Many of us purchased (or were gifted) new smartphones. Many with new smartphones have the new iPhone 6S or iPhone 6S Plus. Like the iPhone 6, the newer version can be a little slippery – it’s rather thin and without sharp edges. Now it’s time to find suitable protection for it, as no one wants to experience that uh-oh moment when your iPhone slips out of your hand and goes falling to the hard floor. Smart Battery Case Apple Silk Innovation PureView Case with Customizable-Backpanel Pong Sleek Case Leather Wallet Case Incipio Feather Shine Incipio Edge Chrome Casetify Acme Charge Case Alto Case Radius v2 Tech Armor Active Series We’ve made a list of the top choices. Any favorites that are left off? Incipio Feather Shine is a sophisticated case made of rigid ABS polycarbonate frame with a premium brushed aluminum style finish. It protects the device against dents and scratches while looking dashing. It’s available in six colors on Incipio’s website. Incipio Edge Chrome mixes durable protection with fashionable flair. Its frame is made of Plextonium™ polycarbonate that covers all edges. Moreover, the case is comprised of two-piece sliding design for docking and device removal. Silk Innovation PureView Case is an ultra slim protective case against drops, dings, and scratches. It combines a sleek, shock-absorbent rubber bumper with a crystal clear polycarbonate back shell. Users can personalize it through customizable inserts that fit behind the clear back shell. Casetify also allows its customers to turn their photos into a case, besides the designer collection. Radius v2 looks like a stripped down bumper with snap-on convenience that protects the corners and rear of the iPhone, the areas most susceptible to damage when dropped. This minimal design makes Radius v2 extremely light. Color options include...

Alongside the evolving smartphone industry develops another one: accessories for these can’t-live-without devices, and particularly smartphone cases. Most of them are meant to protect the smartphone in case you drop it, other are designed with a heightened sense of fashion and put vibrant colors and intricate patterns on it, some add juice to the battery life, some add protection to the holder, while others add physical keyboards for those less attracted to the touchscreens. The possibilities seem endless. Nikola Labs, an Ohio-based company, has found the way to build a case for iPhone 6 that converts RF (radio frequency) energy to DC power, in other words it pulls battery power out of thin air. Incredible? It sure sounds so, but behind this magic trick there is a scientific explanation and an issue in meeting your great expectations after reading up to this point. According to Nikola Labs co-founder Dr. Rob Lee, over 90 percent of the smartphone’s energy is lost into the environment while spending it to forge data and voice connections by using radio frequencies. Besides protection, the case has a harvesting antenna and a RF-DC power-converting rectifier circuit that through Nikola Labs’ formula can be collected and redirected to the battery life. However, this can only add about thirty percent of battery life to your iPhone 6; this is a slow process as well. On the positive side, as long as the case is connected to the smartphone, the process of collecting and reusing the wasted energy is ongoing. This translates into a slower battery depletion and not into a sudden burst of charging process. The case doesn’t have an internal battery or the capacity to store the energy, thus having a thinner figure than the already popular Mophie case. The company...