Mobile phone socks. The most pointless invention in the history of modern technology? Far from it. Though the idea of mobile phone socks sounds rather like a sort of twisted 21st century version of all those teddy bear’s tea parties you used to have when you were a kid (mobile phone socks? Dressing up your mobile phone? In socks? Whatever next?), it is, in fact, a cheap and rather ingenious way of protecting the most-used piece of technology in your life from the vicissitudes of everyday wear and tear.
Mobile phone socks are, simply enough, little flexible cases, built of all sorts of fabrics, that snugly fit over your phone and stop it getting scratched, smashed and damaged. Mobile phone socks, obviously, won’t withstand a blow from a hammer or a direct hit by a bus (neither, for that matter, will the person whose mobile phone socks are getting such treatment): but they will prevent your screen from becoming unusable, the buttons on your phone from getting clogged with pocket gunk and the pretty shiny casing from becoming scratched or dulled.
You know how, when you buy a new phone, you spend weeks not taking the little removable bit of plastic off the screen? Mobile phone socks mean you can do that forever. Mobile phone socks will stop your screen from getting marked in any way: a lot of mobile phone socks even let you see the screen through them, by dint of a well-placed plastic window. You don’t need to buy branded mobile phone socks to ensure that the window fits your screen, either – most mobile phone socks are made by companies who build ranges for each popular brand of phone, the specifications of which will be listed on the packet. Not even the funkily-minded have cause for alarm: mobile phone socks are cheap enough that you can change them daily, if you want, making a fresh statement in every lesson.
