A closer look
Your smartphone screen is a horrifying biological wasteland, harboring roughly ten times more bacteria than an average public toilet seat; because we drag these warm, glass rectangles with us everywhere from public transit to the dinner table and, notoriously, into the bathroom, they act as perfect little petri dishes for nasty pathogens, meaning we obsessively wash our hands before meals to avoid germs, only to immediately pick up our phones and wipe all that accumulated grime directly onto our faces to take a phone call while the tech industry keeps adding high-definition cameras and titanium frames to these devices, entirely ignoring the fact that what we really need is a phone that occasionally sterilizes itself so we aren't constantly touching a glowing slab of disease
