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NEWS BYTES
WORLD’S FIRST
DISHWASHER SAFE
KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
Seal Shield Corporation has unveiled
their new signature products,
the SEAL SHIELD™ Medical Grade
Washable Keyboard and Mouse.
According to the company, the SEAL
SHIELD Keyboard and Mouse are the
first ever to be fully submersible and
dishwasher safe.
Seal Shield’s products have been
developed in response to the demand
from healthcare organizations for
disinfectant solutions to combat the
spread of cross contamination infections. This year, over two million patients
will contract an infection while seeking
treatment in a US hospital. Of those,
close to 100,000 people will die,
making hospital acquired infections a
top- 10 killer. Complicating this
epidemic, a strain of antibiotic resistant
staph infections (MRSA) has emerged
in hospitals worldwide.
The recent rise in hospital acquired
infections and the lack of an effective
treatment for MRSA has prompted
healthcare providers to reexamine their
cleaning protocols in an effort to reduce
cross contaminations. In response to
the demand from major hospitals, Seal
Shield has developed a family of common computer input devices which can
be disinfected and washed to prevent
the spread of bacterial infection.
Recent studies have shown the
computer keyboard and mouse to be
a major source of cross contamination
infections. According to Dr. Daniel LeP-era, “Bacteria that reside in the upper
mouth or respiratory tract can travel to
an in-office computer keyboard and survive as long as 24 hours. Viruses can
live on them for one hour or more.”
Previous attempts to properly clean
and disinfect keyboards have proven
ineffective due to the keyboard’s
electronic circuitry. Existing solutions
have either been cost-prohibitive or
unreliable. Even so-called “spill proof”
or “washable” keyboards have been
shown to be ineffective. Although those
products may be water resistant to a
point, they are not fully submersible and
not dishwasher safe.
“The SEAL SHIELD Medical Grade
Washable Keyboard and Mouse are the
only solutions which are fully submersible and dishwasher safe. Our products have been designed for healthcare,
but are aggressively priced for the mass
market,” states Bradley Whitchurch,
Chief Executive Officer at Seal Shield.
“SEAL SHIELD Medical Grade washable
input devices, combined with effective
cleaning protocols, represent a proven
and economical solution for reducing
hospital infection rates.”
For more information about SEAL
SHIELD products, visit www.Seal
Shield.com.
NEWEST MEMBERS
OF PIC FAMILY
Microchip Technology, Inc., is now
offering a new 12-member
PIC18F87J11 general-purpose, high-performance eight-bit microcontroller
family, which has up to 20% greater
performance with 12 MIPS ( 48 MHz),
enhanced peripherals, and lower sleep
power consumption. With its breadth
of family members, the PIC18F87J11
also provides a wide range of program
memory and peripherals, ranging from
most cost effective to feature rich.
Microchip ( www.microchip.com)
is expanding its 3V PIC18F J-series of
eight-bit microcontrollers to address
cost-sensitive markets requiring
high performance. Additionally, the
PIC18F87J11 general-purpose family
includes nanowatt technology for low
power consumption in sleep mode —
as low as 100 nA — which is ideal for
battery-powered applications. Finally,
the PIC18F87J11 is the first eight-bit
microcontroller to offer the Parallel
Master Port for connection to external
memory and displays.
Consumer and industrial applications include: wireless Internet-enabled
appliances, hands-free cell phone
adapters, white good appliances, game
controllers, cappuccino machines,
two-way pagers, TCP/IP interfaces,
home-alarm/security-system keypads,
server power-supply and temperature
controllers, power-meter hubs, security panels, data logging, and central AC
communication controllers. NV
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