Eileen over at the brilliantly named “Blogging About AT is Not Procrastinating” blog, has been out shopping and accidentally bought not one but four things she’s figured out make great iPod Touch or iPhone stands. The amazing part is that every one of them cost her less than eight dollars! Here’s just one of her creative ideas:
You can go check out Eileen’s other cheap, easy and creative ways to position and iPod Touch/iPhone, and I also recommend the rest of her blog. I wasn’t aware of it until recently but it’s been added to my “read this” list now and I’ll be checking it regularly as Eileen has good things to say.
And over at Dessinemoiunobject they have a post on making an iPhone/iTouch stand/dock out of paper, complete with a PDF of the pattern ready to print out onto A4 or US Letter size paper. Having taken a look at it, I think you would need to use some medium thickness cardboard to actually make a usable stand – all their pictures showing the stand in use are made of cardboard. It’s a fantastic idea though, and easy to make. Here’s a video showing how:
When I’m not using it, I keep my own iPod Touch in half a plastic envelope that’s taped to the side of my hospital bed like a holster. I started off using a paper envelope but after a month or so it ripped from being used so much, so I made a duplicate using a sheet of plastic designed for an overhead projector. It’s held together, and held to the bed, by duct tape; that stuff really does make the world go around!
Of course some people have positioning requirements that do require expensive and specialised positioning equipment, but for many of us there are creative solutions that can save a lot of money and hassle.
So how do you position your iPod Touch or iPhone?
- Ricky
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I simply mount my iPod touch, flat, on top of my right arm rest of my wheelchair. The iPod touch is in a protective case and the case has Velcro on the back of it which attaches to the Velcro on my armrest. The case is one of those where you can still access the touchscreen and the home button with the iPod touch in it. The iPod touch is also protected with a later of that body guards protective skin.
You can also access the docking port and headphone port through the case. So I have one of those car chargers plugged into the docking port and the other end is plugged directly into my wheelchair battery with an adapter I purchased from the same people who make Vocalize. This way I never have to ask anybody to remove the iPod touch and plug it in for charging.
I absolutely love the iPod touch and now couldn’t live without it!
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