“PHONE CASES ARE supposed to be fun, you know?” Sonny Moore, the producer and DJ better known as Skrillex, baron of Bangarang, has thought about this before. “I really like the really crazy phone cases that are out right now. You see the girl’s case that looks like a Starbucks cup, or the Moschino Jeremy Scott french fries. I think that shit’s really fun.”
When he started talking to Google about being the first partner in the company’s new Edition line of cases for Android phones, Moore was bursting with designs. Google had come to him with a wacky idea: Create a small, limited collection of phone cases that were just a little smarter.
The Accessories team set about building a case that uses NFC to identify itself to your phone. It would know exactly which case you put on and when, and send you wallpapers and content to match. “We did, like, 20 designs,” Moore says. His favorite was “like Windows 95—it was a super vaporware one.” Eventually his team and Google’s settled on three, around a single theme: space. The cases are cool and busy in a retro-futuristic way, and they all feel like Skrillex: loud, intense, and a little bit adorable. Every one is individually numbered, with a print of Moore’s signature on the inside.
If you buy one (they’re available in limited quantities and designed only for the Nexus 6, and cost $40 through the Google Store), you’ll get more than just a smiling alien on your phone. You’ll get an ever-changing wallpaper, composed of photos captured by a satellite. Moore and Google actually launched 13 different satellites into the stratosphere just for this cause, each spinning in the atmosphere for about five hours. “Getting a satellite isn’t that hard these days,” Moore says. “It’s just on a balloon.” At night, the wallpaper changes to a constellation map, displaying the stars above your exact location.
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