This week at iLounge: The latest recycled iPod cases — black rubber, made from Colombian truck tires — have arrived from the U.K.’s Better Energy Systems, and they’re a blast. Also, companies are continuing to churn out wearable iPod accessories, and we’re continuing to wait for really good ones. We’ve just looked at the latest wearable video display goggles for the iPod, ezGear’s $400 ezVision, a two-screened LCD system with an 8-hour battery for head-mounted iPod video viewing, as well as Koyono’s BlackCoat Work jacket, which lets you hide your iPod away in a pocket and control its playback with buttons in the jacket’s lining.
Several new iProducts were announced this week, including the Tivoli iYiYi audio system, new Targus iPod security locks, the iSkin Claro hard case, Speck’s sneaker-inspired Canvas Sport cases, Digital Lifestyle Outfitters’ FlipFolio, and the Case-mate Patriot cases. Plus, Apple wants $9.99 pricing for full-length movies in the iTunes Music Store (though BusinessWeek says not to expect it any time soon), the iTunes Music Store might offer tracks in the Apple Lossless format, ABC’s free streaming TV shows outperformed the $1.99 episodes on iTunes, and strong sales of new, high-end flash-based iPods could cause a shortage of NAND flash memory.
