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In Korean cafe, toaster sanitizes smartphones
There are up to 7000 types of bacteria living on every smartphone, which is unsurprising considering
how often they are used, but owners rarely think to clean them. Now, Green Toaster is a sanitizing
device created by ad agency Innored and UK-based design school Kinneir Dufort for Korean
e-commerce giant Gmarket, which will deep clean any smartphone using UV light, while the customer
waits for their drink at a coffee shop.
To begin, users launch the Gmarket app on their smartphone before placing it one of two slots at the
top of the Green Toaster. Then they pull down the lever, which draws the phone inside the device —
mimicking the action of a normal toaster. The phone is then cleaned using UV light, which sanitizes
and kills the micro-organisms on the phone. Once the process is complete, the toast pops up
automatically.
Green Toaster is not the first phone sanitizing device on the market — a box that cleans phones while
they charge overnight also uses UV-C light. But the Green Toaster's design is fun and intuitive, and by
placing it in the social environment of a cafe, it is likely to reach a wider audience and provides an
interesting new advertising space for Gmarket. Are there other tech devices that could benefit from
being integrated into public spaces?
Website: www.gmarket.co.kr
Contact: [email protected]
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