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Vioguard’s self-sanitizing keyboard means maybe we don’t all have to die this year

If there’s one thing scarier than going to the hospital for some potentially harmful harmfulness, it’s getting sicker due to some minor slip-up in the carefully-observed hygiene practices of your own personal Zach Braff M.D. That’s where Vioguard’s newly shipping UVKB50 self-sanitizing keyboard comes in, with a proximity detector to let a set of freshly sanitized keys slide out for use by a health care professional, which slide back once they’re not in use to get re-sterilized with anti-bacterial ultraviolet light. The $899 pricetag isn’t too bad given the application, but it probably won’t be making our own cubicles safer any time soon. Video of the keyboard in action is after the break.

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