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I'm willing to bet Google Glass has a lot more nooks and crannies for the little bugs to hide than a normal pair of eyeglasses.

• jessriedel 13y ago
  Yea, and smartphone have a lot fewer nooks than traditional cell phones since they have no keys. Better do a study to see if we should recommend that all doctors upgrade from their old Nokia!
• Fomite 13y ago
  > Yea, and smartphone have a lot fewer nooks than traditional cell phones since they have no keys. Better do a study to see if we should recommend that all doctors upgrade from their old Nokia! Um...trying to figure out what to do about smartphones and the contaminants they carry is a very active area of discussion in infection control right now.
  • eric_h 13y ago
    Yes, but you can not use a smart phone while treating patients. If you're using Google Glass, you can't really not use it, especially if the reason you're wearing it is to help patients. I do believe this is a solvable problem (as do the people working on it, I'd imagine), but it hasn't been solved yet. Perhaps a sealant on the device plus a cleaning regimen will do the trick, but right now I'd put google glass somewhere near neckties (glad that that's been largely dealt with), lab coats and, well, pretty much anything that has places that will readily harbor foreign bacteria as a terrible thing to wear from room to room in a hospital. So I guess that given the state of things right now (riddled with such harbors), it's perfectly reasonable to give the technical benefits of glass a try. Maybe we'll come up with some good software that will save some lives. (This may seem like a retraction, but I was really just comparing Google Glass vs regular glasses in my original reply). [Edit] this was intended as a reply to the person the parent was quoting.