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Cell Phones and Colds, How to be 99.99% Microbe Free

Posted by Cellular Chloe on Wed, Nov 09, 2011 @ 08:45 AM
 
Truth be told, I stole this article...from myself. Back in October 09, I wrote this and I thought it was fun so I'm recycling it because germs are making a comeback. Well, they never went away but they seem to be a trending topic once again. I polished it up to include a great product that both cleans your screen and kills germs that cause cold and flu. There is a fun quiz that you can take that determines how many germs are on your phone. I took it again and two years later I have the exact same amount of germs on my phone.
How many germs live on your cell phone?

I think I'm basically a clean person. I have no kids but I do have a dog and work in a building with many people. I drive to work and don't share my phone with others. My phone is always out, on my desk, or in my hand walking around the office, I hardly ever "purse" it or clip it to anything! But clearly, these things are all factors in how many germs you have on your phone. My germ count was the equivalent of 279 toilet seats.

Eeeeeeewwwwwwww.

 

I took the quiz again, this time checking that I had no pets and the amount of germs dropped back by 224,700 or the equivalent of 234 toilet seats (45 less toilet seats than before). Do you think my dog could be licking my phone while I'm sleeping? Or worse, could my phone fall onto the rug just before she decides to drag her butt across the...nevermind. That's just mortifying.


 How many germs live on your cell phone?


Anyway, that's still too many germs for my liking. I could be carrying Swine Flu on my phone right now.  Take the quiz. See what's lurking on your phone!

Do yourself and everyone else you come in contact with a favor, clean your phone. And I don't mean dragging it across your sleeve to rid it of fingerprints. Two words for you...Clean Touch. It comes in a spray or a pen.

Monster clean touch pen Monster clean touch 

Monster is my new favorite manufacturer of everything you need to clean, charge, connect and hear your fav devices... In this case, Clean Touch is like Crack, it's addicting and when I don't have it to clean my tablet or phone I start going through withdrawals! Everytime someone asks to borrow it, I'm rationing their "sprays"!

Anyway, what makes their cleaner so special (anyone can make a spray cleaner) is that the cloth that comes with it is antimicrobial cloth. What that means is, it has polymer spikes that rupture the membranes of germs and render them ineffective. In laymen's terms it means it kills 99.99% of germs and viruses that cause colds and flu. Fingerprints and smudges are what these micobes cling to. So if your phone is clean, you are microbe free...well 99.99% free! Another cool thing is that the spray doesn't run. So you don't have to worry about keeping it flat or having the liquid penetrate the phone at the seems. And for my 4-eyed friends (I can say that because I wear them myself) it's awesome on glasses.


Listen to the Mp3 of Damon Scott and I comparing our phones to toilet seats.


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COMMENTS

Just pickep up the Iphone and I love it. I'm finding it easy to use and the camera takes great photos. My kids thinks its a cool phone too.

posted @ Friday, November 11, 2011 2:54 PM by tracy j


That's awesome. I always glad to hear when people get a phone they really like. It is a great phone, and what a bonus- having the kids think its cool too! 
-CC

posted @ Friday, November 11, 2011 3:33 PM by Cellular Chloe


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