sanitizing

Samsung's AirDresser is designed to be used on those occasions where clothes don't need a full cycle in the washing machine. It uses air and steam to sanitize and freshen garments placed inside.

A team from China has created an environmentally-friendly household cleaning appliance that can sanitize and disinfect your home by using water and salt. Egret creates electrolyzed water to combat germs, bacteria, odors and viruses.

Airliner cabins can get pretty germy. They're packed full of people from all over the world, who spend hours doing things like coughing and sneezing. It was with this in mind that the GermFalcon was created. It's a robot that kills germs on planes, using ultraviolet light.

NASA uses gloveboxes to keep the crew and equipment separate from dangerous contaminants and the space agency is fitting one of the larger gloveboxes with an Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) system to to prevent potentially dangerous microorganisms from escaping.

A device has been launched which promises to sanitize your phone while it is charging. The PhoneSoap Charger is a charging case that uses UV light to destroy the bacteria on your phone.

The intelligentM system monitors the hand-washing activities of healthcare workers, to make sure that they're doing it properly and frequently enough.

The Germ Genie UV light device has been shown to effectively kill bacteria on computer keyboards.

Violight, a company that specializes in toothbrush sanitizers, is set to release what's billed as the "first ever UV cell phone sanitizer."

ASUS's subsidiary AGAiT looks set to enter the domestic appliance market with the forthcoming release of the EC01 robotic vacuum cleaner

Computer keyboards have been found to be home to worrying amounts of harmful microbes, but Vioguard believes its new self-cleaning keyboard offers a possible solution.

The Alkeo is a new bench top device that sanitizes the polycarbonate chopping board, killing bacteria and viruses with a medical-grade, germicidal UV lamp.