"Little Moe" can destroy the Ebola virus in seconds.

[Avalux]

I'd like to see some of our 400 richest Americans buy a bunch of these, and provide them to treatment facilities in Ebola hotspots. Wouldn't that be a good use of all that cash?





The robot (Little Moe) rolls around on four wheels and uses xenon, a non-toxic gas, to create the ultraviolet rays needed to destroy viruses.

It blasts 1.5 pulses per second up to ten feet (three metres) in every direction to kill viruses including Ebola. Light that is 25,000 times bright than sunlight is created in each flash.

'Our robot ensures the room is safe for the next patient by destroying germs on high-touch surfaces, and in hard to clean nooks and crannies,' a spokesperson for Xenex said.

It takes just two minutes for the robot to destroy Ebola on a surface, while other viruses can be eradicated in five minutes.
Such technology, using UV rays to sterilise a room, has been around for decades, but Little Moe speeds up the process by using xenon in place of mercury.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2783407/Ebola-killing-ROBOT-destroy-virus-minutes-Little-Moe-uses-flashes-25-000-times-brighter-sunlight-kill-diseases.html

[Little Star]

1. Every hospital needs one......

I like Little Moe.

[Avalux]

2. I think I'm in love with Little Moe!

[Hoppy]

20. -

[underpants]

3. Yes we all need a little moe

oh that was bad of me

[Little Star]

5. lol

[Avalux]

8. Yes it was, but funny!

[Hoppy]

22. I didn't have my reading glasses on. i though you posted we all need a little 'Hoe.

I could use one of those.

[Warpy]

18. Oh, same here!

I adore Little Moe and wish we'd had one when noroviruses were making the rounds.

A super bright UV light would be fantastic for terminal cleaning after patients with highly infectious viral illnesses had been discharged. It also wipes out a lot of bacteria, starting with E. coli and MRSA.

Then the cleaners could be brought in to a safer room to clean with normal procedures.

Whoever invented this thing is going to die rich. I hope.

ETA: They're $104,000 per unit right now. I hope the demand is enough to drop the price.

[MJJP21]

25. The cost of XENON

The cost of XENON is around $14,000 for a welding size cylinder of around 200 cubic feet. That price was 10 years ago .

[NightWatcher]

4. No, we need more war machines

What if a defense contractor owned a company that made the Little Moe? Then you'd see them on every street corner. I'd rather my taxes go to that instead of more weapons.

[KamaAina]

6. I doubt anything could live in here

[underpants]

10. Barney?

[Warpy]

19. I wonder if that's the inspiration for the name

After all, our local baseball team is the Isotopes, inspired by a Simpson's episode.

[Octafish]

7. Mass produce them.

Little Moes every where germs want to be.

[Avalux]

9. Yep. They could use these when people die in their homes....

I watched a heartbreaking story about kids in Liberia who lost their mom to Ebola, she died in the house. They burned the house down (common practice) and now have nowhere to live.

[riversedge]

11. Here is some info about the machine...

Seems like TX could make a mint if they could mass produce the machine.--very quickly


http://www.xenex.com/

[Avalux]

12. Yep! Made in my hometown too - which I did not even know until I read that!

Very cool.

[riversedge]

17. I do not know if manufactured there?? says 'created' whatever

that means. But hope they are not outsourced. looks like they are used in Europe also. If I had money to spare, I would buy some stock

[librechik]

13. cheaper than 5 workers and 60 gals of bleach

times 3000

[hifiguy]

14. Interesting.

Completely non-toxic as it uses nothing but an inert gas and light. Why isn't this technology EVERYWHERE? Oh, that's right, the super-rich need that fifth vacation home...

[world wide wally]

21. 5th vacation home? More like their 100th and each with a 200' yacht except the villa in Aspen

That one is just a private ski lift.

Not to mention their money in the account in Grand Cayman

[MADem]

26. The inert gas is a bit pricy. They need to work on that price point, I guess... nt

[Whiskeytide]

15. Hmmm... if the .001% buy them, I fear....

... it would only be to position them strategically around their own compounds and fortresses to ward off the virus during the coming Zomebola Apocalypse.

But... maybe I'm too cynical.

[Avalux]

16. Maybe....but then again.......

This is a hoax, obviously, found on the internets. And I guess it's not ok to laugh about it (or maybe it is), but I can't believe they actually print this stuff.

[Fred Sanders]

23. A little bit of caution, viruses evolve, reliance on UV rays to kill all viruses may be too good to

be truly able to deliver us from this latest evil.

Not to mention it does not kill the virus in the infected person and there has been no testing done on Ebola and proper regular precautions are just as effective.....too good to be true, like a miracle pill for obesity.

[Barack_America]

31. An RNA virus could never stand a chance against this intensity of UV.

Its genome would be sheared to bits, there would be nothing left to mutate.

[littlemissmartypants]

24. Give me Moe. nt

[Kablooie]

27. I wonder what it would do to Little Curlys?

[Duer 157099]

28. Nyuk nyuk nyuk

(is that how you spell it?)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

30. I can guess what it would do, but would it be less painful than waxing?

[Duer 157099]

29. The guys in The Strain could use those too n/t