Apple has partnered with artist and designer Bailey Hikawa on a brand new MagSafe iPhone grip “designed with accessibility in thoughts from the bottom up.” The $69.95 Hikawa Cellphone Grip & Stand is out there from the Apple Retailer now, however is listed as a restricted version.
The stand is available in both Brat inexperienced or a speckled stone end from Apple, although there are additionally blue and swirly blurple choices obtainable from Hikawa’s own store, and is made out of soft-touch silicone. It attaches to the iPhone magnetically, doubles as each a grip and a stand, both horizontally or vertically, and was designed with “direct enter from people with disabilities affecting muscle energy, dexterity, and hand management,” based on Apple.
The grip was designed “to help various methods of holding iPhone whereas lowering the trouble wanted to maintain it regular,” Hikawa says, although acknowledges on her personal website that “not each adaptive want will be met with one system.” The artist, who was profiled by The Verge in 2019, runs a studio in LA the place she produces chunky, structural cellphone circumstances alongside… decorative toilet seats.
“There’s this pleasure that I really feel when any person says that that is useful, that they’ll’t stay with out it, that it’s comfy of their hand, that they’ll’t consider that they’ve by no means skilled this,” Hikawa told Elle Decor. “That is the start of many extra choices for every kind of our bodies.”
Apple says the brand new grip is meant to mark 40 years of accessibility work on the firm. It’s the second accent partnership in as many weeks, following a knitted crossbody phone case produced along with Issey Miyake.
