iSkin is a company

Company

A company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be...

 based in Toronto, Ontario

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

 mostly known for its iPod

IPod

iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle...

 cases, which it first released in 2002. iSkin has since produced a variety of other accessories such as headphones

Headphones

Headphones are a pair of small loudspeakers, or less commonly a single speaker, held close to a user's ears and connected to a signal source such as an audio amplifier, radio, CD player or portable Media Player. They are also known as stereophones, headsets or, colloquially, cans. The in-ear...

, Macintosh

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

 keyboard

Computer keyboard

In computing, a keyboard is a typewriter-style keyboard, which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys, to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches...

 guards, and Sony PSP cases.

Nine months after the first version of the iPod hit the market, iSkin Inc. released its first silicone protector for the then new MP3 player.

Products

iSkin markets most of its cases as "dual-layered" with an inner silicone

Silicone

Silicones are inert, synthetic compounds with a variety of forms and uses. Typically heat-resistant and rubber-like, they are used in sealants, adhesives, lubricants, medical applications , cookware, and insulation....

 layer and harder outer polycarbonate

Polycarbonate

PolycarbonatePhysical PropertiesDensity 1.20–1.22 g/cm3Abbe number 34.0Refractive index 1.584–1.586FlammabilityV0-V2Limiting oxygen index25–27%Water absorption – Equilibrium0.16–0.35%Water absorption – over 24 hours0.1%...

 layer. They own the trademark

Trademark

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 "Si" to describe this "silicone-inside" design.

iSkin's "Shuffle Duo" case, said to be the first "dual-layered" case for the iPod shuffle

IPod shuffle

The iPod Shuffle is a digital audio player designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is the smallest model in Apple's iPod family, and was the first to use flash memory...

, was awarded the Best iPod Shuffle Case of 2005 by iLounge

ILounge

iLounge is an independent website covering all things related to Apple's iPod, iPhone, iPad and the related iTunes software. Founded by Dennis Lloyd in the days after Apple released their first generation iPod on October 23, 2001, iLounge is a popular source of iPod, iPhone and iPad information,...

.

iSkin has recently focused on the outer appearance of their covers, releasing a variant that showcases illustrations from tokidoki

Tokidoki

tokidoki is the Japanese-inspired lifestyle brand created in 2005 by Italian artist Simone Legno and his business partners Pooneh Mohajer and Ivan Arnold....

 founder Simone Legno

Simone Legno

Simone Legno is an Italian artist best known for the creation of the tokidoki brand. Legno's designs are influenced by his interest Japan and its culture.-Career:...

. iSkin has also been noted for its glow-in-the-dark

Phosphorescence

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 covers.

The company has branched out to create covers for a wider variety of products, including "keyboard covers for virtually everything Apple".

See also

• Speck
  Speck (company)
  Speck is a privately-held U.S. company founded in Palo Alto, California in 2001 as the product division within Speck Design. Speck creates spirited cases for the mobile accessories market. At MacWorld in 2003, Speck released its first case for Apple's iPod...
  
   - Another iPod case company.
• Griffin Technology
  Griffin Technology
  Griffin Technology is a privately held U.S. company founded in Nashville, Tennessee in 1992 by Paul Griffin. The company designs and manufactures computer peripherals, consumer electronics, and accessories, the first products being primarily video adapters, in particular those to enable the...
  
   - A company known for its iPod accessories.
• iPod
  IPod
  iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle...