My favorite Macworld booth swag so far

Although the quantity and quality of freebies that vendors hand out when you walk past their booth in recent years has diminished, every now and then someone tosses you something that stands out in the crowd. If you're lucky, that item is even useful. Such is the case this year with ElekTex. The company makes electronic fabric interfaces (think iPod-enabled jackets and roll-out fabric keyboards), which is pretty cool in itself. But what I like most about them was the clever little iPod stands they were giving out to everyone. It's not just an iPod stand, though. It will also handle up your phone, PDA, Blackberry, and whatever other gadget you might need to prop up on your desk. It's incredibly handy, actually! I threw up some additional pics on Flickr so you could see how it works.

This little piece of plastic is a product I would actually pay for - and here they are giving hundreds or thousands of them away for free. I'm not sure who is crazier... me for taking such a shine to a piece of plastic, or them for giving away what they could be making a few bucks from!
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