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April 30, 2007
SmudgeGuard Nation — Do birds of a feather flock together?
You may recall a recent post featuring the SmudgeGuard (above and below), a solution to artists' and left-handed writers' woes.
I happened on the journal page of the device's inventor, one Jeannie Lit (below),
and noted with interest that as of her journal post of this morning, some 39 websites (including bookofjoe) had featured her product.
What interested me was that a number of those 39 were previously completely unknown to me.
Sure, Gizmodo and Cool Tools and Shiny Shiny were among them but it's those unknowns that piqued my interest, so much so that I spent several most delightful hours poking around them to see what else we had in common — and what I could find that would never otherwise have come to my attention.
Here's the list.
1. Sentinel Newspaper of NJ -http://ems.gmnews.com/news/2006/1206/Front_Page/035.html
2. The Star Ledger Newspaper of NJ
3. Random Terrain - Good Example of Web sites -http://www.randomterrain.com/web-design-good-examples.html
4. iParenting.com - Featured Mom of the Month of February 2007 -http://iparenting.com/mom/4530.php
5. 5 Minutes for Mom - http://www.5minutesformom.com/mom-owned-stores/gifts-family/smudgeguardeliminatessmudgesforartistslefthandedchildrenandadults/
6. Kevin Kelly of KK.org - Featured SmudgeGuard™ as a "Cool Tool" at http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001638.php
7. Core77 - Industrial Design Supersite - Featured SmudgeGuard™ at http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/smudgeguard_prevents_smudges_makes_you_look_like_an_ice_skater_6026.asp
8. GottaBeMobile.com - Featured SmudgeGuard™ at http://www.gottabemobile.com/WithTheSmudgeGuardYouCanBecomeTheGlovedOne.aspx
9. TechieDiva.com - Featured SmudgeGuard™ at http://www.techiediva.com/weblog/2007/04/be_the_gloved_o.html#comments
10. IDasia.org - Featured SmudgeGuard™ at http://idasia.org/?p=125#more-125
11. LD Resources - http://www.ldresources.org/?p=1346
12. Design Sojourn - http://www.designsojourn.com/index.php/2007/04/21/the-smudge-guard/
13. Stumble Upon - http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.smudgeguard.com/
14. del.icio.us/ gregp01 - http://del.icio.us/gregp01/smudgeguard
15. Rosemary West's The Left-Handed Page - http://www.rkwest.com/left-handed/?p=54
16. Startup Nation - http://www.startupnation.com/marketplace/273/smudgeguard---say-good-bye-to-smudges-for-tablet-pc-users-lefties-and-artists/
17. iliketotallyloveit.com - http://www.iliketotallyloveit.com/tag/draw
18. The Center for Graphic Facilitation - http://graphicfacilitation.blogs.com/pages/great_gear/index.html
19. Folderol - http://www.spookylibrarians.com/2007/04/right-on-heels-of-my-talking-about.html
20. digi@rt - http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://www.digiart.cn/read.php%3F878&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=6&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dsmudgeguard%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DGGLG,GGLG:2005-51,GGLG:en%26sa%3DN
21. Spandex Covers - http://www.enjoinshopping.info/spandex-covers.htm
22. Seeds of Growth - http://www.seedsofgrowth.com/smudgeguard
23. jkOnTheRun - http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2005/05/screen_smudges.html
24. VERSLASonline - http://www.blogas.lt/verslasonline/236965/idomus-dalykelis-kairiarankiams-isradimai-smudgeguardcom.html
25. The Gadgeteer - http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/diary/julie/noteworthy_links_and_news_from_this_week
26. Shiny Shiny - A girl's guide to gadgets - http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2007/04/smugeguard.html
27. bookofjoe - http://www.bookofjoe.com/2007/03/lefthanders_smu.html
28. TrendHunter.com - http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/do-you-always-get-ink-smudges-while-writing-try-smudgeguard/
29. TeacherTabletPC - http://teachertabletpc.com/?s=smudgeguard
30. ODesign - http://www4.autistici.org/o.design/modules/news/article.php?storyid=305
31. Moleskinerie/Notebookism - http://www.moleskinerie.com/product_updates/index.html
32. doom.blog-city.com - http://doom.blog-city.com/i_want_one.htm
33. Mike's Little Journalized - http://zed1.com/journalized/archives/2004/08/12/left-handers-day/
34. AllWomen'sTalk.com
35. ziki.com - Brian Ling's last published content - http://www.ziki.com/people/designtranslator.rss?category=10
36. gadgetfriends.net - http://gadgetfriends.com/allfeeds/en/frame/1/?q=palm
37. BlogoWogo - http://www.blogowogo.com/blog_article.php?aid=664037&t=
38. The Fountain Pen Network - http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t28525.html
39. Gizmodo - http://gizmodo.com/all/gear/
Worth noting is that today, April 30, 2007, is the last day of the special introductory price of $4.99.
As of tomorrow it'll be $9.99.
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I used to simply buy the cheap white cotton gloves Kodak sold at most photo stores and cut the thumb and index fingers off.
Retouching photos with a 00 brush would leave smudges on the glossy paper from your palm without some form of protection.
Posted by: Rob | May 1, 2007 12:11:46 PM
Hi, Joe. I just emailed this comment to her:
I am a retired teacher. My fourth grade students were sharing their posters they had made on Codes and Languages. One student shared his on Braille, and apologized for the smudges, saying he was left handed, and that was a usual problem for lefties. The next student shared his poster on the Arabic Language. He explained that their writing was done from right to left. With that, the first student hit his forehead and exclaimed, "Why wasn't I born an Arab?!!!!" Too bad I'm not in contact with him anymore. I saw your device on Book of Joe. I could aim him in your direction!
Posted by: Gini | Apr 30, 2007 6:03:47 PM
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