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We all love expressing ourselves whether its through our cloths, our gamertags, our writing or even customizing our consoles. There are quite a few sites dedicated to creating stuff to customize your consoles..usually with decals that you place on it but none have gone as far as this company has. The awesome company I'm talking about is called Colorware. Our awesome guys at GamePro did a write up about this company last year in their May 2007 issue. If you never got to read that article here is an excerpt from it:

Customized console mods? Color us impressed. ColorWare is already known for its high-end laptop and iPod paint jobs. But starting this summer, ColorWare will extend its coloring magic to videogame consoles. We mailed in a PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360 for a test run. ColorWare followed our exact specifications and mailed the consoles back for our approval. The results? See for yourself: clean, professional, and highly detailed colored coats. If you send in your own game system, you'll pay $99 for the coloring service and $25 per controller. Those prices may seem high, but are actually a bargain: ColorWare charges $399 and up for its laptop PC coloring services. To see the full range of 28 color coats, as well as further pricing options, see ColorWarePC.com

Now this company definitely made sure that they do the job right, as a way to make sure your colors lasted they worked with an American chemical manufacturer to create a scratch resistant formula called X2 that gets applied as the final stage in the coloring process in its liquid stage and then is cured with UV light to achieve its superior scratch resistance and clarity which will leave your colors vibrant even if they are in the sunlight because this product can block over 99.8% of the suns UV rays. You also won't find this technology anywhere else because it was created specifically for the ColorWare company. How is that for a guarantee?

The company currently does coloring on all the current Next Gen Consoles except for the PSP handheld which they will start doing sometime this month and you can even get your Guitar Hero 3 Controllers customized!! This company doesn't only do gaming consoles. They do coloring for select MP3 players, Computers, Smart Phones and select Samsung/Pioneer HD-TVs.
Thats the way to make sure you look totally cool and customized when your TV is a one of a kind color and you have all of your gadgets that go with it. Now the thing with the site as stated in the excerpt from the GamePro May 2007 issue is that it can run a little pricey. You can send in your system but you do run the risk of your warranty becoming void because you have it customized but hey that is a risk you take and you can also buy them straight from the site. The TVs are the only product that you obviously have to buy direct from the site. But most of the other stuff you can pretty much send in your own or just buy from the site. Now you Wii Owners will have to send in your Wii if you want it customized but hey that was a give in with the shortage of the system in stores.

I may send in my DS to get customized like that awesome picture up there. To bad they don't do logo designs on there for you because having my DS say GameGirl on the cover would be so sweet! I will get back to dreaming now.

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