iChair: A splendid kickstand case for almost every iOS device

It’s not always easy to catch our attention here at TNW. We see a lot of pitches, we use a lot of products. If you want to get our eye, you need to impress. iChair impresses .

iChair is a protection system for your original iPad or any iPhone. It’s a two-piece design that cradles your device and should prove to leave it well protected, too. Instead of just wrapping your device, the iChair for iPad has two kickstands on the back that can adjust to just about any position you’d ever need. The iPod Touch and iPhone models have a single stand, but work equally as well in portrait or landscape mode.

Inside of the iPad version, there’s a velvet-feeling finish that should leave your iPad totally unscathed. The material of the case itself feels like rubberized-but-soft finish that we’re seeing pop up in a lot of Android phones. It’s grippy enough, without feeling sticky, and leaves your devices easy to hold.

If you want a version for the iPad 2, as I’m sure many of you will, you’re going to need to wait just a bit. The iChair team has a Kickstarter project going right now, and they need your help.

So there you have it. Drop by the iChair site and have a look through the line. If you’re already an iChair owner and want to get early action on the iPad 2 case, back the Kickstarter project. Either way, if you’ve been in the market for a case, the iChair is one of the best we’ve seen.

Meet Windoro, Korea’s new window cleaning robot

Unveiled at CES this year, meet Windoro, a window-cleaning robot from South Korea. While iRobot’s Roomba and Scooba clean your floors, Windoro will clean your windows.

As you may know I love robots, but I also love magnets. And that’s one of the reasons I think Windoro is particularly cool. The robot has two modules that should be placed on opposite sides of the windowpane. The modules hold the robot together using permanent magnet power.

First, the robot moves up, down, then left and right to determine a window’s dimensions. One of its two modules works as the navigation unit and uses accelerometers to navigate and bump sensors to detect obstacles and window frames as it moves along at 8cm per second. The other module cleans using four spinning microfiber pads and a reservoir that dispenses detergent.

Watch a video of it in action, filmed by our friends at IEEE Spectrum Magazine.

Windoro was created by Ilshim Global, a small company from Gyeongsan, South Korean and the Pohang Institute of Intelligent Robotics, or PIRO.

The machine measures approximately 20 centimeters (7.9 inches) on its side and weighs 2.7 kilograms (6 pounds). The bot cleans windows 6 to 25 millimeters thick (0.2 to 1 inch) and is designed for shops and homes, not big buildings.

Windoro will be available in February 2011 in Korea, then first exported to Europe followed by America in April 2011, and will retail for US $400.

SoPhone: The incredibly deceiving iPhone 4 fake

There must be thousands of iPhone 4 knockoffs around the globe but this one is so uncanny I was actually fooled into believing it’s the original.

Meet the SoPhone, the iPhone 4 replica that not only looks like an iPhone, it even has a similar-looking user interface that functions pretty much like the iOS 4 we know and love. Don’t expect it to support the same apps though. It is equipped with a 3.5-inch touch-screen, 4GB of flash storage, dual cameras, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. It doesn’t have the Retina display, and doesn’t use a micro sim but the battery is removable. The dimensions are exactly the same as the iPhone 4 which means all cases and pouches will fit perfectly.

Check out the video below comparing the SoPhone with the original iPhone 4.

The SoPhone can be yours contract-free for only 1380 Chinese yuan (about US $209).