A new product is due soon that should protect your precious HDTV, even if you should manage to demolish every other object in your living room during a fitful round of Wii-ing. Looking at it, it seems nice enough, but given the erratic world of Wii controller airborne trajectories, it doesn't seem to be particularly ricochet-proof.

On your fifth HDTV since buying a Wii? Yeah, we are too -- maybe it's time to get your display a little something designed to protect it against the occasional glancing blow from an errant Wiimote. Sketchy though the Taiwanese company's site may seem (apologies in advance, we're not clear on any US distributors), LCDArm claims its impact-resistant Safety Shield passes through 98% of light, reduces UV, and, of course, is the ideal candidate for protecting your high-def investment from your decidedly low-def motion-sensitive console, whose controller has been occasionally known to fly out of the hands of adoring fans with truly horrific results.

Next up...a Safety Shield 'glove' that protects your five-digited fleshy investment against those decidedly motion-inhibiting coffee table edges...

Here we finally have some major home improvement going on. This Grandpa has put together a fancy deflector shield for his TV. Something tells me that this isn't the first thing Gramps has had to encapsulate with protective barriers since this nine year old first entered their world. Here's Lee's take on the situation...

"At first my nine-yr-old wanted an Xbox 360 for Christmas, but after I showed him your website, he completely changed his mind. Chance of destroying something expensive? He's on board. One overnight sleepover at Gamestop later, I got the Wii. When my parents saw your website, however, they reacted quite differently. My father invented and installed this TV-protection shield in 15 minutes with $15 of materials from Lowe's. Does it work? I'll let you know. -Lee"

I can see Grandpa's invention stepping into other things as well. Pretty quick everything will have Plexi-glass bolted to the side of it. It will start with some fairly acceptable things like priceless works of art, but then Grandpa is going to get carried away and bolt some to the underside a toilet seat and there will be a reenactment of one of my favorite practical jokes from childhood.