The Lifx Clean smart light bulb can sanitize surfaces with just its light Want more news, reviews, guides, and features from Digital Trends? Follow us on Apple News, Google News, and Flipboard. The peace of mind is priceless, and you’ll use fewer sanitizing wipes. If you’re someone who has a cleansing station set up in your garage to disinfect everything that comes into the house, it’s worth having around. Other models of similar size can be in the $200 to $300 range. The Coral UV is competitively priced at $169. This option seems a bit much, but germaphobes might appreciate it. Finally, there’s a 24-hour Storage mode for items you want to keep in there overnight and sterilize. There’s Dry Only mode if you just want to dry off something, but it’s not recommended for electronics. Sterilize only lets you choose to sanitize for 10, 15, or 20 minutes, but Tse says 10 minutes should do the trick. Of course, we still wash our masks, but it’s nice to have that extra measure in place. If anything is placed on the bottom of the tray like a mask, we’ll run it again on the other side. The key is to make sure everything is spaced out. There’s enough room to place all of that in the box at once. We place our phone, keys, headphones, and masks in it daily. We’ve been using it for over a month on a multitude of items and our tech has yet to suffer any damage. We’re big fans of the Coral UV because of the incredible amount of convenience and peace of mind it provides during this uncertain time. Bacteria continued to grow on the dirty side, but nothing appeared on the clean side. So there really is something to that whole “your phone is dirtier than you think.” After a week, the results persisted. The phone dish had way more activity than that of the bandana dish. We checked again two days later, and found more growth on the dirty side of both dishes. There was a little something happening on the dirty side, but nothing to get to excited about. The result? UV light does what it claimsĪfter 24 hours, we checked the dishes. Then, we waited for science to work its magic. We put the dishes in the shoe box and placed the box on top of a cable box for some heat to encourage bacterial growth. We did the same cotton swab process when it came out of the Coral UV and zig-zagged the swab on the “clean” side of the dish. Next, weplaced the phone and bandana in the Coral UV. We did this with other items as well, including a bandana. With our dishes ready, we put the Coral UV to the test.įirst, we used a slightly dampened cotton swab to swipe our freshly used phone (it had a full day: The bathroom, the store, walking the dog, lots of calls, games), then rolled the swab in a zig zag motion around the dirty side of the Petri dish. We covered the dishes and waited an hour for the agar to cool and set up. We drew a line down the cover of the dish with a marker and labeled one side clean and the other dirty. We poured enough of the mixture into the Petri dish to coat the bottom of it. For all you parents looking for educational ways to entertain your kids, there are tons of science activities that you can do at home, and it provides everything you need.įor our test, we mixed up one teaspoon of agar with three ounces of water, and boiled it for about a minute until the agar dissolved. We ordered the company’s Growing Bacteria Kit, which contains cotton swabs, six petri dishes, a plastic beaker, the nutrient agar, a shoe box, and an activity guide to help design the experiment. We decided to channel our inner 6th grader and went back to science class with the help of a Steve Spangler Science kit. The experiment: Grow bacteria in a Petri dish Tse says they haven’t been able to test the machine with the coronavirus yet because there are no samples available. Impressive.īut what about the coronavirus? Can UV-C light kill the coronavirus? In theory, yes, because UV-C did inactivate both SARS and MERS. GE is fast becoming the light of your life with more smart lighting optionsĪn independent lab tested the Coral UV using a variety of bacteria, and the results state that the device kills 99.9% of household germs. The Brava Smart Oven cooks with light (and costs about $1,000) Goodpapa is a self-sanitizing toilet brush that cleans itself with UV-C light
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