Inexpensive In-Car Entertainment System With SeatBuddy iPhone Stand

Often times, the best things in life are the simple ones. Like an In-N-Out Double Double (animal style, of course) … a day at the beach … or the Snuggie. Recently we came across a brilliant idea for the iPhone … amazing in its simplicity.

Remember the airsickness bag we featured that converts to a convenient iPhone stand for hands-free movie viewing or music listening during airline travel? Well admittedly, using a barf bag to hold your iPhone is a bit uncivilized. So to help you avoid those glaring WTF stares … check out SeatBuddy.

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SeatBuddy is a really simply rubberized iPhone case … with one ingenious twist … attached is a pair of straps. When seated on an airplane, simply hang your iPhone with SeatBuddy over the top of the seat-back tray table for comfortable eye-level viewing. As the video demonstrates … using SeatBuddy is simple and awesome.

Now it gets even better. SeatBuddy includes a set of Velcro tabs that allow the straps to be attached to each other. With this configuration, SeatBuddy can be secured to a treadmill, a glove compartment, the back of a car seat or anywhere you can secure with Velcro.

We love the idea of using SeatBuddy as an inexpensive in-car entertainment system (just watch out for speed bumps and potholes) … where Brother Bob can watch South Park while Sister Sue enjoys iCarly. Check out the videos below of glove compartment and car seat demonstrations.

SeatBuddy is available from the company’s website (not an affiliate link – we hate those) for $23.90 with shipping … quantity discounts are available.

Hopefully SeatBuddy will release an iPad version soon … which would simply be even more awesome since viewing movies and videos on the iPad’s 9.7-inch high-resolution screen is way superior to the iPhone’s 3.5-inch view.

(via Oh Gizmo)

June 7, 2010 | Filed Under News 

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