Piggy Flu Mania Means Vioguard Keyboard Is Your Best Hope For H1N1 Avoidance [Keyboard]
The Vioguard keyboard might be the first keyboard to specifically target the swines, using two 25-watt UV lights to kill 99.99% of viruses and bacteria in about 90 seconds.
The bad part is that 0.01% that it doesn’t kill gets to breed and breed and become superbugs—but that’s something for our kids to worry about. You can buy your own Vioguard for $900 up in Canada’s version of Amazon.com, and if you’re the kind of person in charge of a large number of computers, like a University’s computer lab, you owe it to your users to try and pass this off in the next budget meeting. [Businesswire via Engadget]
Japanese company to sell Swine Flu-resistant suit — because nobody wants their clothes to get sick
Japan’s been particularly hard hit with this H1N1 influenza marching around the globe, so maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that one of its companies has come up with an “anti-flu” suit… but it still is. Japanese clothier Haruyama Trading Company has developed and is now selling a men’s suit which will supposedly ward off the H1N1 virus — not the first time we’ve seen this idea. The suit, which looks exactly like any other, is coated in titanium dioxide (a popular ingredient found in sunscreen and toothpaste) which reacts when exposed to sunlight and kills the virus. Nobody’s really checked into whether or not these things actually work, of course, but hey — that’s part of the fun, right? If you live in Japan, you can grab one for somewhere in the neighborhood of $580. [Via Cnet]
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Posted: October 8th, 2009
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Topics: Haruyama Trading Co, HaruyamaTradingCo, Medical, MensSuit, MensSuits, Suit, Swine flu, SwineFlu, TitaniumDioxide, clothing, h1n1, illness, japan, mens suit, mens suits, sickness, titanium dioxide, wearables
