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Gray Matter

Plate Your 'Pod

How do you keep the back of your iPod clean? Sandpaper and electricity

by Mike Walker: Photo by Mike Walker
I think Apple sells fantastic objects that look like they came from the future. And apparently, in that future we all live in velvet rooms and have no fingers-there´s no other way to explain the ultra-shiny mirrored backside of my new iPod nano, which got scratched and grungy with fingerprints in exactly three seconds. So I gave it a nifty scuff shield and, while I was at it, my own logo, using a superthin layer of electroplated copper.

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