The 3 Best iPad Cases to Protect Your New Gadget

While everyone else is drooling over the latest Apple delight-the iPad-you, you stylish son-of-a-gun, are already a proud owner. Well, you listen to it is brilliant but you are still terrified to take it out of the box. So you spent at least $500 to not even use the iPad because you are afraid of scratches, dents & possibly breaking it in half. You thought purchasing the iPad was pricey. wait until you need to fix it, if the incident is your own fault.

The answer for all iPad owners, be they fundamentally clever, cautious consumers or a full-blown klutzes leaving paths of destruction, is an iPad case. They have compared the best places to get an iPad case to match your needs.

While plenty of the iPad cases look classy, most of them scream (in the voice of Veruca Salt) "my rich mommy & daddy bought me an iPad & now I am showing it off at Cheerleader practice." See for yourself at Apple Online.

The first place most consumers will think to shop is the Apple Store, online or retail. iPad cases start at $39.95 & go up to $59.95. The styles range from sock & book cover like to resembling trapper keepers & pencil cases. There is a design to fit plenty of personalities. iPad case even has a leaf clover to show off Irish pride & perhaps add additional luck keeping it safe. There is also some sassy colors from purple to neon green.

Last, but our best pick, is Zagg's full body invisibleSHIELD at $39.99. The earlier iPad case options offer some style but no actual protection. Zagg gets right down to business without the sometimes garish bells & whistles. For additional reassurance, the Zagg iPad case site has a video showing an iPad protected by invisibleSHIELD's full body coverage as keys scratch it, nails are dropped on it & it is attacked by heavy duty tools. After all this, it looks like it is scratched up. But time the invisibleSHIELD is pulled off, the iPad remains in ideal condition.

Perhaps you are on a spending spree & need something unlike what someone else will must make your new leading gadget stand out. Check out Etsy's array of handmade iPad Cases. Ranging in cost from $65-108, they offer a few simple but mostly quirky designs. It will feel like Christmas each time you take out your iPad from of these cases. While no else will look like you when you are carrying your iPad in Etsy, you do need to take it out to make use of it, which is not always practical.