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Germ-eliminating wand: an addition to your travel-kit
Remember the last time you woke up all scratchy from your hotel/bed? Or when the hotel's carpet smelt like cat poo? Or when there was a layer of grime on the kitchen table-top of the apartment you rented out on your trip? Well, now instead of taking a long shower with your eyes closed and trying to keep away nightmares of waking up with hives, you can be the wizard of cleanliness by owning a Hammacher Schlemmer germ-eliminating wand.
The device uses UV-C (a shortwave ultraviolet light that has disinfectant properties) to eliminate 99% of bacteria, viruses, mold, and dust mites in the bathroom, in the kitchen, or on your bedding.
All you have to do is move around the wand's 6-inch long light bulb over all the surfaces you want ''purified" and it will rapidly disinfect everything. By holding the wand over the contaminated surface for 20 seconds, the UV light will kill all the E.coli, salmonella and staphylococcus that cause the common cold and the flu.
The wand can be programmed for up to an hour and has an automatic shut-off option. However, be careful as overexposure to UV-C can lead to skin-redness and eye irritation.
It costs about $100; perhaps not a bad investment eh?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
zima3000 Dec 11th 2007 12:33PM
Neat thingy for sure. Although I'm not clear on how that will help with the bed bugs? (I presume they were the reason you woke up scratchy. It either them or breadcrumbs but I'm sure you know better than eat in the bed). The thingy will also not get cat's urine out of the carpet or clean the layer of grime from the table for you but it will certainly help people with germophobia, so kudos to Hammacher Schlemmer for helping our sick populace with what's really wrong with it.
P.S. SkyMall catalog is full of wonderful and uber-useful gadgets like this, ain't it?
Oddsocks Dec 11th 2007 2:44PM
These are not the germs you're looking for. Move along.