{"id":9284,"date":"2019-08-05T07:52:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T21:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=9284"},"modified":"2019-08-05T04:56:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T18:56:07","slug":"phonesoap-because-your-phone-is-a-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/phonesoap-because-your-phone-is-a-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"PhoneSoap: Because your phone is a toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9285\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/27124442\/cc53f736-117c-4f62-8d61-a182583b8d08.__CR00970600_PT0_SX970_V1___-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK so I&#8217;m no germaphobe but phones are gross.<\/p>\n<p>They harbour 18 times the amount of germs and bacteria you find on a public toilet, so god help you if you bite your nails after tapping away. Ewww.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>PhoneSoap offers a unique solution that uses no heat or chemicals and instead bathes your phone in a special UVC light which kills 99.99% of all germs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting little product but hardly a cheap one either. A$145 will give you that almost germ-free guarantee but is it worth it? I guess it depends how freaked out you are by how gross your phone is to touch.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what&#8217;s worse, your phone or the handrail on a public train during Melbourne&#8217;s winter?<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com.au\/PhoneSoap-3-0-Sanitizer-Universal-White\/dp\/B071KGVLBB\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?keywords=phonesoap&#038;qid=1564943408&#038;s=gateway&#038;sr=8-1&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=reckoner-22&#038;linkId=f4a831dcccfcd32a84025f42d6812a28&#038;language=en_AU\">PhoneSoap 3.0 UV Sanitizer and Universal Phone Charger (White) \u00a0|\u00a0Amazon AU<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OK so I&#8217;m no germaphobe but phones are gross. They harbour 18 times the amount of germs and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[437,298,284],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9291,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284\/revisions\/9291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}