CES is chock full of fantastic futuristic concept devices so half-baked, experimental, and held together by smoke and mirrors that there’s no way any actual human beings will ever lay a hand on them again, let alone buy them at a store. So don’t start saving up for this fishy Avatar car yet. There’s nothing wrong with this. It’s cool to see these cutting-edge dream devices at least partially enter the real world, and their development does lead to real products along with inflated corporate egos.
But man, sometimes I just want to see some modest yet cool tech that can start helping me with a real problem today. So while I guess it’ll eventually be nifty to get a OnePlus phone with a camera that disappears behind glass, I’m much more interested in this Otterbox antimicrobial screen for cleaning phone filth.
New tech products are presented as clean and sterile as possible. But nothing stays fresh forever. I like it when companies acknowledged that these products used all the time by grubby human hands eventually get dirty. It’s why Star Wars and its used future aesthetic makes spaceships feel so cool and relatable.
However, it’s obviously bad and unhealthy for your phone to get super unsanitary. We already use screen protectors to guard against falls and cracks. So why not use that same screen protector to fight the growth of harmful bacteria?
As reported by 9To5 Mac, Otterbox is launching a new version of its Amplify screen protectors with added antimicrobial technology approved by the EPA. The proprietary ionic silver solution kills bacteria and stays potent over a long period of time because of how it is baked into the glass. The glass itself comes from Gorilla Glass maker Corning, so it should be plenty durable while retaining touch screen accuracy. There’s no launch information yet, but unlike so many other CES products, at least this is real.
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