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Nowadays, most everyday items are manufactured both with their utility as well as with a user’s comfort in mind. However, while the materials used for manufacturing those items which you’d normally use throughout your daily routine can grip well to dry skin, if your skin happens to get sweaty or oily, then those same items become slippery and consequently harder to utilize, as you’re no longer able to have a solid grip on them. Now, problems with a sweaty or oily skin can include just about anyone, whether that’s console gamers who’s palms tend to become sweaty during long gaming sessions, people who wear earbuds or eyeglasses during workouts, or even people who wear those same items while working on hard jobs that require physical labor. Nevertheless, a company called Setex has recently developed the Setex Grips and Pads, which can be used to fix any slippery-grip issues related to sweaty and oily skins.
The Setex Grips and Pads consist of a range of grip-focused everyday item-attachments that all utilize a patented gecko-inspired anti-slip technology to mimic a geckos’ fibrillar microstructures in order to ultimately provide users with a natural and unprecedented grip along with the best possible comfort for everyday items like gaming grips from console controllers, a pair of earbuds, or even a pair of eyeglasses.
The company’s patented gecko-inspired anti-slip technology closely bio-mimics the microscopic fibrillar setae on a gecko’s toes, which is exactly what helps these small and unique reptiles to climb just about any surface and completely defy gravity.
By utilizing that same patented gecko-inspired anti-slip technology, Setex’s wide range of Grips and Pads are cleverly engineered to ensure people can get a maximum performance while utilizing everyday items such as gaming grips from console controllers, their earbuds, or even a pair of eyeglasses. Thanks to that, Setex’s Grips and Pads can ultimately provide you (as well as any of your family and/or friends) with high-quality, highly-gripping and super-adhesive solutions for all of your everyday items that ultimately allows those same items to stay in place so that you can use them comfortably and with perfect control.
We’ll now talk a little bit more about each of Setex’s different types of Grips and Pads, which include Setex’s Thumbstick Grips, Setex’s Controller Grips, Setex’s Earbud Grips, and Setex’s Eyeglass Nose Pads, for which the company was kind enough to send us a sample of each product for us to review.
So, without any further ado, let’s have a quick review of each product and see what each of these gripping solutions have to offer you.
Setex Thumbstick Grips – Universal Thumbgrips for PS4, PS5, Xbox and Switch Pro
Firstly, for gamers who own more than one type of gaming console, we have the Setex Thumbstick Grips, which are universal gaming thumbgrips for console controlers that can be used to add some extra height and increased radius for an improved accuracy to your thumbs’ positioning.
DESIGN & SPECS
These universal gaming thumbgrips feature a unique Soft-Sleeve Design that increases a user’s comfort while also helping the thumbgrips themselves to conform to the shape of your controller’s stock-thumbstick.
They’re fully-compatible with the latest generations of console controllers, including PS4, PS5, Xbox and Switch Pro controllers.
These universal gaming thumbgrips utilize Setex’s patented gecko-inspired anti-slip technology at their top-side surface, which makes them capable of offering approximately 356% more grip on sweaty thumbs than other competing brands, ultimately providing users with an ultra-strong grip, even on the sweatiest hands.
The Setex Thumbstick Grips are currently available in Low-Rise, Mid-Rise, and also High-Rise size models, which respectively add a 2mm height-increase for a slightly higher but still near-flat height thumb positioning, an added height of 6mm for a medium-height thumb positioning, or ultimately, an added height of 11mm for the highest possible thumb positioning while gaming.
PRICING & AVAILABILITY
The Setex Thumbstick Grips come in sets of two (x2) thumbstick grips per pack, with each pack costing only $12.99. You can get them either in a pack of 2-Low Rise, a pack with 1-High-Rise and 1 Low-Rise, or a pack of 2-Mid Rise thumbgrips.
They’re available in four (x4) different color models: Black, Red, Blue, and Red & Black.
You can order yours online right now, directly from Setex’s corresponding shopping page.
Setex Game Controller Grips – Anti-Slip Controller Handle Grips
Alternatively, you can also browse Setex’s Game Controller Grips, which are non-slip handle gaming grips available in different custom designs for each specific gaming console’s controller that are meant to be applied and cover the handles of your controller, ultimately providing users that are accustomed to playing on one single console with the perfect fit and grip for their controller’s handles.
DESIGN & SPECS
These non-slip gaming controller handles are available in different custom designs for each specific gaming console’s controller so that they can fit those controller models perfectly, including either the PS4, the PS5, the Xbox, the Switch Pro, or the Nintendo Switch Joy Con.
They also utilize Setex’s patented gecko-inspired anti-slip technology at their top-side surface, which makes them capable of offering approximately 356% more grip on sweaty palms / hands than other competing brands, thus providing users with that same ultra-strong grip, just like Setex’s universal Thumbstick Grips, but at a full hand-palm level, of course.
All of Setex’s Game Controller Grips are designed to have a thickness of exactly 1mm, which makes your console’s controller just slightly thicker, while still giving you an amazing and truly unmatched grip thanks to their gecko-like grip-pad surfaces.
PRICING & AVAILABILITY
The Setex Game Controller Grips also come in sets of two (x2) handle pads per pack (2-piece kit), with each pack ranging between $14.99 to $17.99, depending what type of console you need them for.
You’ll find that different console models are available either in one (x1) or a maximum of three (x3) different color models: Black, Red, and Blue.
You can get yours online right now from Setex’s corresponding shopping page.
Setex Earbud Grips
Coming in third, we have Setex’s Earbuds Grips, which are anti-slip earbuds pads for just about any pair of earbuds that provide a natural and unprecedented grip for your current earbuds, even if you happen to wear them while having a sweaty skin (such as during workouts, for example).
DESIGN & SPECS
These anti-slip earbuds pads are available for both wired and wireless versions of the AirPods (including the AirPods, AirPods 3, AirPods Pro or AirPods Pro Gen 2), as well as for other brands of wireless earbuds.
The anti-slip appliable earbuds gripping pads from Setex’s Earbuds Grips also utilize Setex’s patented gecko-inspired anti-slip technology, which ultimately ensures that your earbuds never fall out of your ears (unlike what usually happens with most brands of earbud sleeves or hooks made of silicone or latex, which solely rely on that typical rubbery surface to reduce slippage, so they tend to not work at all whenever they’re wet, as they get quite slippery).
You only require to use 3 pads per each of your earbud for maximum grip,
The Setex Earbuds Grips are designed with a thickness of exactly 0.4mm, which not only ensures that they can fit comfortably within your ears, but ultimately also allows you to easily keep your earbuds firmly in your ears at all times.
Best of all, their sleek design and reduced thickness also makes it possible for your earbuds to still fit perfectly and smoothly inside their dedicated charging case, no matter what brand or model your earbuds might be.
PRICING & AVAILABILITY
The Setex Earbuds Grips come in packs with a set of twelve (x12) anti-slip appliable earbuds gripping pads, and each pack costs just $9.99, no matter what model of earbuds you need them for.
These are available solely in Black for the wireless AirPods models and other brands of wireless earbuds, but are available in three (x3) different color models (Black, Red, and Blue) for the wired Apple EarPods.
You can order yours online from Setex’s corresponding shopping page.
Setex Eyeglass Nose Pads
Last but not least, there’s also Setex’s Eyeglass Nose Pads, which consist of a set of premium anti-slip high-grip eyeglasses nose pads that can offer a super-comfortable and strong grip for your glasses nose pads / pad-arms, even on wet, sweaty, or oily skin. Whether you’re enjoying a book, taking a stroll in the park, or even if you’re working out, Setex Eyeglass Nose Pads are guaranteed to keep your eyeglasses seamlessly in place.
DESIGN & SPECS
These premium anti-slip high-grip eyeglasses nose pads are available in two (x2) different sizing options, which are Kids-Size (6mm by 10.88mm) and Adults-Size (7mm by 16 mm), for which they’re then available in three (x3) different thickness-ranges, from which customers can choose between Ultra-thin (0.6mm thickness), Standard (1mm thickness ), or Thick (1.8mm thickness).
Just like all of Setex’s other anti-slip high-gripping products, the Setex Eyeglass Nose Pads also utilize the company’s patented and proprietary gecko-inspired anti-slip technology, which is what ultimately allows for these anti-slip high-grip eyeglasses nose pads to deliver that comfortable and strong grip for any sort of eyeglasses, no matter a user’s skin-type.
PRICING & AVAILABILITY
The Setex Eyeglass Nose Pads are available either in packs of 5 pairs (10 pads) or packs of 15 pairs (30 pads), which respectively cost just $9.99, or alternatively, $22.99.
You can also order yours online directly from Setex’s corresponding shopping page.
