A laptop skin is a precision-cut vinyl adhesive material, usually with some design, photograph, or other image, designed for application to the outside of a laptop, usually on the back of the LCD screen.
Laptop skins are designed to be durable and to give laptops a unique, customized look while also protecting the laptop from scratches and other damage from wear and tear. Laptop skins can also be used for branding purposes, promoting a company name, product, or cause.
Laptop skins come in different materials and quality. Skins are also available for other handheld portable consumer electronics, such as mobile phones and digital audio players, as well as for video game consoles, such as the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii.
Skins are growing in popularity, with many brands licensing their copyrighted images out to the companies selling the skins. The companies that sell these are often purely ecommerce businesses rather than "bricks and mortar" stores. Some companies allow the customer to design their own laptop skin.
Famous quotes containing the word skin:
“... the trouble is that most people in this country think that we can stay out of wars in other parts of the world. Even if we stay out of it and save our own skins, we cannot escape the conditions which will undoubtedly exist in other parts of the world and which will react against us.... We are all of us selfish ... and if we can save our own skins, the rest of the world can go. The best we can do is to realize nobody can save his own skin alone. We must all hang together.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)