Mytego Unleashes Creativity Tools to Rock Star Wannabees with Customer-Designed Tego Skins for the Guitar Hero 3 Controllers
Winnipeg, MB (PRWEB) November 15, 2007 -- Mytego.com announced that customer-designed and individually manufactured Tego Skins for the recent launch of Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock guitar controllers are now available online at mytego.com (http://www.mytego.com). Rock-Star wannabees can now design and create their own 'skin' to make their newest Guitar Hero controller reflect their own tastes and personal styles and make it look like their own, with their own personal designs, patterns, and photos.
Skins are low-profile, protective, printed adhesive vinyl stick-ons that are applied to the top of a gadget, and are becoming mainstream to personalize all types of portable electronics, from cell phones, smart phones, laptops, calculators, game systems, MP3 players, ipods, satellite radios, etc. Skins typically cover the majority of the device, with specific cut-outs for screens, buttons, keys, etc., and usually have pictures, designs and color patterns printed onto them. Skins can either be premade or predesigned, where the customer simply selects the device and image with no input from the customer, as well as customer-designed, where the customer designs all aspects of the skin.
Tego skins are customer-designed online entirely by the customer, and individually manufactured by mytego.com. As a result of this unique manufacturing and design process, every single guitar hero player can create their own ultimate design for their own guitar hero controller. The customer selects their guitar hero controller; they are then able to design and view their own creation in real-time with the online template. They then preview their design and complete the purchase in a secure web environment. Through advances in manufacturing developed internally, Mytego then produces each skin individually for each customer order, and sends it to them, for the customer to apply to their own device. The costs for a customer-designed Guitar Hero 3 Tego Skin is $20, with a standard $3 shipping charge worldwide.
Doyle Buehler, President of mytego and a self-confessed guitar-hero fanatic, believes that "the customer-designed Tego Skin for the Guitar Hero guitar controller completes the fantasy of being your own rock star in your own rock band, as our customers can create a tego skin to apply to their controller with absolutely any design, including pictures of their band, their logo, or plain old fun stuff". He continued in jest, "they can even put a photo of their boyfriend or girlfriend on it, so that when they get hassled about playing too much, they can say that they are still thinking about them".
While the recent release of the newest Guitar Hero 3 controller does in fact have the capability to have interchangeable faceplates, similar to the late 1990's technology from cell phones, these faceplates are predesigned by the manufacturer with no creative input from the customer; Tego skins however allow the user to completely design their own skin online. This demographic group demands a higher level of customization that a pre-made faceplate does not provide. "Customers are demanding higher and higher levels of customization and personalization", Buehler continues, "mytego is the leading company providing all of our customers with the unique ability to design everything themselves - only our customers can decide what looks good to them, and they can do this with the Tego skin".
Mytego offers all of the original Guitar Hero controllers online, starting with the Official Red Octane Activision Guitar Hero 2 controllers for the Sony Playstation 2 (http://www.mytego.com/Tegobuilder/SelectFace.aspx?DeviceId=1382), the Microsoft Xbox 360 (http://www.mytego.com/Tegobuilder/SelectFace.aspx?DeviceId=1397), and the Activision Red Octane Wireless Controller for the Sony Playstation 2 (http://www.mytego.com/Tegobuilder/SelectFace.aspx?DeviceId=1563).
Mytego also now has the online templates available to their customers for all of the currently released guitar controllers for Guitar Hero 3, Legends of Rock, including the Sony Playstation 3 Activision Red Octane Wireless Les Paul Guitar Controller (http://www.mytego.com/Tegobuilder/SelectFace.aspx?DeviceId=1575), the Sony Playstation 2 Activision Red Octane wireless Kramer Striker guitar controller (http://www.mytego.com/Tegobuilder/SelectFace.aspx?DeviceId=1574), the Microsoft Xbox 360 Activision Red Octane wireless Les Paul guitar controller (http://www.mytego.com/Tegobuilder/SelectFace.aspx?DeviceId=1576), and finally the Nintendo Wii Activision Red Octane Les Paul guitar controller (http://www.mytego.com/Tegobuilder/SelectFace.aspx?DeviceId=1573).
For Christmas gift giving, and for those who may be unsure as to what actual console system or guitar controller that is used, customers can also purchase custom made gift cards (http://www.mytego.com/Tegobuilder/CustomizeFace.aspx?maskName=_Giftcard_gamingconsole_23bucks_1.swf&face=1), for the value of the guitar hero controllers at mytego.com. The gift card recipient can then return to the mytego.com website to design their own tego skin for the guitar hero controller, or anything else on the site. These specially customizable gift cards can also be designed by the customer, to include any uploadable picture, text etc. which is then printed onto a credit card style plastic card.
About Mytego.com (http://www.mytego.com)
What's on your skin? Mytego.com is the only company allowing customers the unique opportunity to design and style their own portable electronic devices to reflect each customer's own tastes and preferences, and stand out from the crowd. Its about personal choices. TEGO? skins are precision cut, protective vinyl stick-ons that go on easy and come off clean, and are designed to fit exactly to any portable electronics. Any handheld electronic device from laptops, iPods, cell phones, and portable game systems can now have a TEGO? skin for it, designed by the customer. Now, even other cooler stuff can have custom TEGO? skins made, including board decks, and console game systems like the Nintendo wii, Sony PS3 and Microsoft Xbox 360, and the Guitar Hero controllers. Each cell phone skin and other portable electronics skins are designed online, in real-time, specifically by the customer, with their own images and designs. Mytego.com then manufactures each one individually, on-demand, and ships them direct to each customer to easily apply it to the outside of their device. In a world full of millions of the same black, white and other limited colors of electronic devices, TEGO? skins show off the customer's inherent desire to have the power to personalize their own world with their own style.
Sadly, limitations still exist with most skin manufacturers with "premade" off-the-shelf designs, as the skin designs have no real relation to what each customer wants or needs to truly reflect their own personal style. There is a significant difference between premanufactured, and customer-designed and created skins. Mytego, is the leader in customer-designed and created skins; they take the design and manufacture of skins one step further with complete customer-designed and personalized skins for their customer's own iPods and other portable electronic devices. Colloquially called the "Tego" skin, mytego provides the on-line tools at mytego.com for all customers to design and create exactly what they want their Tego skin to look like, with absolutely no limitations except that of their own imagination. Users are able to upload images from their own computer or digital camera, use images from the online mytego image library, or create special designs with the online design tools. Mytego then manufactures each one specifically for that person, and ships it promptly to them, after which the customer simply applies it to their device. A Tego skin design reflects the true personal tastes and styles of each and every customer, as they created it entirely themselves. These are the new capabilities of the emerging trend of mass-customization and personalization; the ultimate choice of design and style by every individual person, regardless of what the electronic gadget designer, manufacturer and accessory maker produces.
Mytego.com is based out of Winnipeg, Canada and has licensed operations in Europe. Worldwide distribution of TEGO? skins is accomplished through a unique, patented online design studio that operates in over 7 languages. Mytego.com is a world leader in innovative, on-demand, mass-customization and has developed a complete patented production system that allows for individual manufacturing with infinite customer choices, with similar economies of traditional mass-production manufacturing where the customer receives very limited or no choices for personalization.
Mytego is providing the tools to allow people to distinguish their own stuff from the other millions of the exact same things out there.
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