Apple announced iPad 2 in a recent event held at in an event held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Since the announcement there’s been quite a flood in the accessories market, you might like to take a peek at what manufacturers have been working on under NDA. Booq is coming out with a nice looking folio case for the iPad 2 that includes a non-digital component — a built-in and replaceable paper notepad. The Booqpad for iPad 2 (below) starts at US$49.95, with a “luxury option” available at $99.95. The notepad sheets are the same size as an iPad 2 screen and are perforated for easy removal. Knowing Dave Caolo’s penchant for cool notebooks, I’ve been asked by his wife Mia to tell him to not buy one of these. Scosche also jumped onto the iPad 2 bandwagon with a whole new line of goodies for the newest Apple tablet. The foldIO P2 ($44.99) is a folio-type case in black or white leather or carbon fiber textured models; it has a suede interior and folds into three different landscape viewing angles. For those who are into rubber, the glosSEE P2 line ($39.99) provides a grippy surface in a choice of five different colors. The snapSHIELD P2 ($29.99) line features those same vibrant colors, but uses hard polycarbonate for protection. Scosche rounded out its announcement with several power adapters, but the $59.99 Scosche freeKEY water resistant roll-up Bluetooth keyboard (below) really caught our attention. Accessory maker Targus leaped into the fray as well, with a new 360° Rotating Stand / Case for iPad 2 ($59.99), a Protective Cover / Stand for iPad 2 ($39.99) and a Protective TPU Skin ($24.99). The 360° Rotating Stand / Case (above) may not have a fun name like all of those Scosche products, but it does feature a hard shell and a mechanism that surrounds the Apple logo which lets the case rotate easily into portrait and landscape positions. AViiQ is bringing its design expertise to a very thin aluminum case with two little kickstands that will hold your iPad 2 in place. The Portable Case Stand for iPad (below) is expected later this month and is priced at an amazingly low $59.99. iSkin wanted you to know that its “fashionable line of sleeves and slings, part of the Q.West Collection,” will all work with the iPad 2, and that it’s adapting the Duo, Vu, and my personal favorite — the Aura folio — to the iPad 2. That collection of Q.West goodies is pictured below. Kensington’s BlackBelt protection – A solid protector for the edges and back of the iPad 2 is Kensington’s BlackBelt Protection Band. The protector has a rubber edge that fits the contours of the tablet, and it “offers all around protection for shock and scratch protection on flat surfaces,” Kensington said in a press release. The band preserves full access to iPad ports and controls, and has openings for the cameras on the front and back. The accessory will be available in April for $39.99 through Kensington’s website. The company is also redesigning its KeyFolio keyboard case to fit iPad 2. The case includes a keyboard and a stand to hold the tablet. KeyFolio will become available in April for $99.99. TouCoul is developing a backseat car mount for iPad 2 called CoolVue. The mount secures an iPad 2 on a seat’s headrest, allowing backseat passengers to use the more comfortably. The mount can be extended up to 10 inches toward the middle of the vehicle so passengers can shoot video using the iPad’s front-facing camera. “Combined with the iPad 2, backseat passengers will be able to easily video chat with family and friends, watch movies, play video games, use applications, and surf the Web — all without uncomfortably holding their iPads,” the company said in a statement. The company said the iPad 2 mount was under development and could not provide a price, but said it would ship around the middle of April. The company is taking orders for a $79.95 mount for the original iPad on its website. That mount will ship on March 15. As time get’s closer to the iPad 2 availability we are sure that we’ll be seeing more accessories announced. Stay tuned for more iPad 2 goodies and info by following us on Twitter and/or by subscribing to our RSS Feed. Related Posts: Authors:

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