Murphy's Law states that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Everyone needs protection, whether it's a seat belt, a life vest, or a Samurai sword. This especially holds true with electronic devices, one of the most vulnerable of which is the touch screen. Screens like the display on your PDA and the monitor you draw on with your tablet PC, are in constant danger of smudges, dirt, scratches, and even cracks from gouges! NuShield has come up with protection that is cheap, reusable, disposable, and most importantly, works well! Jump in for more details...
The problems are all too common. You leave your keys in the same pocket as your PSP: Hellooo Scratch City! - Your friend uses his greasy finger as a stylus on your PDA: Welcome to Smudgeville! - The coffee in your car's cup holder splashes onto the screen of your in-dash navigation system, you get the idea....
There are a range of solutions out there to protect your screen. The trouble is that it's difficult to find one without drawbacks.
Some need to have water applied to them in order to glue them onto the screen..... Water? No thanks!
Others make it hard for touch sensitive screens to track where you are tapping, which means when you wanted to press the "Save" button, you accidentally pressed the "Don't Save (and lose all your work)" button.
Still others apply like a sticker that can stretch or pull from stylus use, leave air bubbles trapped underneath the screen and make removal a sticky mess.
NuShield has created a solution that registers taps accurately on a touch screen, is non-adhesive, durable, and most importanly, protects well!
We had the chance to review the protector for the HTC TyTn II (otherwise known as the AT&T Tilt). The NuShield protector is installed by peeling off a protective plastic "skin" from the plastic screen itself, and then sliding it underneath the edges of the screen border. The protector itself is not a perfect rectangle, but rather has a "bowed" middle to help it stay in place on top of your screen.
The protector has a glossy finish which provides a smooth motion when using a stylus. Usually, a glossy finish would make seeing the screen difficult in a well lit situation. NuShield has already thought of this and has designed their screen protectors with an anti-glare coating that makes viewing the screen easy, even in brightly lit conditions.
We tried scratching it up by rapidly moving the stylus back and forth across the screen, using a fingernail as a stylus, even using keys!! No luck.... The keys did leave a tiny hairline scratch at the end of our testing, but it was barely noticeable, and didn't affect viewing the screen.
The one drawback the Nushield has is also one of it's advantages. Because it's not an adhesive solution, dust can get trapped between the screen and the shield. After about two weeks of use, the screen was cluttered with more dust than a pack rat's basement. We had to remove the shield to clean the dust off of it as well as the screen. After cleaning both the screen and the NuShield, they both looked as good as new.
Overall we are very satisfied with NuShield's solution, and intend to replace all our Samurai swords with them shortly.
12/17: NuShield Screen Protector
Murphy's Law states that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Everyone needs protection, whether it's a seat belt, a life vest, or a Samurai sword. This especially holds true with electronic devices, one of the most vulnerable of which is the touch screen. Screens like the display on your PDA and the monitor you draw on with your tablet PC, are in constant danger of smudges, dirt, scratches, and even cracks from gouges! NuShield has come up with protection that is cheap, reusable, disposable, and most importantly, works well! Jump in for more details...
The problems are all too common. You leave your keys in the same pocket as your PSP: Hellooo Scratch City! - Your friend uses his greasy finger as a stylus on your PDA: Welcome to Smudgeville! - The coffee in your car's cup holder splashes onto the screen of your in-dash navigation system, you get the idea....
There are a range of solutions out there to protect your screen. The trouble is that it's difficult to find one without drawbacks.
Some need to have water applied to them in order to glue them onto the screen..... Water? No thanks!
Others make it hard for touch sensitive screens to track where you are tapping, which means when you wanted to press the "Save" button, you accidentally pressed the "Don't Save (and lose all your work)" button.
Still others apply like a sticker that can stretch or pull from stylus use, leave air bubbles trapped underneath the screen and make removal a sticky mess.
NuShield has created a solution that registers taps accurately on a touch screen, is non-adhesive, durable, and most importanly, protects well!
We had the chance to review the protector for the HTC TyTn II (otherwise known as the AT&T Tilt). The NuShield protector is installed by peeling off a protective plastic "skin" from the plastic screen itself, and then sliding it underneath the edges of the screen border. The protector itself is not a perfect rectangle, but rather has a "bowed" middle to help it stay in place on top of your screen.
The protector has a glossy finish which provides a smooth motion when using a stylus. Usually, a glossy finish would make seeing the screen difficult in a well lit situation. NuShield has already thought of this and has designed their screen protectors with an anti-glare coating that makes viewing the screen easy, even in brightly lit conditions.
We tried scratching it up by rapidly moving the stylus back and forth across the screen, using a fingernail as a stylus, even using keys!! No luck.... The keys did leave a tiny hairline scratch at the end of our testing, but it was barely noticeable, and didn't affect viewing the screen.
The one drawback the Nushield has is also one of it's advantages. Because it's not an adhesive solution, dust can get trapped between the screen and the shield. After about two weeks of use, the screen was cluttered with more dust than a pack rat's basement. We had to remove the shield to clean the dust off of it as well as the screen. After cleaning both the screen and the NuShield, they both looked as good as new.
Overall we are very satisfied with NuShield's solution, and intend to replace all our Samurai swords with them shortly.