Have you just bought a new iPad? Or have you had one for a while because one of your awesome mates in the states got a few before the Australian release? Either way, you wanna protect that puppy, and you don't want to look like some slavish styleless techhound doing it. No sir, you are no conformist, afterall, you've just bought an amazing new technology and that puts you ahead of the pack. I think. So here are a fine selection of covers for you to purchase.

To set you apart from the pack, plenty of handmade sleeves are to be found on madeit.com.au and Etsy. The pink woolly one is only $35, and there's a matching iPhone cover on Etsy for US$12. There's felt, tweed and denim numbers as well as ample totes to slip your new treasure in. There's even a sleeve that looks like bacon for US$59.95. Nom.

Dodocase make you look like an intellectual scribbler with their Moleskine-style cover. So instead of a slave to the latest gizmo, you can make out like you're writing the novel the world's been waiting for. US $49.95.

Topshop, as always, have nice cheap on-trend covers, which are really meant for laptops but will gladly house any rectangular device. The khaki leather studded number is a winner. American Apparel cover up - for a change - with a padded nylon shoulder bag.

The ultimate disguise for a shiny new iPad is the tongue-in-cheek International Herald Tribune sleeve, because print is not dead and the iPad is not the ominous ringing deathnell. I think.