LG wants to make sure you're germ-free
By Ryan Block 
posted Sep 14th 2004 10:39AM
posted Sep 14th 2004 10:39AM
Apparently there are more people obsessive-compulsive about sterilizing their cellphones than we ever imagined. LG has officially begun a program to rid your cellphone of the 25,000-odd (benign) bacteria that inhabit it by disinfecting customers' phones by coating it with an anti-bacterial solution. We predict it's only a matter of time before gradeschools follow suit with cellphone hygenics programs, replete with singing, dancing clean-cellphone cartoons.
It's no wonder antibiotic-resistant bacteria are cropping up all over the world. Just for clarity's sake: you don't get antibiotic-resistant bacteria if you don't overuse antibiotics. It's not just harmless overkill to throw antibiotics everywhere, and the people who are so appalled by the idea of harmless bacteria that they would pull this shit should (1) use bleach instead and (2) seek professional psychiatric help.
Ah now a whole new dimension to cell phone sales -- these would probably require FDA approval before they could be marketed in the USA!!
to the Golgafrinchans. They sent off all their telephone sanitizers and ... well you know what happens next. If you don't read the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.