With the ever increasing costs of education in the country and shrinking budgets it ends up being a lot more practical for a school to spend a few bucks on a TV Screen Protector to protect their LCD and plasma TVs versus having to replace them. Why do I say this? Well one, its pretty obvious:) and two, we have see a large increase in orders from schools across the country in the past few weeks. I guess they are all gearing up for the impending onslaught of kids this Spetember.
We just got a big order from a prison down in Texas. Turns out that the prisoners are a bit rough on the county’s new 32″ plasma TVs. So the county is using some of the prisoners commissary money to buy TV Screen protectors for all the TVs. Hmm, mental note to self, test TV Armor to see if it is shank proof:) Anyway, we are happy to contribute to rehabilitation of the prisoners in the Texas correction system.
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Boy the interesting TV Armor uses just keep coming. We got a big order from a chain of hospitals the other day for our 40″-42″ TV Screen Protectors. Turns out the hospitals use 40″ LCD TVs at their nurses stations to monitor all the patients in that area. Unfortunatly they were breaking them left and right. LCD TVs are very fragile. TV Armor Screen Protectors to the rescue:) One less thing their overworked IT staff has to deal with.
I made a very interesting sale today to the New Mexico Tech Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center which performs research on, and development of “energetic materials” (explosives, projectiles, ballistics) and tools to analyze material interactions. My first thought was “What do you plan on doing with them?” While TV Armor - TV Screen Protectors will stop toys, balls, remotes, games controllers, etc from damaging a TV, we never tried blowing things up in front of it! Turns out they don’t expect it to stop an explosion but they will be used to protect their large monitors from being damaged.
So I got an interesting email the other day from one of our TV-Armor customers;
“Thank you for this product - TV armor. But before I order a TV screen protector, does it provide UVA & UVB protection? I have a skin condition that reacts with blisters to sunlight, halogen & fluorescent lighting. Since we got our new HD LCD TV a week ago, my face is blistered and my eyes are strained.”
Frankly I had never thought about the potential UV blocking properties of Acrylic. I obviously saw the UV blocking specs on our materials specification but I never put it together that this could be an important feature for a segment of the population. LCD and Plasma TVs give off a small amount of UV light. The goverment has regulations on how much light they give off. For someone without UV sensativity, the amounts are so small that they are unlikely to affect you, however if you are UV sensative it could be a real pain.
There are lots of conditions that would cause someone to be sensative to UV Light; an autoimmune disease called Discoid Lupus (DLE) which is a skin and connective tissue disorder. There is also other forms of photo sensitivity, ie: Lupus (SLE), hyperphotosensitivity, photo allergies, burn victims, etc. After I dug into it deeeper we even found a camp for kids with Xeroderma Pigmentosum which is a rare genetic disease. The camp is called Camp Sundown.
Anyway, I called up our material manufacturer and after a bit of digging we determined that our product blocks from 85% to 92% of UV Light in the 250 to 400 nanometer range. This covers the UVA, UVB, and some of the UVC spectrums. This is perfect for people suffering from UV sensativity conditions.
I have a phone call into the Camp Sundown folks to see if there is a way TV-Armor can help out. Either by donating some TV Screen Protectors for their camp or making a monetary donation. Hopefully we can help. If their is a way we can use our TV Screen Protectors to help make someone’s life better… we will find a way to make it happen.
