CyberClean, Swiss Compound, Cleans Up Office “Staph” and Solves Keyboard “Grime Scene”

The keyboard is well-known to hold more germs than your toilet seat. Hey, don’t blame us for this info. In 2004, a researcher at University of Arizona found desks can support 10 million bacteria and the average office contains 20,961 germs per square inch. Keyboards averaged at 3295 per square inch and computer mice 1676. The toilet seat only averaged only 49 germs per square inch.

Which? ( a consumer association) in UK commissioned a microbiologist to test more than 30 keyboards in its offices. Compared to toilet seats and toilet door handles, one keyboard was 5X filthier. One keyboard held 150X over the level of acceptable bacteria and two other keyboards were found to contain Staph germs.

And now the filthy nature of keyboards is legend. You can catch diarrhea, menningitis, flu and other nasty stuff from your high tech office. Yet only 22% of workers clean their keyboards monthly (and 10% confess they have never, ever thought about cleaning their keyboards.)

And one reason why people don’t clean their keyboards is…well, it’s awkward to clean. The real bad stuff is in the cracks of the keypads.

At CeBIT, we found an easier to solve your customer’s keyboard "grime scene." CyberClean was shown on the stand of Joker AG from Switzerland. CyberClean boasts “Swiss Formula Patented Cleaning Action," a high-tech cleaning compound that cleans and kills germs from between those cavities and crevasses found on keyboards and other hard-to-clean surfaces.

Continue reading...

Shown for the first time at CES 2009, the new “TuneBug” solves a problem for any Tour de France wanna-be and anyone who has a hobby with a helmet. (OK, hockey players and other contact sports excluded…)

How do you get real sound while racing around on a bike, skateboard, skis? TuneBug's licensed technology provides an answer. Activities that require helmets don’t easily allow headphones (and if not dangerous, it’s certainly illegal in some places to use headphones on a motorcycle, bike, skateboard, snowboard or skis.)

Bypassing traditional stereo speaker technology, the TuneBug uses “exciter” technology that projects sound waves through the surfaces it rests on. When placed on a helmet, the TuneBug creates a type of surround-sound that lets the sound of the surroundings slip through. The diminutive 40 oz. TuneBug attaches to helmets and functions as an independent unit (MP3 Player + Speaker), or can be connected to an iPod (or Zen or Zune) and used as a speaker. The helmet-friendly device with a Micro SD slot can store 2GB (about 400 music files), and approximately 5 hours play time.

Continue reading...

Sonance developed three new models for the company’s Landscape Series. Two of these UV-resistant speakers, the RK83 and RK63, are outdoor “rock-like” speakers designed to blend into the environment. The RK63 Rock speaker is a 6.5” 2-way, roughly 10 x 11 x 14 inches and is rated for 100w maximum power handling; the 8” 2-way RK83 Rock speaker measures roughly 14 x 15 x 18 inches and is rated for 150W maximum.

The third new product, the SoundHenge Redux is actually an enclosure that looks like Continue reading...

The Master of Accessories was next to me, standing on the ultimate accessory, a Segway, further emboldened by a red Porsche logo.
  Noel Lee, president and CEO of Monster Cable, doesn’t need a Porsche Segway to highlight his status. After all, most in the business would agree Noel invented the category of cable accessories for audio and video…

Go The Head Monster

The Master of Accessories was next to me, standing on the ultimate accessory, a Segway, further emboldened by a red Porsche logo. 

Noel Lee, president and CEO of Monster Cable, doesn’t need a Porsche Segway to highlight his status. After all, most in the business would agree Noel invented the category of cable accessories for audio.

“Come see this demo”, invites the Head Monster, leading the way on the Segway, looking very much like a general headed for a mortar shooting Continue reading...

Driven by the proliferation of devices like cell phones, MP3 players and digital cameras, at least 3 billion power adapters will be shipped worldwide this year, up from 2.2 billion only three years ago. Find a way to eliminate the need to ship a separate power adapter to convert AC into the required DC power for each and every electronics device…and you’ve found a technology that can really help the environment. And that’s exactly what one start-up company has found: Green Plug& Continue reading...

If you’ve attended any of my speeches, you know I am a big fan of the humble USB.

The USB is about the greatness standard this industry ever launched. Hundreds of millions of units later and the public still loves USB.

In fact, you can almost say the public has carried the USB to extremes. In every speech in the years since USB was launched, I have shown USB items highlighting the public’s USB mania: a toy missile-launching USB, the USB coffee cup warmer, aromatic USB, noodle-making USB…and more Continue reading...