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KeySmart CleanTray: UV-C sterilize your phone, keys, earbuds, and much more

You still cleaning your phone, keys, and other bits that you handle daily? You should be, because COVID-19 hasn't gone away.

Written by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Senior Contributing Editor July 22, 2020 at 2:26 a.m. PT

It feels like only yesterday that everyone was busy washing their hands and sterilizing everything in sight to keep the COVID-19 at bay. Good job, but now is not the time to stop, and here is a simple tool to help you keep some of the things that you handle all the time clean and free of germs.

Enter the KeySmart CleanTray: A small USB-powered plastic box that contains four UV-C LED chips for sterilizing, well, pretty much any inanimate object you can get into the box.

You plug the box into a USB power supply, pop into its cavernous interior whatever you have in need of cleaning, press the button, and in five minutes the UV-C rays have done their job of blasting germs to bits.

And, according to the data, phones are disgusting, being home to ten times more germs than a toilet seat yet being something we handle dozens of times a day, and put up to our faces on a regular basis.

The CleanTray is super easy to use, looks smart in a home or office, and it's large enough so you can do your phone and other essentials in one session.

And while the CleanTray doesn't do away with washing your paws regularly, it's a handy way to clean things that aren't otherwise easy to clean with a Clorox wipes or disinfectant spray.

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KeySmart CleanTray