{"id":6219,"date":"2012-06-06T06:36:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T03:56:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-06-06T06:06:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T00:06:58","slug":"grip-tape-iphon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/grip-tape-iphon\/","title":{"rendered":"Grip Tape iPhone Backing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my first grip tape backing for my iPhone from RF Laserworks in early 2011. I&#8217;d still be using that one if I hadn&#8217;t decided I wanted a new one with custom laser-cut text that featured my website name. Grip tape, if you&#8217;re not familiar, is the stuff skateboarders use to coat their boards so as to increase their traction. Each custom lasercut backing costs $8 while the uncut models sell for $5. Even though I&#8217;ve had to buy two, it&#8217;s still way less than any other case I&#8217;ve bought. <\/p>\n<p>The big advantage of the grip tape backing is that it&#8217;s always with me, as opposed to something like the previously reviewed HandStands sticky pad. I can simply set my phone on my leg when driving and it&#8217;s not going anywhere. The tape is so non-slip I can even put it on my chest, near vertical, and it doesn&#8217;t fall off.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s got its downsides. I can&#8217;t use any case other than one of the bumpers; I like those better but not everyone does. It also means I can&#8217;t slide it into a form-fitting iPhone armband when I go to the gym. But that&#8217;s the same problem I&#8217;d have with any case, and I solved it by buying an armband for a larger droid-style phone.<\/p>\n<p>To get custom text or graphics, all you need to do is send them a stencil and choose the location and they do the rest. I opted for red for maximum visibility.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gives your iPhone grip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}