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Editors' Choice Awards 2007
By Backpacker Staff from Backpacker
Our testers retired five gadgets worth a total of $2,000-plus last season. Reason: Scuffed screen rendered them impossible to use (yep – we hammer stuff). Now, we have a $10 insurance plan. We just slap invisibleSHIELD, a clear plastic adhesive skin, on the screens of all our pricey gadgets, from digital cameras to GPS units to altimeter watches and MP3 players.
“My GPS took a cheese-grater fall on the trail, and the screen suffered no dings or divots,” said an editor who logged nearly 250 scratch-free miles with the unit clipped to the outside of his pack. “Other protective films peel away like dead skin, but this one stays on in the nastiest conditions.”
