Unless you carry a Bushmaster Adaptive Combat Rifle around, the Sector 5 Black Ops iPhone cover from Element Case is likely to be the most polarizing accessory you own.
The case is made from a resin called G10 and designed by a company best known for its premium handgun grips, VZ Grips.
The back of the case bears a checkering pattern common to handguns, and it has a rim of machined aluminum that is anodized with a nonreflective coating.
They even throw in a back knurled power button and “tactical holster†for affixing your phone to your belt.
Like many Element Case products, the cost is high: $200. Element Case has made a business of creating expensive covers from premium and exotic materials, like its $200 Ronin case made with a bumpr of resin-impregnated wood.
The weaponized iPhone case certainly courts controversy, but thanks to the remarkably grippy pattern on the Black Ops model, you may not give it up until they pry it from you cold, dead hands.
