TVs reinforced for those smashing Wii games

TV's have a new problem reports New Scientist. Gamers using the Nintendo Wii are smashing plasma TV screens if the remote slips from their grasp mid-game.

"To make its TV sets less vulnerable, Panasonic is planning to use high-strength CRT glass across its range of flat-screen TVs.

In a demonstration for New Scientist at a seminar in Valencia, Spain, Panasonic hung a 250-gram steel ball on the end of a cord and let it swing 40 centimetres onto a screen to simulate an impact equivalent to the Wii remote being thrown hard at the screen from across a room.

Even after a wince-inducing 1000 strikes on the same spot, the glass remained intact and unmarked."

emily | 7:02 PM | Technology |
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