Designer iPad Cases

So what if we're only dreaming about owning an iPad at the moment. When we do take the leap, there are plenty of covetable iPad cases to keep our technology safe.

Oscar de la Renta was inspired to make this limited edition case after he got his very own iPad. The embroidered leather case comes in carnation (shown) white, marigold and stone. It's lined in ultra suede and has a snap closure. The Oscar de la Renta iPad case is available online.

Ferragamo offers a calfskin leather iPad case with a practical clutch handle. It comes in mandarin (shown), black and moss. It's also available in canvas with leather trim. Available at Ferragamo stores.

Douney and Bourke's iPad case is made of the company's famed cabriolet fabric, the same that is used on Porsche convertibles. The cases are stain and fade resistant and waterproof for the clutzy among us.

Plastic chips monitor body functions

Each year, about 80,000 people in Germany become seriously ill from occlusions of veins caused by blood clots. Such thromboses can cause pulmonary embolism or even heart attacks. Even airline passengers at long distance flights can be affected by deep vein thrombosis. But with the new system, a fast and easy test of a risk of travel-related thrombosis will soon be possible.

Airline passengers would only have to relinquish one drop of blood to the measuring device. The special feature of this miniscale lab-on-a-chip: the system is designed in plastic for an inexpensive production, sheets or reel-to-reel. This would facilitate cost-efficient manufacturing of disposable diagnostic systems. Such tiny analysis systems are still science fiction. In the EU project DVT-Imp, researchers from eight European countries are developing essential foundations for the laboratory on the plastic chip.

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