USA Today – “…Americans check their phones nearly 100 times a day — at least once every 10 minutes — and touch it an average of 2,617 times during waking hours, according to one study. That’s a whole lot of chances for some gross germy thing to hop, skip, or jump from your smartphone to your skin (or worse, straight into your mouth).  Hand washing is one of the best ways to prevent the spread of disease, according to the CDC. Since our smartphones are like a third hand, failing to wash them regularly is an enormous flaw in an otherwise solid infection-prevention scheme. But how do you properly sanitize a phone without damaging it?…” [h/t Pete Weiss]