nails.

And I know the headline says "not painful"... but if you check out the Instructables link, you'll see that's not strictly true. Aligning laser and nail and avoiding sensitive skin is sometimes not so easy, it seems... as is not cooking your nail because the laser intensity's too high. Watch it, and promise me not to try this body mod either? I'm pretty sure the lid should be down and all safeties engaged on these machines, for a reason. [Instructables]

Over on Instructables this chap has a "how to" guide, so you can try it yourself. Assuming a) you can get hold of a laser-etcher and a helpful operator, b) you can defeat the safeties on the machine designed to stop you doing this and c) you're a total nutcase. Because doing this cooks your skin, frying small parcels of it into vapor. It's basically digital branding, and it exposes your body to mahoosive amounts of laser energy. And it hurts.

Got it? Look at the gallery again, and then promise me you're not going to try it. [Instructables]

HTC did, for one, but their UI isn't quite as good as Pointui. In addition to enabling finger gestures, it also adds skinning on top of the standard Win Mo apps. Clicking the phone app, for instance, gets you a much prettier call log that aggregates calls from the same person into one entry (just like the iPhone). There are still other apps like email and calendar and tasks that aren't skinned—these just go into the regular WM app when active—but are much easier to get to.

The real winner is the system settings, which are made top level (instead of hidden under 3 layers of menus). It doesn't fix everything wrong with Windows Mobile, but it's free and it fixes a lot. We haven't gotten this excited about Windows Mobile in...ever. Holy crap. [Pointui]

As you can see from the gallery, not only can you have Colorware color your console, but they'll even paint the controllers as well. You have to ship them your console for the process—unless of course you buy an entirely new one—but it's sure to come back looking better than ever. Then, if you really want a 120GB hard drive, you can go ahead and install your own hard drive and save $100. As for HDMI, there's supposedly a faux HDMI cable due out for non-Elite Xbox 360s soon. No 1080p, but you do get to use HDMI.

Check out the gallery to see all the gorgeous details. – Jason Chen

Gallery [Gizmodo]

Product Page [Colorware]

Most of the icons are just shortcuts to the equivalent apps on Windows Mobile, but the most impressive thing must be the screensaver and the scrolling. The screensaver lets you whisk your finger to the right to unlock the phone, and the scrolling mimics the finger scrolling on the iPhone. A nice stopover between now and June for those who really can't wait. – Jason Chen

Watch the iPhone interface running on a Pocket PC [Tech Digest - Thanks Jacob!]

iPhone Theme for RAZR [MacSupport via MacNN via myiPhone]

These skins are only for MacBooks and desktop keyboards for now, but we'll let you know if they make more styles. – Jason Chen

Product Page [XSKN]

Update: From what we hear, this company's a bit shady. Buyer beware.

Not just a sticker, these appear to be actual replacement cases for your precious Wii, so prepare for a bit of an install process when setting yours up. They'll be available come January in a yet-to-be-announced array of colors. –Adam Frucci

It's a black Nintendo Wii! [Gadget Candy]

So it's with great fondness that I fire up the Wii's virtual console, jack in the classic controller, and remember the days where pops and I would rock the 2P action until dinnertime. The skin is labeled with Revolution Entertainment System, mashing up the Wii's original name with the "ES" in NES. The labels are guaranteed to not peel, fade, or leave gunk on your Wii if you decide to transform back. And they cost $15 bucks.

The real-life photos of it look pretty good, too:

–Brian Lam

Wii Skin - Retro Revolution [via Uncrate]

SOV 3000 Dragon Skin Bulletproof Vest [Defense Tech]

If you ve ever met a doctor at a party and showed him your rash, you can now take that experience to a whole new dimension and email him pictures of that rash magnified 250x. Giving you all the features you've come to expect in a USB powered magnifier, the Skin Sensor switches between 50x and 250x magnification and comes with software that lets you note the part of the body the image was taken from. You can also save a gallery of images or use it as a web-cam because that s not at all gross. This is from the same catalog that gave you USB powered slippers, by the way.

USB Skin Sensor [Thanko]

If only they had a removable screen! Nice to see all this gear in one handy place, though.

Review: iPod shuffle Accessory Roundup (Part 1) [MacTeens]

Robots get covered in skin [T3]