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Self Cleaning Mouse
mikesd81 writes "LEWIS Wire is reporting on a self-cleaning mouse that disables the survival of bacteria with an auto-disinfecting surface. From the article: 'According to a recent survey from the University of Arizona, the average desk harbors 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat. Despite this, office workers rarely have time to clean their desktops frequently or thoroughly enough to be effective. As a result, the presence of microbes contributes to the spread of pneumonia, the flu, pink eye and strep throat, among other extremely contagious viruses.'"
We just figured out 90% of the mouse's dna, and already it's cleaning itself... very nice !
It licks it's own balls?
Compulsive telephone sanitisers. I never caught a flu from MY mouse.... What are they worried about, computers catching a virus?
the average desk harbors 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat Clearly, people are doing something wrong with their desks or with their toilets.
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It is no surprise the average desktop has too many viruses, what do you expect when the average desktop is running windows? But the Fine Article seems to have confused virus with bacteria. Just switch to Linux and everything will be hunky dory.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
So are people supposed to wipe their butt with this thing or what? (Just trying to correlate toilet seats, bacteria and an antiseptic mouse.)
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
For the ball-less mice: bacteria can also be killed with a laser beam.
Wow...so many viruses on my desktop. Does Microsoft make that too?
I would call spending 1/3 of every day cleaning excessive, unless you are a janitor.
That's nothing. I have a self-cleaning dog. A friend of mine watched my dog clean himself and said, "Man, I wish I could do that."
I told him, "You better pet him first; he might bite."
Mr. T pitied this fool on 27 July 1992.
Cats are already self-cleaning. It was only a mater of time.
...for anyone who pushes their mouse around with their tongue.
I'm surprised, though, that the marketing idiots didn't come up with an ant-terrorism angle - after all, if your mouse kills little bad bug things it'll Keep You Safe(tm) during a biological attack!
Wash your hands.
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The solution is just to move everyone's desk into the restroom.
>Speaking of which, the average publich toilet gets a thorough (? :-)) scrubbing with nasty disinfectants several times a day.
Blimey, where you do live?
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My cat has been doing this for years.
You're right. These mice will be the natural selection grounds for oxygen radical resistant bacterial strains, maybe even incoorperating them into their metabolic pathways to produce cheap ATP. Next you will find your printer clogged up with strange pulsating mounds of glee. From there the bug will spread in any electronic device where electric charge creates free radicals, bringing down civilisation as we know it.
Has anyone checked these oxygen-radical producing mice for connections with muslim-radicals?
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!
So... are you feeling lucky?
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
I say we build an arc to carry away these people working on such useless projects. We could probably get rid of a good third of the world if we were to just send off all the hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, management consultants, telephone (and mouse) sanitizers. Then we could finally live in peace...
This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
That must suck for Louisiana.
Resistant, sure. Aggressive, ??
Of course they're aggressive. You just killed their family, and tried to kill them. They're pissed, they're armed, and you gotta sleep sometime.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
Hmmm.... Maybe sell it as "Norton Antibacterial"?
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I've also swapped out my chair at work with unused matches before
Aren't they kind of uncomfortable to sit on? Besides the obvious fire hazard..
Why is it that many people who claim to support standards have such atrocious spelling and grammar?
"sure, I always wash my hands before taking a piss -- hey, I wouldn't want to get my cock dirty!"
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If that's really a problem, then a little review might help.
But to address your points seriously, urine is composed of plasma, uric acid, and other elements that your kidneys filter out. It doesn't smell good, but it's not ridden with bacteria. Semen won't produce a good bacterial culture either, and I'd like to think that most people try to avoid cumming all over their toilet seats anyways.
Then it's a pity most toilet seats are made out of plastic or wood.Even on that note, it's really the same. A lot of toilet seats are plastic, but that isn't really hospitable to bacteria either. Most wooden toilets seats are treated, but even if you had some old piece of driftwood with a hole carved in it, it doesn't change the necessity bacteria have to consume nutrients. If you have a constantly warm, steamy bathroom, and you came all over the untreated wooden seat on a regular basis, and the bacteria were able to get everything they need from the protein, then you might have a problem. But, that's hardly the case in a majority of bathrooms.
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