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Harvard Medical School’s H1N1 App Let’s You Panic On the Go [IPhone Apps]

Swine flu! It’s the panic du jour, far less dangerous than eating poorly cooked chicken or getting in a car, yet apparently infinitely more scary. And now Harvard will take $2 to scare you on your iPhone.

Harvard Medical School has just released HMSMobile Swine Flu Center, a $1.99 app that offers all sorts of stuff that doesn’t quite seem worth $1.99. This includes:

-Videos on how to protect yourself (spoiler: wash your hands)

-A quiz on whether or not you have swine flu (spoiler: you don’t)

-An outbreak tracker to see if the fever has swept through your area

-Advice about survival kits, just in case shit gets really fucking serious

Combine this with the Pedophile Finder app and the HealthMap app and you’ll scare yourself into never leaving the house. Awesome? [HMSMobile Swine Flue Center]

Slow-Motion Sneeze: MythBusters Get Gross To Protect You From Swine Flu [Swine Flu]

We love high-speed photography, but seeing Adam hurl a juicy sneeze at Jamie in super slowmo is enough to make us smash our EX-F1s. Still, it’s for a noble cause: Awareness and avoidance of H1N1, aka Swine Flu. [Discovery]

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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Japanese Anti-Flu Suit Lets You Get Sneezed On With Impunity [Panic]

A Japanese company called Haruyama Trading Co. has developed a suit that supposedly protects the wearer from the H1N1 hysteria virus. Finally!

It does this by being coated with titanium dioxide, which apparently reacts to light and kills the virus when it comes in contact with it. Unfortunately, you don’t get the flu through your torso, you get it through your mucus membranes such as your nose and mouth. And unless you plan on wearing the suit jacket over your face, I’m not sure how much good it’ll do you.

But hey, at least it’ll give you peace of mind, right? And when we’re battling a flu strain that appears to be just about as dangerous as the normal flu, but from goddamned pigs, we’ve got to take extreme measures. [Telegraph]