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Ask HN: Post-Covid tech we need when we reopen

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I was thinking what we need when we reopen post covid SIP has been lifted.

1. Robot janitors and autonomous mobile foggers for schools, offices and working spaces.

2. Ag robotics. Guaranteed. This is my domain and I can make a whole long post about what we’d need.

3. Mobile groceries

4. Mobile farmers markets

5. 3 day work week?

6. 3 day school week?

7. Wearables that detect temperatures of people around you.

8. Contactless thermometers/body temperature readers.

9. New ways to create screen entertainment...like movies etc.

10. Virtual entertainment/tourism/seminars etc.

11. Sex bots.

Anything else?

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There's a fundamental problem with the way public restrooms are used. A lot of restrooms still have doors that require opening by hand to get inside one. When someone needs to wash their hands because their hands are dirty, they're going to have to touch the doorknob with those dirty hands because the place to wash their dirty hands is on the inside.

Secondly, when most people need to go into a stall for a #2, they don't wash their hands before they use their hands to open the stall and then do their thing inside. They wash their hands after. Another aspect is the use of toilet paper from one toilet paper roll. You grab it to get some paper to clean your ass, then you touch it again some more. Then you go up, pull your pants up and then open the stall with your hands, then you finally wash your hands. Bathroom stalls can often be cramped too so some people can't operate without possibly rubbing against the stall walls, which can be pretty gross. Another flaw is that toilets get flushed with the toilet cover open. Imagine all the shit particles that get shot all around the stall.

I agree.

It can be solved easily with motion triggered door locks. And bidets/Japanese style toilets. There are many models available these days.

Why can’t we have nasal filter plugs instead of face masks?

Bluetooth microphone enabled face masks

Litmus paper like test strips?

Face masks

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