We are all so petrified of germs, we turn to the highest tech to get rid of them, every last one. But that's not going to be easy. In sheer numbers, there are 20 times more creepy crawlies in your body than cells. Heck, there are 500 species of bacteria, weighing 3.3 pounds, living in your gut alone! But those 90 trillion microbes living in and on your body right now aren't what should be worrying us. Many of them are vital to our survival, and we want to keep them around. However, sometimes malevolent invaders try to blend in with that helpful crowd of flora and fauna. Those villains are the ones we want to kill, so click Continue to discover the top 10 gadgets that'll help us do just that.
10. VIOlight Toothbrush Sanitizer
Rearrange the DNA of those puny microscopic pests camping out on your toothbrush with the ultraviolet light inside this $49 VIOlight in either travel or home versions. Once you've illuminated those germs for ten minutes with various wavelengths of UV light, you'll have the cleanest toothbrush in town. Well, until you put it back into that potty mouth of yours.
9. Just Plane Clean
When you're wedged into a flying tin can full of hacking, microbe-spewing meat puppets, you're going to need some heavy air filtering. Snap the Plane Clean Filter onto that ventilation nozzle above your head, and its stale breeze will still smell rank, but at least there will be a few less funky pathogens in the air. We have our doubts about this one; it'll cost ya $20 to be the guinea pig.
8. Hands-Free Soap Dispenser
Your bathroom can be touch-free, starting with this $40 SimpleHuman Sensor Soap Pump. Let's hope it doesn't require some fancy macarena-style hand motions to get the flow started. Fill it up with Purell for more antibacterial goodness; rinse, repeat.
7. Nanotech Dresses
These two cotton dresses, created by fiber scientists and a student designer at Cornell University, have metallic nanofabers sewn in, giving them remarkable germ-fighting capabilities. Not a single microbe can survive on these garments, and they never need washing, either. Yeah, make me some socks out of this stuff — we'll see if they never need washing or not. Too bad the material costs $10,000 per square yard.
6. Zapper Kills Bugs Dead
You don't actually want to put your hands anywhere near those grimy houseflies, do you? This $13 Electric Bug Zapper is like a lethal Taser for any insect, testament to the cruel fact that if you're a bug, trespassing in someone's house warrants the death penalty.
5. Germ-Killing Surface
You do realize that your hands are even more germ-infested than a toilet seat, right? Keeping that in mind, the loo will be many times cleaner than you when it's someday equipped with a nano particle surface made of titanium dioxide. Aussie innovators in the Particles and Catalysts Research Group at the University of New South Wales created the substance that not only cleans itself, it repels water, too. Still in the developmental stage, expect the sparkling surface to be coming soon to a water closet near you.
4. Philips Sonicare FlexCare Toothbrush
Not only does this $100 Philips electric toothbrush sonically vibrate that plaque into oblivion, now the company has picked up on the ultraviolet bug-killing kick, too. Just pop those brush heads into the mini-tanning booth attached to the toothbrush's base, and all those nasty squirmy worms are cooked up like a lobster in a boiling pot.
3. Lotus Sanitizing System
This $150 magic bowl turns ordinary H2O into superoxygenated water that can clean everything in your house, neutralize odors, kill microbes and even rid foods of pesticides. Cure all known diseases? Well, they're not going that far. Either dip whatever you want super-cleaned into the bowlful of cleansing water, or put that special water in a spray bottle to spread its goodness hither and yon. Sounds like snake oil. Does it work? Time magazine thought so.
2. Halo UVX Vacuum
The $400 Halo UVX's ultraviolet bug-killing light not only smites mites and the ever-present dust bunnies to which they cling, its makers say it can even kill viruses. If it can do that, those common household bacteria and common rug funk should be no match for this snarling, wheezing, purple-illuminated beast.
1. Samsung SilverCare Washer
Using nanotech to release molecules of silver into your wash water, Samsung says this washer kills 99.9% of "tested bacteria" (whatever that is), even when using cold water and no bleach. Consumer Reports says the $1400 washer's SilverCare setting actually made some stinky t-shirts smell a whole lot better than those washed the normal way, but it took an extra 6 to 24 minutes per load to release those magical bug-killing silver nanoparticles.
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