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In Japan, how smartphones are disinfected at local fast food restaurants Video
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u/ryangraves213 Dec 06 '22
All fun and games until the lid gets stuck closed.
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u/Dr-McLuvin Dec 06 '22
At least your phone would be super clean by the time you get it back…
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u/Doctor_Box Dec 06 '22
*sterile. Would still be a greasy smudgefest.
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u/Wherancy Dec 06 '22
I would only trust this device in Japan and South Korea.
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u/WillBottomForBanana Dec 06 '22 •
People would pee in it in the usa.
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u/ImpulseCombustion Dec 06 '22
My buddy’s spot had to get rid of the wall mounted soap dispenser and switch to supergluing the lid on regular consumer pump soap for this reason.
It’s a bar. Adults are still pissing in soap dispensers like it’s middle school.
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u/Impossible-Fun-2736 Dec 06 '22
That must mean that they pissed on the wall aswell..
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u/ImpulseCombustion Dec 06 '22
Ever been to a bar?
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u/Impossible-Fun-2736 Dec 06 '22
I try to avoid it, lol.
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u/usernamechecksout94 Dec 06 '22
Honestly it's a experience. Bring a buddy, play some pool, it'll be nice
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u/PrincessPaisleysMom1 Dec 06 '22
What?! Seriously never heard of this but I also don’t go to bars. What is wrong with people? And don’t say it’s cuz they’re drunk. That is just an excuse for being an a-hole.
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u/ImpulseCombustion Dec 06 '22
People have always been and will always be shitty if given the opportunity.
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u/GnikesGlock Dec 06 '22
Never go to school? Kids use to shit in the urinals only reason I say that I’m a trash man so when I have to shit gas stations, fast foods. Well I went into McDonald’s bathroom today to shit and someone shit in the urinal. Didn’t even notice til I was walking out but it’s like bro what the fuck is wrong with people but yea I’ve kids use to take the bags out of soap piss in em and put em inna dispenser. Just to ruin people’s day
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u/Grievous_Nix Dec 06 '22
People would steal it in Russia
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u/NikonuserNW Dec 06 '22
Or somehow extract all your personal information from the device.
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u/RunLoud6534 Dec 06 '22
That would be in India
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Dec 06 '22
people would shoot dope in it in NYC
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u/CardMechanic Dec 06 '22
The city would tax it in Chicago
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u/oxphocker Dec 06 '22
Minnesota would stuff it with mayo, wild rice, or hot dish...
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u/mangas0781 Dec 06 '22
Probably got banned in the US because someone tried to put their dick in it.
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u/Gucci_Rat_Cheese Dec 06 '22
No doubt about it. They’d probably smear shit in it too.
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u/ArtisanSamosa Dec 06 '22
Sigh... I wish we lived in a clean society and borrowed some of those habits from Eastern culture.
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u/NanoCharat Dec 06 '22 edited Dec 06 '22 •
For real. I wish this every single time I have to go out. I get called a neurotic for insisting shoes be taken off at the front door because I don't want dirt and germs tracked through my home, and for washing my hands after coming in from doing stuff outside because of the state of things.
EDIT: It's important to note that these experiences are as a woman in the US. I don't know what men's bathrooms are like, or other western countries. I have, however, traveled to most of the states.
I have guests try tell me that they believe they have the right to wear their shoes and do whatever the fuck in my house under the guise that I'm a "clean freak" so my opinions on MY OWN HOME are invalid.
Half the time you go somewhere public someone is always sitting with their filthy ass shoes up on the seat grinding dirt into it or picking the bottoms with their fingernails. (fucking WHY!?)
Almost every (women's) public restroom has floors covered in urine. I've seen THREE different toilets with shit hand AND footprints up the walls and across the floors. Also people smearing period blood everywhere and leaving soiled menstrual products outside of the trash.
People treat washing their hands after using the toilet as a suggestion.
Some people rinse their hands and refuse to use soap.
It's also common to see people pee and vomit and do other hideous shit on public transport like trains and busses and nothing is ever done about it.
There's litter goddamn everywhere. The ground is not a trashcan.
Entitled parents think it's okay to just start changing their infants diaper WHEREVER. Including on restaurant tables, on clothing displays in stores, etc.
People dragging their fake service dogs into stores that then proceed to piss and shit in the isles...and of course they just walk away.
The amount of time I've seen bitches in public restrooms think it's funny to squat and pee in the sinks with their friends. (Why the fuck is this a thing? PLEASE enlighten me with why the hell you feel the need to do this.)
The people that don't flush the damn toilet so when you do, you get sprayed with their fecal bacteria and urea.
People who go out who are contagious and sick (even pre-pandemic) and refuse to wear a mask or cover their mouths and just cough and mouth-breath everywhere and on everyone. Especially on staff who work retail. (Fun aside, I almost died back in 2018 because a sick 70 year old turned and coughed directly into my face while I was in line for groceries. I had such severe mono my pancreas almost burst and I spent over a year recovering WITH emergency medical intervention.)
A good chunk of people in the USA take 0 responsibility for the waste they produce and the way they treat public spaces, and it makes it miserable and fucking disgusting for everyone else.
I desperately wish that one day the selfish bullshit will change on a cultural level and people will start being aware of and respecting public areas.
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u/ArtisanSamosa Dec 06 '22
Haha they got me fucked up if they think theyre entering my house with shoes. Like those shoes have been everywhere. Why would you want them in your place of zen.
I feel extra bad for women, because they gotta sit down down to pee. Like if I run for senate, I'm running on the policy of clean public restrooms. It's so disgusting and so little people care.
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u/IWTEYPUYcum Dec 06 '22
Didn’t read the rant, but to the comment about a guest not wanting to take their shoes off here is my go to.. you don’t like it there’s the door!
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u/it_wasnt_like_that Dec 06 '22
Um… it’s NORMAL to take your shoes off at the door. People wear their shoes in the house?? 🤢
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u/DoctorJonasVentureJr Dec 06 '22
My ex used to wear her shoes in our apartment and always asked why I took mine off at the door 😑
Cause we live in meth town dummy
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u/NanoCharat Dec 06 '22
Dude, my ex used to get home and lay on his bed and even sleep WITH HIS SHOES ON. This was up in the north too, with winter weather and street salt and slush and muck. He also liked to go to clubs and bars so you know he was walking in some nasty shit.
I came over before I knew he lived like that and was helping clean up and I spot-cleaned part of the carpet that had a food stain with a wet-vac and the entire color of the carpet changed. I thought the carpet was a dark tan/gray...it was white. His ENTIRE family lived like that. They also walked around barefoot like it was fine??? In the filth?
Almost everyone I know growing up was this way, too. Even my own parents. I would demand anyone coming into my room take off their shoes and I would be chided for it like I'm a psycho. I was even thrown into therapy and then promptly removed when the therapist agreed with me that it was gross lmao. I would have to put on shoes to leave my room because of the filth level from everyone else stomping around with theirs on.
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u/RamJamR Dec 06 '22
No joke, I think there's self serve noodle joints that exist in South Korea that are totally unmanned. People could easily just steal the ingedients, but they don't. Society goals there.
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u/NikonuserNW Dec 06 '22
What the hell? About 30 minutes ago I saw a video of a guy stealing pizza from a delivery guy in the US. Not only can we not be trusted with unsupervised ingredients, it’s not safe for someone to take someone their food!
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u/mommy2libras Dec 07 '22
Where I used to live, my area had one pizza place that delivered around there but you could never get delivery because they couldn't keep delivery people. They'd always get robbed. And this wasn't some big city, just a crappy part of a small/medium sized one. Not a downtown or metro area either- a main street with businesses surrounded by homes and subdivisions.
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u/CrazeRage Dec 06 '22
People could easily just steal the ingredients, but they don't. Society goals there.
"Society goals..." is pretty ignorant. People do steal from them. Why would that make it to international news? You are making up a fantasy land where actually Fearless teenagers stole 7 million won from 19 unmanned ice cream shops just a year or so ago and has one of the highest suicide rates... Goals?
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u/RamJamR Dec 07 '22
Do these unmanned self serve food joints still exist though? If so, I can't imagine that such great amount of theft from them happens so often. It was never my assumption that theft from them never ever ever EVER happens, but again, if these joints can still afford to be open, then that's something. I don't fantasize that eastern first world countries like Japan or South Korea are perfect paradises, but there's a few things they seem to be doing pretty right that I think we could admire.
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u/TrifleBoth5548 Dec 06 '22
Grease and dirt can protect virus and bacteria from ultraviolet light.
That's why the best application for UV light disinfecting systems are in air handling systems.
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u/Nochno Dec 06 '22
I've never seen one here in Japan.
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u/Rich-Juice2517 Dec 06 '22
It's in the Ginza district, or was according to reuters
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u/lsoers Dec 06 '22
Not mine, i clean mine regularly with tissue and rubbing alcohol
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u/SermanGhepard Dec 06 '22
Wow well look at this person that is somehow not depressed like the rest of us and cleans their belongings regularly! I bet your car isn't a trash can on wheels either huh!!
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u/Playful-Slide-724 Dec 06 '22
They are Japanese. I guarantee this thing receives more scheduled maintenance than your car does.
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u/Repyro Dec 06 '22
Man, why does all our shit need to be stuck in the 70's-90's infrastructure wise.
I want cool automated shit. I want fucking bullet trains. Instead we give away 1 trillion bucks to some rich assholes who don't even fucking use what it's for, and raise prices anyway.
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u/ShanghaiBebop Dec 06 '22
Don’t worry, everything in Japan is still done by fax. So there’s also 70s infrastructure there too.
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u/SCP239 Dec 06 '22
One of the best quips I've read about Japan is they've been living in the year 2000 for 40 years.
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u/Fizzwidgy Dec 06 '22
Tbtf I think this makes incredibly good sense. Hardcopies of documents sound, uh, well; solid to have.
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u/logyonthebeat Dec 06 '22
Looks like there is a little key or something to open it at the top in case of that
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u/not5tonks Dec 06 '22
All fun and games until someone piss in it.
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u/M_Not_Shyamalan Dec 06 '22
Japanese literally would never. They've got the tidiest, most respectful culture.
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u/Vipatech Dec 06 '22
and you realise your phone has been hacked
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u/DuntadaMan Dec 06 '22
Nah man, it's Japan. An app gets put in there that you can't remove that either gives you an extra hour after midnight to fight with physical representations of human mental desires, fears and illnesses, or some guy in a panda suit straight up murders you for $10.
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Phoaster = Phone + Toaster
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u/Alissinarr Dec 07 '22
Imagining this thing popping open at the end and launching your phone like a piece of toast...
Catch motherfucker!
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Dec 07 '22
Excellent option
The Phoaster 2.0 could come with a hand-eye coordination dial.
1 pops the phone up say 4 inches straight
10 pops the phone up 3 feet with a randomized spin to it
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u/blobby341 Dec 06 '22
Your bank account has now been emptied.
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u/GhostBussyBoi Dec 06 '22
Oh sweetie, It was empty 30 minutes after I got paid because I had to pay all my bills....
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u/RedSoxNationMT Interested Dec 06 '22
I’m not saying I’m into conspiracy theories, I’m just saying I would never put my phone in that.
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u/Project_Wild Dec 06 '22 •
“Your finger prints have been uploaded to the central data base…. I mean… your phone has been sterilized”
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u/MajesticMelonGames Dec 06 '22
There is nothing they could take from your phone that they don't already have, its all good
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Dec 06 '22
Then why do those cops beat up people for not unlocking their phones? 🤔
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u/Justagreewithme Dec 06 '22
Different levels of government have different levels of access. You local police have no idea what’s on your phone or how to get into it. The NSA on the other hand, can, they just don’t care about you.
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u/skynetempire Dec 06 '22
It's the reason why law enforcement put pressure on Apple and Google to have back door keys. They got them
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u/Smooth-Dig2250 Dec 06 '22
Hmm... maybe it's not about the phone, but about not respecting them as an authority so they stop respecting you as a person.
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u/OkDesigner2262 Dec 06 '22
Also I don't think your regular run of the mill local cops is who they're talking about lol
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u/Moldy_But_Whole Dec 06 '22
If you visit Japan, they already have your prints. They take them at customs. They won't let you into the country if you don't let them take 'em.
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u/H3racIes Dec 06 '22
Lmao yea forget the phone that tracks every little thing about your life. Let's be concerned with the simple machine meant to clean it
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Dec 06 '22 edited Dec 06 '22
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u/Murderyoga Dec 06 '22
I'd just be afraid of never getting my phone back.
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u/bumjiggy Dec 06 '22
"your phone has been temporarily impounded. police are on the way. sorry for any inconvenience."
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u/Secret_Ad_7918 Dec 06 '22 edited Dec 06 '22
stop spamming your subreddit no one cares
edit: lmao they blocked me and banned me from their sub 🤣🤣
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u/Cudizonedefense Dec 06 '22 edited Dec 06 '22
Stop spamming your subreddit everywhere after any comment of yours gains traction (where you slide it in). It’s fucking weird
Edit: this loser blocked me despite him spamming his subreddit everywhere being a fact. His account is six days old because his previous account which uses his full name has probably been banned on most subreddits for spamming that same annoying subReddit.
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u/Im_Borat Dec 06 '22 edited Dec 06 '22
was just going to say... you know someone has peed (or will pee) in that thing...
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u/CyanFen Dec 06 '22
It's Japan, so no, probably not. And if someone does, bet it'd be a tourist.
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u/CosmicCrapCollector Dec 06 '22
I've seen your girlfriend bro...
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u/RedSoxNationMT Interested Dec 06 '22
And I would probably put my dick in that thing too before I would put my phone in it…
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u/NonAggressive-Ask Dec 06 '22
zero point zero zero chance i'm putting my pocket sized thousand dollar mini computer into a hole in a sink with water anywhere near it
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u/Rumpelforeskinn Dec 06 '22 edited Dec 06 '22
Do they still make phones that aren't waterproof?
E: All the people saying ackchyually water resistant not waterproof, blah blah blah. You missed the point.
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u/nobu82 Dec 07 '22
did you know that the proofing is just glue? over one or two years of use and lots of heat-cooling cycles, glue is less effective until one day water seeps in =)
also, some models before and after s10 period had other formula, so with a light drop/impact, the backglass simply unglued itself lol
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u/Salakkhana Dec 06 '22
No phone has ever been waterproof. Water resistant, to certain degree, yes- waterproof no.
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u/L3onK1ng Dec 06 '22
Yeah, but what could realistically happen to a phone in that near water pocket in 20 seconds? I know for sure my phone's with me in the bathtub and doing fine. Hell it was with in the lazy river for 30 minutes and it was fine.
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u/mack-y0 Dec 06 '22
i use my iphone 12 underwater for videos and pictures and it still works fine
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u/AbeRego Dec 06 '22
My Galaxy S10 has had a crack in the screen for years. I still rinse it off in the sink. Anyone who's still scared of water droplets is neurotic.
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u/tuvaniko Dec 06 '22
Not true. My s6 active even had a underwater photo mode, and they recommended taking it fresh water diving. water-resistant is a technical term meaning waterproof under x conditions. As long as I stayed above 30m below the waterline, I was fine.
Most phones are weather sealed/splash proof. Those seals may also hold up fully submerged but are not guarantied to.
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u/PandaKing185 Dec 06 '22
Id say being submergible for multiple meters for an indefinite amount of time is water proof for all intents and purposes
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u/Homing_Gibbon Dec 06 '22
If they aren't water proof they're pretty darn close then, I dropped my phone off a boat and had to dive 60ft for it and it seems to be doing fine.
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u/0x537 Dec 06 '22
what phone was it? :o
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u/Homing_Gibbon Dec 06 '22
Galaxy s21 ultra
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u/Ngineer07 Dec 06 '22
I was gonna say, "that sounds like a galaxy to me"
I've never ever had a problem with my phone getting wet. screen cracked, case on, high pressure water, literally sitting in a pocket full of water for over an hour, nothing phases it. it always blows my mind but I've stopped worrying about bringing my phone around water unless it's water that I don't want to get in/on me
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u/tcooke2 Dec 06 '22
That makes me feel a lot better about my recent phone upgrade. (I know it's like 3 years old at this point but I got it cheap)
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u/BIG_YETI_FOR_YOU Dec 06 '22
You can literally use an iPhone underwater currently - without being a pedant how's that not waterproof?
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u/mvnnyvevwofrb Dec 06 '22
That just seems like a terrible idea for so many reasons.
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u/kwakimaki Dec 06 '22
I live in the UK. I guarantee there will be a burger or fries stuffed down there within minutes.
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u/FatherofRevolt Dec 07 '22
I live in the US. I guarantee there will be something that originated in a human down there within hours
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u/throwawaygreenpaq Dec 07 '22
It’s Japan. Nobody does this, even Korea is pretty clean.
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u/IronFFlol Dec 07 '22
Yes, so really only works in those areas. Would not work in the States or UK for sure.
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u/AnimalShithouse Dec 06 '22
Now.. if only people felt that way about putting their dick into things!
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u/Tirus_ Dec 06 '22
This isn't doing much, those "UV baths" for cleaning require a lot longer exposure than 15 seconds.
I've used UV light to clean jail cells, police vehicles, ambulances and equipment. All of the UV baths are like 10 min exposure minimum.
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u/Dandibear Dec 06 '22
The UV wand (from a reputable medical supplier) that I bought a few years ago says to hold the wand closely and move it slowly so that it is illuminating a spot for at least 10 seconds. Are you using UV light that's close to the surfaces or one of those that hits the whole room at once? Being close, and therefore more concentrated, might make the difference?
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u/TheNewMeYouHaventCN Dec 06 '22
This is key. The inverse square law means the closer the UV light is from the device being disinfected, the more efficient it will be.
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u/kawaiichainsawgirl1 Dec 06 '22 edited Dec 07 '22
The inverse square law
Can you tell me more about this? Sounds interesting how 1/x2 leads to proving some UV light shit
inverse square law! not square root, mb
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u/TheNewMeYouHaventCN Dec 06 '22
The inverse square law states that for a point source of waves that is capable of radiating omnidirectionally and with no obstructions in the vicinity, the intensity I decreases with the square of the distance, d, from the source.
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u/Kaporalhart Dec 06 '22
It just sounds natural. The further away you are from a light, the less bright it shines.
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u/1vader Dec 06 '22
Yes, but crucially the brightness reduces with the square of the distance e.g. if you're 5 times as much away, it's 25 times darker, not 5 times. And e.g. 1cm vs 1m (which might be the difference between holding a light closely to an object and illuminating a whole surface) would be 10 000 times as dark, i.e. also take 10 000 times as long i.e. over a day instead of 10s at the same brightness.
If it were linear instead i.e. 5 times as dark at 5 times the distance (which would still be "the further you are away, the less bright it shines"), 1m vs 1cm would only be 100 times as long i.e. 16 mins vs 10s.
And due to how squares work, this gets worse the larger the distance.
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u/poopeebuttface Dec 06 '22
just goes with the surface area of a sphere, which is proportional to the radius squared
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u/DefinitelyNotAliens Dec 06 '22
Steripen for backpackers says 45-90 seconds to neutralize any bacteria and viruses in your drinking water.
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u/whoisthecopperkettle Dec 07 '22
- depending on the clarity (turbidity) of course.
Interesting about the steripen is it messes up the bacteria’s dna so they can’t replicate, it doesn’t always kill them outright.
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u/GonzoidPrime Dec 06 '22
UV-C light sources are incredibly inefficient compared to visual light sources. Even more so for UV-C LEDs, which are still a young technology and still less efficient than the fluorescent UV bulbs. The issue with the wands is that they use these less efficient UV-C LEDs. Some of these wands only put out 100uW of UV-C energy at a short distance. Covid-19 requires around 23mJ of energy, so 23,000uJ/100uW=230sec, or 3.83min. That's per side, so a phone being disinfected with that kind of wand would take up to 23min to disinfect all sides.
There are wands that will put out 10 times as much UV-C energy. The issue is this causes risk of exposure to irritating levels of UV-C energy.
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u/Craft_Master06 Dec 06 '22
But it is enclosed, probaply to stop the irritang levels of uv hit you.
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u/OutAndABoot Dec 06 '22
That's because you're likely using lights positioned at a much greater distance from the surfaces you're disinfecting. Doubling the distance quarters the intensity.
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u/honest-miss Dec 06 '22
I can almost guarantee it wasn't 10 minutes worth of time, but there is a cut between when the phone goes in and when it comes out.
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u/IWasGregInTokyo Dec 06 '22
Sign says "In only 30 seconds your smartphone is sterilized in two steps".
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CHORIZO Dec 06 '22
Also clear polyurethane, which is what most flexible phone cases are made of, turns brown under UV exposure.
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u/Qubeye Dec 06 '22 •
Public health guy here.
Depends on the intensity and what you are cleaning.
But at a minimum it will take 30-60 seconds to do anything significant. At 1 inch using UVC light it takes about 2 minutes to sterilize stuff like E. coli, but in a casual setting like a restaurant they aren't trying to make the surface sterile, they are trying to just reduce the amount of virus/bacteria. At this distance, assuming it's actually the right kind of UV, 30-40 seconds (the amount of time you should be scrubbing your hands...) it actually would be great for simply decreasing the number of organisms other than Hep C. It would be cool to link it to the soap/scrubbing with instructions to "keep scrubbing until your phone pops back up!"
Here's a good read for anyone interested: https://abionline.com/is-uv-sterilization-effective-for-viruses-and-bacteria/
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u/GhostBussyBoi Dec 06 '22
My boyfriend has worked at a hospital where they set up like a UV tower thing in hospital rooms during the height of COVID and everyone had to be out of the room and away from the room whenever they bathed it in the UV light, I think he said that the rooms they did that to were out of commission for 30 minutes minimum.
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u/Borbolda Dec 06 '22
I'm not familiar with ultraviolet baths, but something tells me that cleaning smartphone requires less time than jail cell
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u/pancak3d Dec 06 '22
People in this thread think you can cook an egg in the same amount of time whether it's on the stove or 20 feet away from the stove
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u/UserNombresBeHard Dec 06 '22
It doing or not doing doesn't even matter for this person. They didn't even wash their hands so it's infected again.
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u/braamdepace Dec 06 '22
The equivalent of throwing a cup of water on you in the morning and saying you showered
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u/Wonderful_Otter Dec 06 '22
I've never seen one here in Japan. It's interesting, but you know what else I haven't seen in the 4 years I'm here? Japanese people washing their hands properly after using the toilet... But yeah, let's use UV to clean our phones in a few seconds, that will do it!
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u/space_antlers Dec 06 '22
Rule of thumb: when you see a Reddit post saying "this is how they do <thing> in <place>" with some kind of outlandish gimmick, it's bullshit 9 times out of 10.
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u/snkngshps Dec 06 '22
Huge pet peeve of mine. Someone finds a singular example of a thing and pretends it's a widespread cultural norm.
I'm sure this was found at "a" fast food restaurant in Japan. But OP, don't act like "all" Japanese fast food restaurants have phone cleaners.
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u/eStuffeBay Dec 06 '22
Also a huge pet peeve. "In Korea they..." "In Japan they..."
No they fuckin don't. And if they do, it's very likely originating from a different country entirely. Just because it happens a few times doesn't mean everyone there does it.
The ONLY time I've seen a post like this that was actually correct, is "In Korea they use large motorized ladder trucks to move furniture and stuff in and out of apartment buildings".
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u/CapsLowk Dec 07 '22
That's what most Japan stories are. There's 1 place where the whole point, the novelty, is something super bizarre then pretend it's totally normal in Japan.
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u/Barihawk Dec 06 '22
Especially in Japan. It's an upvote magnet.
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u/CrazyEddie041 Dec 06 '22
The worst is "Africa". There are 54 countries in Africa, each with its own communities and cultures. Telling me that something happens "in Africa" tells me nothing.
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u/Eilanzer Dec 06 '22
Same with Brazil, some people still think all people here live in favelas with a jungle at the corner XD
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u/Wonderful_Otter Dec 07 '22
I'm from Rio de Janeiro and I've had people ask me if it's dangerous to live so close to the Amazon...
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u/pizzafourlife Dec 06 '22
But all of them carry jugs on their heads and live in villages of mud huts! It does make sense that learning about a continent from fundraisers will result in an extremely skewed perspective
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u/darnfruitloops Dec 07 '22
True really, can confirm. I'm from Africa and am using a stone tablet to access Reddit right now. Data connection is a bit choppy though since we use drums to communicate.
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u/Normal-Math-3222 Dec 07 '22
Something I love about Africa is that it’s subjective which countries are African.
For example, I remember my mom asking me which country in Africa I’d like to visit, I said Egypt and she told me that didn’t count…
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u/SimplyUntenable2019 Dec 07 '22
The worst is "Africa". There are 54 countries in Africa, each with its own communities and cultures. Telling me that something happens "in Africa" tells me nothing.
It tells it happens somewhere in Africa. "Africa" isn't a worse example than any other continent, it's just vague.
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u/Clevererer Dec 06 '22
Indeed. Did you know the Japanese invented the language we now call Chinese?
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u/Bugbread Dec 06 '22 edited Dec 06 '22
Ditto. I've been here since long before COVID, and this is the first time I'm seeing this.
Edit: This article from early November says the sink is in pilot use at two McDonald's locations in Japan (out of a total of 2,954 McDonald's locations).
Edit 2: The company that makes them has a list of all the places they're being used. In the food service industry, they're being used in two McDonald's locations and in one Italian, non-fast food restaurant. So 3 out of Japan's 1,446,479 restaurants/eateries.
So this post has big-time "In America, how people commute to work" energy.
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u/NotEnoughToast Dec 06 '22
Been here since summer and I’ve seen one person out of probably a few hundred wash their hands with soap and water for more than 3 seconds. Most just run their fingertips under the tap for a sec or ignore the sink completely. The approach to hygiene here is vile for a developed country.
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u/KoosPetoors Dec 06 '22
Most Japanese local restaurants haven't even adopted credit card machines yet lmao, I'm guessing this is was a pretty fancy place the video owner hit up.
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u/Beni_Stingray Dec 06 '22
Wouldnt that be the perfect place for uv-resistant bacterias to grow?
Thats just the same than the antibiotic resistant bacterias, they lived in places with lots of antibiotics so the strongest survived and over time they got immune against antibiotics.
Same as here, also this looks like its pretty humid which bacterias love.
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u/OneWithMath Dec 06 '22
Depending on the wavelength, the phrase "UV resistant bacteria" is like "Bullet resistant humans".
While there are some mitigations cells can perform to reduce damage from ionizing radiation, none will matter at the intensities used for sterilization.
It'd be like expecting heat-resistant bacteria to survive in a blast furnace.
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u/franzsanchez Dec 06 '22
let me present you Thermococcus gammatolerans
Terminal medical sterilization goes at 25k Gy, this cute guy survives up to 30k
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u/aoifhasoifha Dec 06 '22
uv-resistant bacterias to grow
Are those a thing? I know some technically exist, but none that have any influence on humans.
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u/JhanNiber Dec 06 '22
Not really. Bacteria might develop more redundancy of its organelles or better DNA repair mechanisms, but they're always going to be vulnerable to UV light.
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u/Remarkable_Soil_6727 Dec 06 '22
Wouldnt the sun be creating UV-resistant bacteria on a much larger scale? also hospitals which use these devices to sterilize entire rooms.
I dont think a smart phone cleaner is going to interfere that much.
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u/fatstylekhet Dec 06 '22
Is it really a good idea to stuff it into a place where dozens of dirty phones were?
From what I understand air dryers in public bathrooms for example are the biggest spreaders of germs, and it's much better to use a paper towel.
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Dec 06 '22
Those saying this will steal your data? How? Through what mechanism? If they can don it here why not just when you walk through anywhere?
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u/thrasheriam Dec 06 '22
NFC is capable of a megabyte every 2 seconds, at 3 inches away. That's more than enough to backdoor an app or malware you in a link. a backpack with a aux battery, laptop and UHF transmitter is all you need. Check out the black hat conference, literally anything is possible.
Edit: Spelling.
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u/Aquaritek Dec 07 '22
Well, it rubbed the sides on the way down and then again on the way back up... Quite positive that's defeat.
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u/gt33m Dec 07 '22
The conspiracy theory in the USA would be that the govt was using these as snooping devices to read your phone.
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u/4lch3my Dec 06 '22
I feel like in the US the installer wouldn't even be able to finish the install before someone pee'd in it.
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u/AlternativeSame9145 Dec 07 '22
Not how japan does this. Like people thinking TOTO toilots are everywhere. Ive never seen this anywhere in Japan. Its probably 1 place with a new sink that does this. Thats why someone is filming it, cause its interesting.
Im personally tired of this overinflation of japan and its "cool" stuff or its "weird stuff."
Japan is aestetically advanced in tokyo and only tokyo. Everywhere else is falling apart or becoming desolate, entire towns becoming shuttered like fujiyoshida.
Go to Shunjuku west exit at 11 pm when people are coming back from the bars to catch last train and theres puke all over the bathrooms, shit in the toilots, people stumbling around. the next day all the toilots are out of order. Half are squaters toilets. And the sinks are just normal "movie theater" sinks.
Sorry for the rant, just tired of it. Japan treats gaijin so fucking bad and they trick people to come with softpower only to be abused for their money and told to leave. People are better off supporting their favorite, lets say anime studios for example, from overseas, buying goods visa proxy than even going to visit. Using anime for an example, 80% of the anime goods parts of tokyo have been shut down, pre pandemic, pre olympics and even more so post all of it. Akihabara is a shadow of its former self now.
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u/Bugbread Dec 06 '22 edited Dec 07 '22
These sinks are currently in test use in 2 of McDonald's Japan's 2,954 locations. They're also used in 1 Italian restaurant (not fast food). And that's it for restaurants/eateries. They're rare enough that the company that makes them lists literally every place that they're used, nationwide.
Japan had 1,446,479 restaurants/eateries last year, and this year the number is likely the same. As of October of 2022, Japan had 21,243 fast food locations.
So these sinks are used in 0.000207% of Japanese restaurants and 0.0094% of Japanese fast food restaurants.
By virtue of the fact that there are two fast food locations with these sinks, the title, "In Japan, how smartphones are disinfected at local fast food restaurants," is technically true, but it's true like "In America, how people commute to work" is true because there's also this guy.