Marzipan-Look iPhone Cases Appealing or Appalling?
As far as I can make out, these custom-made Japanese iPhone cases are silicone fashioned to look like frosting, turning your device into a frou-frou cake like confection.
Must learn Japanese, however – google translate isn’t cutting it, calling the cases “quite appalling.” Or maybe it’s not a bad translation
Update: kind reader Wonko tells us the word used to describe the cases was “sasumajii”.
Here is the EDICT translation: terrific, fierce, terrible, tremendous, dreadful, awful, amazing, absurd.
So it looks like there’s room for either interpretation…
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Nicole Martinelli is a San Francisco native who has lived in Milan and Florence, Italy. She's written for Wired.com, The New York Times and Newsweek. You can find her on 
