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Did you know that your smartphone is covered in germs? In fact, it's 18x dirtier than a public bathroom, which is pretty horrifying! In this video tech expert Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the PhoneSoap 2.0 smartphone sanitizer. It's like a tiny tanning salon for your phone!
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hi Dave Taylor here and this time I want
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to talk about germs not germs on us but
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germs on your smartphone turns out that
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when you look at it under an ultraviolet
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light your phone probably has anywhere
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from 10 to 20 times the amount of germs
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that a typical public restroom has ooh
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it's really pretty disgusting and the
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thing is most cleaners if you even think
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about it and if you even try to clean it
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most cleaners are going to be liquid or
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they're going to be chemicals or there's
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going to be heat involved really none of
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those are very good for your smartphone
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so enter a company called foam soap and
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they have this product is the foam soap
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too and to just sort of put it in
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context it's really like a mini tanning
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bed for your smartphone so you open it
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up you can see there a UVC UVC bulbs
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left both sides and essentially you Club
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put your phone in you close it and now
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it's getting a little tan it's getting a
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little tan there but what's really
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happening is it's really actually
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getting all those germs apt so it's
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being disinfected you see on the top
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there's a little light that comes on and
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basically the way it works is that it
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takes about five minutes and then it's
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good to go now you can if you're so
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inclined unplug this to make this a
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little easier you can if you're so
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inclined actually let me take my phone
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out this is that good for my phone
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either you can actually wind a charging
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cord in so it goes underneath comes out
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if something you do it right comes out
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inside so the idea is that you can
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actually charge your phone while it's in
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here and now you have a very neat
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disinfecting phone charging station so
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you have this on your desk you have this
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by your bed pretty slick idea actually
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why they call it phone soap I'm not sure
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because there's no soap involved but
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that's their choice it is really well
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made its a very nice heavy solid device
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and it fits phones up to and you can see
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let me again monkey with wires but you
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can see the size of my iphone 6 versus
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the available glass surface space so
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it'll definitely take something as big
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as a 6 plus or one of the bigger samsung
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galaxy phones so that's nice they have a
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bigger one coming out that's good for
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tablets that's not till like mid next
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year it also has a little acoustic
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amplifier which is to say that there's
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little holes in the bottom so I guess
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the idea is if you leave it charging
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overnight you'll still hear your alarm
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when it goes off yeah I guess you can
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decide that and it comes in beautiful
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white or in black and it runs 59 95 and
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you can check it out at phone soap.com
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so here's the sort of the long and short
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of it is our phones are pretty gross and
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dirty and full of germs might not be a
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big deal to you you might not really
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think about it where this would be
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really cool would be to have it in some
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sort of central community space honestly
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unless you're a real germaphobe I don't
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know that you really need to do this
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every single day now data could show me
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wrong and I'm maybe possibly in slight
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denial about that but the idea of having
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one available where you could like drop
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your phone in once a week or something
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and really get it all back to sort of
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baseline clean and then have it slowly
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accumulate seems to make a lot of sense
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to me so I could see having something
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like this is that a doctor's office
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would be cool or maybe at a hospital
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maybe as you're walking out of that big
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public restroom ooh but in terms of
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having it for yourself I think you need
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to decide you know how worried are you
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about the germs on your smartphone it
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also might be a function of where you
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work and what you do if you're a nurse
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you might actually find something like
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this to be a terrific idea so phone soap
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two point oh 59 bucks it's a slick
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little tanning bed for your smartphone
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and other devices this is dave taylor
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and
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and you'll wash my hands so see you in
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my next video