Do not touch
A team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has built a prototype to combat the current coronavirus pandemic: an electronic pendant that scolds you every time you raise your hands to your face.
The small device, called PULSE, has a simple design. It is equipped with an infrared proximity sensor, a coin-sized vibration motor, and a three-volt battery. Once it realizes that you are about to touch your face, the vibration motor is activated.
Leave it alone
Health experts have long recommended that you refrain from touching your face to minimize the risk of COVID-19 infection. All it takes is a brief touch to spread the pathogens from the hands to the mouth or nose.
NASA has no plans to start selling the device, but has generously made all plans for the small open source device, from schematics for electronics to files for 3D printing the case.
Don’t try this at home
The team appears to have been much more successful in developing a device to prevent it from touching your face than Australian astrophysicist Daniel Reardon, who received four small magnets stuck in his nose in late March while trying to develop a similar device.
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