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If you’d rather spend your time actually using your touchscreen tablet, instead of wasting hours buffing away fingerprints, 3M’s new Natural View Fingerprint Fading Screen Protectors might be just up your alley since—like an old soldier—fingerprints will just fade away.
The company’s a little vague on how exactly its new technology works—most likely because the protectors are probably covered in some magical new chemical coating that’s patent pending—but apparently over time greasy fingerprints on your iPad or Galaxy Tab tablet will just fade away on their own. Which saves you from always having to keep a microfiber cloth on hand, or from squinting through a blurry, gunked-up display. The £17 protectors are also scratch-resistant, and boast a crystal clear finish so you can’t even tell they’re installed—as long as there were no trapped air bubbles during their application. (Easier said than done.) [3M]
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“Easier said than done” indeed – from the link you’ve provided, it doesn’t look like 3M have installed their protector correctly either.
Also, does it irritate anyone else when companies (like 3M in the link provided) change the design of Apple products when advertising their products? Like here, 3M have made minor changes to each of the app icons, most notably on Photos, Videos and the App Store, and they’ve made the bar at the top much larger. In other situations, I’ve seen people make an iPad lookalike by stretching an iPhone 4 into a 9.7 inch 4:3 ratio beast. Why can’t they just post a legitimate picture of the product they are offering/providing for?
Just a guess but could be a legal issue with posting a picture of a legit ipad?
Well, most websites that offer iPad accessories post real pictures of iPads, and I think you can download them from Apple’s website for media use. But that probably is the case, in one form or another.
When can I get this for my car windows?
Just managed to get one of these delivered. Impossible to install cover, unless you ask NASA for a hand. Mine’s full of air bubbles – all’s not lost though – 3M supply you a ‘cardboard’ spatula to erase them – you can imagine how that went. Left me nothing but p!ssed off and frustrated at shelling out £20+. I’ve contacted 3M about this – we’ll see how they respond.
UPDATE: 3M have rapidly apologised for the inconvenience and are sending me another cover to try. Can’t say fairer than that. Now I just need that phone number for NASA…