Germ Warfare
Posted in The Problem: You’re sitting at a public computer (work, school, library, etc.) and suddenly become aware that you are not the sole user of the machine. Not only are you not the sole user but you have no idea who used the machine before you and who will use it after you. You suddenly recall a University of Arizona study’s findings that the average desk harbors 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat. Your mind’s eye very quickly becomes a high powered microscope and you zoom in on the germs on the mouse. You drop the mouse as you stumble backwards and realize that no one is safe…or are they?
The Solution: IOGEAR has release a germ free wireless mouse. From their site…”IOGEAR’s Germ Free Laser Mouse is coated with a Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) and Silver (Ag) nano-particle compound. The coating uses two mechanisms to deactivate enzymes and proteins to prevent a wide spectrum of bacteria, virus, fungi, and algae from surviving on the surface of the mouse.” And just in case you get hungry and decide your mouse looks rather tasty this portion of the disclaimer should discourage you, “…Do not ingest the surface material of the device under any circumstances.”
So, without the worry of bacteria on our computer mice we can finally sleep at night. The world is safe once again from the evil bacteria. Though, this does beg another question. Do we really have any idea what the eradication of certain bacterias will do to our ecosystem? Perhaps the topic of another post…
