Skins are low-profile, protective, printed adhesive vinyl "stick-ons" that are applied to the surfaces of a gadget, and are becoming mainstream to personalize all types of portable electronics, from cell phones, Blackberries, laptops, calculators, game systems, MP3 players, ipods, satellite radios, etc.
Skins cover the majority of the device, with specific cut-outs for screens, buttons, keys, etc., and will have pictures, designs and color patterns printed onto them. Mytego.com provides the unique tools for customer-designed skins, where the customer designs all aspects of the skin with their own images and designs, and each one is then manufactured individually, specifically for each customer.
The following are the 10 most popular Apple portable electronic devices that consumers are purchasing for customer-designed, customized Tego skins for, according to Mytego.com, for the month of June 2008:
1. Ipod Nano 2007
2. Ipod Classic 80gb
3. Ipod Touch 8gb
4. Ipod Video
5. Ipod Nano2
6. Iphone 8gb
7. Macbook 13
8. Ipod Nano
This list of devices is compiled, created and released on a monthly basis to indicate the trends of the various devices that consumers are actually using, and those that are shaping the world of customer-designed, personalized skins for portable consumer electronic devices.
About Mytego.com
What's on your skin? Mytego.com is the only company allowing customers the unique opportunity to design and style their own portable electronic devices to reflect each customer's own tastes and preferences, and stand out from the crowd. Its about personal choices. TEGO™ skins are precision cut, protective vinyl stick-ons that go on easy and come off clean, and are designed to fit exactly to any portable electronics. Any handheld electronic device from laptops, iPods, cell phones, and portable game systems can now have a TEGO™ skin for it, designed by the customer. Now, even other cooler stuff can have custom TEGO™ skins made, including board decks, and console game systems like the Nintendo wii, Sony PS3 and Microsoft Xbox 360. Each skin is designed online, in real-time, specifically by the customer, with their own images and designs. Mytego.com then manufactures each one individually, on-demand, and ships them direct to each customer to easily apply it to the outside of their device. In a world full of millions of the same black, white and other limited colors of consumer electronic devices, TEGO™ skins show off the customer's inherent desire to have the power to personalize their own world with their own style.
Sadly, limitations still exist with most skin manufacturers with "premade" off-the-shelf designs as the skin designs have no real relation to what each customer wants or needs to truly reflect their own personal style. There is a significant difference between premanufactured, pre-designed with user designed and created skins; the 'customer-designed' skin. Mytego, is the leader in customer-designed and created skins; they take the design and manufacture of skins one step further with complete customer-designed and personalized skins for their customer's own iPods and other portable electronic devices. Colloquially called the "Tego" skin, mytego provides the on-line tools at mytego.com for all customers to design and create exactly what they want their Tego skin to look like, with absolutely no limitations except that of their own imagination. Users are able to upload images from their own computer or digital camera, use images from the online mytego image library, or create special designs with the online design tools. Mytego then manufactures each one specifically for that person, and ships it promptly to them, after which the customer simply applies it to their device. A Tego skin design reflects the true personal tastes and styles of each and every customer, as they created it entirely themselves. These are the new capabilities of the emerging trend of mass-customization and personalization; the ultimate choice of design and style by every individual person, regardless of what the consumer electronic gadget designer, manufacturer and accessory maker produces.
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