I was left speechless last night when I saw a commercial for this no-touch hand soap dispenser.
It shows people touching the pump of a conventional hand soap/hand sanitizer dispenser which, on closer inspection is teeming with cartoon germs. Horror of horrors. Why would anyone want to touch this disease ridden surface?
Now for only $16.95 (the best Amazon.com price), you can just wave your hand under the spout and catch a squirt of soap.
But wait a minute.
Why does it matter if there are germs on the conventional pump, since they’re about to be washed off of your hands anyway? And people who wash/sanitize their hands frequently probably have fewer bacteria on their hands to begin with, making the conventional pump marginally cleaner than most surfaces you touch during the day – like money or door handles.
This, then, is a product that meets a non-existent need.
This is the kind of thing that makes people in the Third World think we’re imbeciles.
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