Killing Germs Off of Keyboards… Hospitals (& Beyond)

You know how so many keyboards have dust, microscopic skin samples, and other pleasantries all over them in hospitals (or on your desk)?  Good News!!! A new and unusual FDA APPROVAL has been announced today:

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has cleared the Vioguard self-sanitizing computer keyboard for use in healthcare settings, the first FDA-cleared computer keyboard to use the germicidal properties of ultraviolet light to automatically clean its surfaces.

The use of UV-C is a proven killer of flu, MRSA, and other harmful viruses and germs.  That might not replace the need to clean a keyboard and you probably don’t want to suddenly start chewing your fingernails just because of this, but this can at least help in the war on germs lurking on your keyboards.

Here it is.