Im pretty sure they are surge protector power strips.... i could be wrong though, ill have to check, and i do have plans on buying a UPS sometime soon because of all these damn hurricanes i get down here in FL, so i can at least keep it on through the short brown outs that i get all the time, i just need to find a job first. And i got the anti-glare layer almost completely off theres just this one stubborn spot on the left that im still working on, but where it did come off , the monitor actually looks better then before...