I saw this concept a while ago and thought it was an attractive yet easy to way to keep your cell phone in a charging cradle.
Now, there is a very easy and dead accurate (as for as cosmetic appearance) DIY solution:
zakka life craft project
I believe the bottle used in the DIY project was a skin [...]

I am completely satisfied with my first gen and had no desire to upgrade until I saw the new specs for the 3.0 OS.  The new OS update is schedule for release sometime this summer.  Some of my favorite enhancements:
Copy and Paste (finally!)
MMS (.. only available for 3G compatible phones!)
Spotlight Search
Turn-By-Turn Directions
Push Notification (which hopefully [...]