One of my top priorities with The Gatecrashers is that this world is real. So I need to find real technology to extrapolate the ‘later’ technology from. (or maybe just pull it as is and integrate).

This one is in the NY Times this morning.

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Hospital-Clean Hands, Without All the Scrubbing

By ANNE EISENBERG
Published: February 13, 2010
HOSPITAL workers often have to wash their hands dozens of times a day — and may need a minute or more to do the process right, by scrubbing with soap and water. But new devices could reduce the task to just four seconds, cleaning even hard-to-reach areas under fingernails.

read the rest in the NY Times.