Self-sterilizing door handle looks perfect for hypochondriacs, is as real as their ailments

Self-sterilizing door handle looks perfect for hypochondriacs, is as real as their ailments: "

The world of concepts is quite the wonderful place to behold, it's filled with electric supercars, cameras that only ever need one lens, beautiful BlackBerrys, and now... a self-cleaning door handle. The product of one Choi Bomi's hyperactive imagination, this gatekeeper continuously sterilizes itself with a UV light, only taking a break when you actually use it. A clandestine switch in the handle's frame is what toggles the sanitizing illumination on and off, a spark of cleverness that's earned the design a Red Dot award. That's great, now who hands out the awards for making economically viable, mass producible devices?

Self-sterilizing door handle looks perfect for hypochondriacs, is as real as their ailments originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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