This decade will become known — I believe — as the era of the display. If it isn’t the hi-def plasma TV we bought to watch the Super Bowl on, it’s the widescreen LCD display we do all our surfing on. Or the little screen on our iPhone or the viewer on our latest digital camera.

Whatever it is we’re looking at, it’s going to get smudged up. You’re either going to be pointing out with taquito-grease-laden fingers how the play should have gone to your buddies or you’re going to find yourself struggling to watch Chad Vader Episode 8 — the final episode — through a nose print.

That means grimy looking displays that will gross out anybody but us or our small children. You need an appropriate cleaner to keep those surfaces shiny.

Yet, I have a sweetheart with a sensitive nose. Use the kind of cleaner on equipment that my mother would have found perfectly acceptable, and it’ll cause nasal distress in my household. Not a pretty sight.

That’s why I was delighted to find out about Purosol, a company that makes display cleaners that are alcohol, detergent and solvent free. In other words, it’s non-toxic. You can buy it in tiny purse-sized kits or honkin’-big super-soaker-sized bottles.

Yes, using this product is slightly more expensive than spitting on a tissue and wiping with a gentle hand. But you have to think about it as an investment in preserving your stuff. Your buddies for one and spouse for another will appreciate the gesture.

Posted on February 4th, 2008 by dian