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Consumers turn to child-like tech accessories to express playful individuality

Implications - With modern designs often moving toward more minimalist and abstract aesthetics, consumers are often left with products that lack individuality or emotional appeal. Seeking to add more individual expression to everyday items, consumers are turning to toy-like mobile accessories to express creativity. Combining childhood references with modern devices, youthful tech designs allows consumers to connect with their innocence.
Trend Themes
1. Youthful Tech Designs - Consumers are turning to toy-like mobile accessories to express creativity combining technology with childhood references and youthful designs to connect with their innocence.
2. Personalization - Consumers are seeking items that add more individual expression to everyday products, such as through cases designed after endangered species or expressively painted illustrations, driving the trend towards personalization of the technology.
3. Multi-functional Covers - Consumers are increasingly looking for multifunctional accessories, such as iPhone cases that not only offer protection, but also functions like sound amplification, device stand, headphone cord wraps, or even storage and wallet insert, providing multiple solutions in one product.
Industry Implications
1. Personal Tech Accessories - From toy-like mobile covers, plush animal cases, and sound amplifying covers to illustrated and expressive cases, the trend towards personalization and multi-functional accessories will continue to influence the personal tech accessories industry.
2. Kids' Toys and Apparel - The trend towards toy-like mobile accessories, tech-integrating teddies, and plush phone cover designed for children, will continue to shape the kids' toys and apparel industry, and offer opportunities for innovation in combining technology with traditional toys and creating comfort items for children.
3. Art and Design - As consumers seek out expressive and artistic mobile accessories, this trend has the potential to impact the art and design industry, creating opportunities for artists and illustrators to collaborate with tech designers and manufacturers in creating expressive and unique designs to people's mobile devices.
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6 Featured, 52 Examples:
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Date Range:
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Featured Examples

Endangered Animal Covers
Endangered Animal Covers
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There are a lot of different iPhone cases out there, but the ones from Anicase are by far the most adorable way to take care of your device while doing some good for the world. The Anicase covers are… MORE
Amplifying Animalistic Sheaths
Amplifying Animalistic Sheaths
These Rabbit and Donut Horn Cases for iPhone 5 Do Triple Duty
Sometimes the small sound that comes out of an iPhone just doesn’t cut it, which is where the Rabbit and Donut Horn cases can come in handy to effectively amplify the tunes to an optimal level.... MORE
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The iPlush line of plush phone case designs is meant to give extra protection to the iPhone, particularly in the case when younger children want to play with it. The extra cushioning helps absorb... MORE
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Animal Art Mobile Protectors
The Brushstroke Pup iPhone 5 Case from Anthropologie is Charming
The Brushstroke Pup iPhone 5 case from fashion and design retailer Anthropologie celebrates a love of art and animals. This protective mobile accessory makes for an ideal gift that is both charming... MORE
play_circle_filledTeddy Bear Phone Covers
Teddy Bear Phone Covers
This Cell Phone Cover Doubles as Cuddly Teddy Bear
‘Chri-Cha’ is a fluffy teddy bear cell phone cover that doubles as a wallet insert and storage item. Cell phones have become a central part of people’s daily lives. However, non-... MORE
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Tech-Integrating Teddies
The Cocolo Bear Interacts with Children Using a Built-in Smartphone Dock
Following in the footsteps of the iconic Teddy Ruxpin talking animatronic toy from the 80s comes the Cocolo Bear—a stuffed animal with a smartphone dock built right into its chest. Developed... MORE

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