http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996583
"The color LCD screens on cellphones and PDAs can get badly scratched in pockets stuffed with loose change...And CDs get scratched in no time at all...Now a tough, transparent polymer coating developed by chemists in Japan is set to make scratched phone screens and scuffed discs a thing of the past...
In one of the most convincing technology demonstrations this reporter has witnessed, I was handed a CD, a wire-wool pan scourer and some permanent marker pens, and invited to scratch or mark the discs. Hard as I tried, I could not make a single mark on the disc with the scourer. And the ink simply wiped off..."
Yayyyy, I guess that means soon I won't go nuts every time I scratch my glasses.
"The color LCD screens on cellphones and PDAs can get badly scratched in pockets stuffed with loose change...And CDs get scratched in no time at all...Now a tough, transparent polymer coating developed by chemists in Japan is set to make scratched phone screens and scuffed discs a thing of the past...
In one of the most convincing technology demonstrations this reporter has witnessed, I was handed a CD, a wire-wool pan scourer and some permanent marker pens, and invited to scratch or mark the discs. Hard as I tried, I could not make a single mark on the disc with the scourer. And the ink simply wiped off..."
Yayyyy, I guess that means soon I won't go nuts every time I scratch my glasses.
