17 Mar
Quickly slaying indecent bacteria with ultraviolet light

The people at PhoneSoap want you to know your iPhone is a filthy, filthy contraption. Don’t be fooled by its shining glass and brushed aluminum casing, what you’re holding is 5S worth of vile, fetid bacteria. 18-times more bacteria than a public restroom, they’ll have you know. So if you want to rid your handy […]


3 Nov
License to Kill...Bacteria

Donkey Products, a German-based design company, adds some danger to your everyday toiletries and kitchen wear. For example this Gangstaz Paradise Handgun-shaped soap, which ironically lathers up in a delicate rose scent. With or without the license to kill, enjoy a dry martini while you bathe with this soap…shaken, not stirred, naturally. $21 (€ 15).


Did you know that the average cell phone carries over 18 times more bacteria than the flush handle in a typical men’s bathroom? That’s absolutely wretched. Violight is trying to combat all the bacterial festering on our mobile phones by introducing their Violight UV Cellphone Sanitizer. This device uses germicidal UV light to destroy up […]


18 Jan
When Blood Cells attack

…or to be more specific, it is a neutrophil chasing Staphylococcus aureus by David Rogers (Vanderbilt University). I had no idea those battles were so animalistic — I didn’t know they ran away from each other for dear life, I just thought one absorbed the other and that was pretty much it. Who knew…