Skeet Wang.
I just wanted that name to hang there by itself for a bit. Look at it. It’s majestic. It’s unique. It’s the name of the industrial designer who’s going to save us all from the danger of elevator buttons.
See, according to Skeet, the average elevator button is home to 3,500 bacteria per square inch of surface space. Most of us don’t think twice about pusing those buttons to get to where we want to be, but maybe we should. Skeet does.
Skeet goes on to say that 3,500 bacteria is roughly 17 times the number of microorganisms found on the average toilet seat — and you don’t want to push too far to figure out if there’s any cross over at work between those two surfaces. So every day, we’re literally a button press away from contracting some horrible, heretofore unknown to science disease that could wipe out all life on Earth as we know it. So what do we do about it? Skeet says “Change the buttons”!
Yes, Skeet is working on a concave button design that will record your floor signal without your having to touch a single surface. And for those of you without the coordination to stick your finger into a hole without touching the sides, the sensors will also emit an ultraviolet field that will sterilize your fingertip to eliminate all possibility of being street-abducted by the Center for Disease Control and taken away to be forcibly sanitized … with love.
Oh, Skeet. You make the world a better place. I love you, man! Or woman. Or sentient robot. Whatever you are.
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