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Antibacterial mouse keeps your hands clean

Posted: Aug 14th 2006 1:34PM by Nicole Weston
Filed under: General Health, Health and Technology

Numerous studies have shown that your desk is riddled with germs, and that the "typical worker's desk has hundreds of times more bacteria per square inch than an office toilet seat." Since so many people eat their breakfast, lunch or at least a snack or two while seated, busily clicking away at the keyboard, this makes for some rather disturbing food for thought. Before shelving the idea of eating in the office altogether, or keeping an industrial sized and sanitizer next to your computer, check out the new Antibacterial Mouse from Elecom. It is only available in Japan at the moment, but it connects using a USB port, so it should work with any plug-n-play computer. The mouse has a special resin coating that prevents bacteria from growing on it, so you can rest easy -- at least until you start using the keyboard. Maybe we should all switch to voice-recognition software ...

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