Last month at CTIA we got our hands on a ThingSling. More accurately, a ThingSling got stuck to our phone. This elastic strap fixes to the back of any phone with a 3M adhesive. And boy does that thing stick.
We wrote some first impressions of the strap, but now that it’s been a few weeks, I thought I’d go a little deeper on my thoughts. The strap has a rigid plastic frame that anchors the adhesive. It sticks to just about any phone or case, though John Murphy, the ThingSling creator, said it doesn’t stick to silicone used in many phone cases. While it’ll come off easily when I want it off, I haven’t had any trouble with the ThingSling trying to come off the Cygnett Frost Case on my phone. Continue reading Hands On: ThingSling
The U.S. Preventive Medicine’s Macaw has won in the Mobile Applications: Health, Wellness and Fitness category of CTIA’s Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards. Winners were announced earlier this month at the CTIA Wireless 2012 trade who, and the awards are in its seventh year, honoring the industry’s most innovative wireless products and services in the areas of mobile apps, consumer electronics, enterprise and vertical markets and infrastructure. 
Earlier this year at CES we heard about the 
Who hasn’t tried to go running with a mobile phone and wished they hadn’t? A mobile phone or portable music player can be a handful, and everyone has experienced that moment where the handful results in a dropped gizmo. John Murphy had a idea that he turned into the Thing Sling, a simple and low tech solution to ensuring that the device in the hand would stay in the hand. 
There is no shortage of mobile phone cases on display this week at the International CTIA 2012 in New Orleans. The trade show for all things mobile certainly has the phone covered in more ways than one. But anyone who has used a cycle mount and a hard shell knows that the two don’t play well together. The hard shell is ideal for protecting that smartphone on the go, but it seldom fits in most handlebar mounts. 
