The Marshall Bergman range is a collection of bags, claiming to have the ‘First lady of cool’ look – whatever that is.

The handbag designs are made from Italian leather and include lots of pockets and dividers to fit in a range of Apple products.

The bags are available from Apple UK online from 7th October 2011, priced from £65.

Other of my favourite designer accessories include Liberty London’s Betsy business bag, Orla Kiely’s car park tall tote and Paul Smith’s rose print iPhone 4 case.

To enter the competition, simply do the following:

1. Follow our new Twitter account, @Witch_Tech

2. Tweet: ‘RT to win: I’ve entered the @Witch_Tech competition to win an iPad/iPhone 4 skin’ [choose which one you want]

The deadline to apply is Monday 31st January 2011 at 10pm.

A winner will be selected at random and will be contacted via Twitter. If I don’t hear back from the winner a week after being contacted, I will choose someone else at random.

The designs for the skins are as shown in the images.

Good luck!

Gadget Glamour is Witch Tech’s website of the week. Having proved popular in the US, Gadget Glamour has finally launched in the UK. The skins for Apple’s iPads, iPhones, iPods and Macs have matching downloadable wallpapers and come in a range of 30 artwork designs. Designs can even be custom-made.

The adhesive skins are made from vinyl and come with a matte or gloss finish. This protects your gadgets from scratches too, which is a godsend for my poor iPhone, which always ends up at the bottom of my handbag.

Prices start from £10 for an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 skin.

VERDICT: Witch Tech got sent a couple of skins to try out. I’m always a little wary of sticking stickers on my preciousgadgets. Not only am I completely clumsy and anticipate to make a bodge job of glamming up my stuff, what if I change my mind about the design?

What’s good about Gadget Glamour’s stuff is it comes with idiot-instructions on how to apply them. The vinyl skin actually does more than look good, it protects gadgets from scratches (which is a godsend for my poor iPhone that always ends up atthe bottom of my handbag).  AND, the skins peel off beautifully so they won’t leave a sticky, gluey residue behind when you want to change it up again.

I reckon Gadget Glamour should extend beyond Apple products, though.

COMPETITION TIME: Witch Tech is giving away one iPad and one iPhone skin from Gadget Glamour. Details on how to enter will be posted on Friday 21st January 2011.

At this year’s 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Polaroid have unveiled its Polaroid Grey Label, co-designed by the one and only, Lady Gaga.

Polaroid Grey Label Line includes the GL10 instant mobile printer, GL30 instant digital camera and GL20 camera glass.

“I consider myself to be a visionary, not just a songwriter and a singer. I am an artist,” said Lady Gaga, Polaroid’s creative director.

“I brought my vision and love of fashion, technology and obsession with the future into all my work with Polaroid.”

“Polaroid has put a pair of Lady Gaga’s trendy big pants over its sagging bottom in the hope that fresh young faces will grab for its vintage product”

Polaroid said the product line stems from “griege goods”, a fashion-industry term for fabric in its purest form. The company said the line encompasses Polaroid’s heritage of delivering simplicity with the style, wit and sensibility of Lady Gaga.

The glasses are my favourite. My favourite comment is from YouTube user Amalgamation25, which reads, “Polaroid is a dead technology just like lady Gag.” Something to ponder.

Polaroid has put a Lady Gaga’s trendy big pants over its sagging bottom in the hope that fresh young faces will grab for its vintage product.

My bet is for Lady Gaga’s next shocker outfit to be made from retro Polaroid cameras while she sings an adapted version of Paparazzi.

We are the crowd, we’re c-coming out
Got my [Polaroid] flash [unit] on it’s true, need that picture of you
It’s so magical, We’d be so fantastico
Grey Label Line, garage glamorous
Not sure what it means but this photo of us
It don’t have a price, ready for those flashing lights
Cause you know that baby I

I’m your biggest fan
I’ll follow you until you love me, Pola-polaroid
Baby, there’s no other superstar
You know that I’ll be your Pola-polaroid
Promise I’ll be kind, but I won’t stop until that boy is mine
Baby you’ll be famous, chase you down until you love me Pola-polaroid.

See a video of Lady Gaga’s announcement at CES 2011 below.

See here for a photo gallery of the development process. Product photos and reviews to be published on Witch Tech soon.

Lead image sourced from Maximum PC.

I have never browsed the internet for underwear and then wished a model with my proportions could model the items before I made a purchase decision. But clearly some people have wished so because website, Knickerpicker.com provides a modelling service for all your underwear needs.

Knickerpicker say the site is an online dressing room, allowing you to interactively try before you buy. It sells underwear from a variety of labels including, Sloggi, Triumph, Gossard and Wonderbra.

In this month’s Wired magazine (December issue, p.48), the site is described: “This lingerie site offers visitors a virtual try-out. Shoppers can drag items on to one of the six real-life models that most resembles their body shape, then watch her walk around. It now gets 3,000 visitors a day despite low-key marketing.”

With a full screen, HD view and 3,000 visitors a day, the question remains: Is this really a service for women or an excuse for men to watch women parading around in their underwear?

Samsung’s new Tic Toc, motion-controlled MP3 player is aimed at young ladies with a penchant for a fashion accessory and offers 12 hours playback for only £39.99.

Georgina Franklin of Samsung told Pocket Lint, “The Samsung Tic Toc is perfect for young women who want the latest fashion gadgets. With so many features on such a small MP3 player, it really is the latest must have colourful and fun accessory for music fans”.

LatestGadgets.co.uk concluded, “With a 2GB version at £39.99 and a 4GB option also available, the Tic Toc is set firmly at the iPod Shuffle crowd, coming in a few quid cheaper than Apple’s offering, but its candy colours and cute design (plus its novel control system) will definitely help it appeal to a younger crowd.”

While Electric Pig praised its design, “The Samsung TicToc makes the special edition iPod shuffle look positively boring.”

It’s due for release in September and is also available in pink, blue, black – or even with a Hello Kitty theme. I say no more; it’s cheap and cheerful and a must for tech-loving, fashion-conscious tweens.

Miss Win It! is a brand new entertainment website offering the chance to win ‘money can’t buy experiences’. Prizes include exclusive shopping events with Top Shop and stylist to the stars, Terry James Lynch as well as backstage passes for red carpet film premieres (and chance to meet Eastenders soap stars, if you’re that way inclined).

For your chance to win one of these fabulous prizes simply log on to www.misswinit.com to enter your favourite competitions.

How to enter:

1. Free – free to enter, but for each competition you only get one go per person

2. Multiple Choice – for £2, you can enter premium competitions with bigger prizes, extra perks, and you can enter as many times as you like. You need to answer a simple multiple choice question

3. Predictorama – it’s the classic ‘How many sweets in the jar?’ estimation game. Entry costs £2 and you can enter as many times as you like to increase your chances of winning. The person who gets the answer correct (or is the nearest) is the winner.

Check out www.misswinit.com for the chance to win.

You’ll need to sign up as a Groupla subscriber today to receive their email alerts (although you can ditch these once you’ve bagged your sparkly iP4). Wait for links to be posted to you. Then, you’ll have the opportunity to grab one at 9.30am tomorrow (2nd July) morning.

Mark Pearson, managing director of Groupola, told The Guardian, “Given that the iPhone 4 sold out through pre-orders alone in just 48 hours through the Apple store, we thought it was only right to offer loyal Groupola.com discount hunters another bite of the cherry. We’ve proved that the concept of group buying can work within the UK.

“My advice is to open the link the second the clock ticks over at 9.30am – by 9.31am you may already have been too late,” adds Pearson.

Groupla are able to offer such low prices through group-buying, a phenomenon happening all over the internet at the moment (great article by Dork Adore about group-buying).

Mouse-clicking index finger at the ready…

1. Desire to Inspire

One Canadian lady and one Australian woman have combined forces and interior design passions to form, DesiretoInspire.net. This wonderful blog shares inspiring interior design. It really is the most consistently inspiring stuff I’ve seen.

2. Alkemie

Karen Olivia from California in the US writes blog, Alkemie and brings homes & interiors gems at the peak of chic to her readers’ attention.

2. Creature Comforts

With a motto to provide ‘design and inspiration for all creatures great and small’, editor Ez celebrates the details of design. My favourite posts are the simple collection of images in ‘Inspiration Daily’.

4. The Scoop

The blog for shop, Orange Beautiful, this site is a mix of interior, graphic and, generally, interesting design work.

5. Urban Grace Interiors

I’ve chosen this one for all the fantastic photography on here. Have a look for yourself.

First published on Your Gaff

As reported by The Guardian’s Charles Arthur, owners of Apple’s latest innovation are turning to duct tape or nail polish in light of antenna problems.

To celebrate the verstaility of nail polish and it’s new found glory in the technology industry, here is a list of its other uses (beyond being nail, er, polish):

1. Screens: Repair small holes in window screens by applying several layers of clear nail polish. Or, for bigger holes, stitch the hole closed with fine wire or nylon thread, says South Bend Tribune
2. Tights: Stop that ladder in its tracks; apply clear nail varnish to laddered tights to stop the hole getting bigger (disclaimer: please allow to dry before dressing)
3. Contrary to old wives tales, don’t put nail varnish on ticks (or any other living creature for that matter)
4. Match your gadgets: Dell offers nail polish colours to match their consumer laptops through a partnership with renowned nail lacquer maker OPI
5. Make your new £499 iPhone 4 work without holding it in a certain way: Add a dab of nail polish, and, boom, signal is restored

Got any more uses? Drop Witch Tech a line.