INVESTIGATION: Weather Balloons, The Dirt on Hotels, And Killing Germs on Devices (SHORT BLOG)

Kickstarter - it's a website that people would go to in order to back projects, but for me, to a scale that would eventually connect both Wesley LaPorte, inventor of the PhoneSoap to CBC Vancouver meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe and even CBC Marketplace host Erica Johnson. My look at Kickstarter dated back to at least 2012 when I first backed the project known as the PhoneSoap, in which LaPorte noted that his genius work on a simple solution to kill germs on mobile devices have made their success. In this blog, I look at the comparison between the PhoneSoap to Erica Johnson's report on "The Dirt on Hotels" and even Johanna Wagstaffe's "Science Smart" 2014 report on weather balloons.

After the first backing of the initial project in 2012, and after my first trip to Vancouver, BC, on the last day of May 2014, I decided to surf the CBC website and found a couple of videos, starting with Wagstaffe's June 2014 "Science Smart" report on weather balloons. At the end of the video segment, she disclosed a Kickstarter project that indirectly caused me to back that project, known as the StormTag. I have plans to test the StormTag's use and report on that part in my blog.

Wagstaffe is not the only person that is the subject of this blog. In a CBC Marketplace episode known as "The Dirt on Hotels," including the follow-up episode a year later, Erica Johnson investigated the germs that plagued hotels and was trying to really get results for Canadians. However, alcohol wipes may not necessarily be the best thing for Canadians on certain items such as remote controls and cell phones, as new technology takes over.

Meanwhile, Wagstaffe's story toward the end of the segment has indirectly led me to test the device known as the StormTag, but the question to both Wagstaffe and Johnson more relates to LaPorte's PhoneSoap project. While LaPorte is trying to convince people in the United States to join the revolution of cleaning the phone that has a huge amount of germs, I personally find that Canadians may be left out, even long after Wagstaffe's story on weather balloons.

But whether PhoneSoap's latest Kickstarter project called the PhoneSoap XL will modify Johnson's advice on the Marketplace's follow-up episode on hotels (at the end of that episode) is unclear. Another question that remains unclear is Wagstaffe's knowledge on germs and the PhoneSoap project that LaPorte is leading the way. Now that Wagstaffe has apparently challenged me for the so-called StormTag, I do challenge her and Johnson to see what the PhoneSoap can do. But for those who don't know about the PhoneSoap to my knowledge, the company is based in Utah, but does have a deep connection to Southern Santa Clara County in California, specifically in Morgan Hill (approximately 20 miles south of downtown San Jose on U.S. 101).

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Original Work: Kyle Chak
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