Questionable inventions

Do you ever see a new product and wonder why on earth it was needed?

That's what I think about the new soap dispenser that automatically shoots out some antibacterial soap when you slip your hand under the nozzle. The reasoning for the new product is because on the regular hand pumps in liquid soap dispensers you have to press down on the pump to get the soap. Who knows what you may have been doing that required you to need to wash your hands. Cleaned the cat's litter box? Cut up fresh chicken? Changed the baby's diaper?

Obviously germs are going to land on top of that pump when you press it to get soap to wash your hands.

So, OK, if you have an automatic dispenser then your hands won't ever have to touch the bottle.

But, wait a minute. Let's walk through this process. Your hands are dirty and laden with germs. You walk up to the liquid soap dispenser and use one of your dirty hands to push down on the pump to get some soap so you can wash your dirty hands.

You lather up the soap with very warm water and rinse thoroughly. So.... are you going to touch the top of the soap dispenser again with your clean hands? If you answer that with a yes, please tell me WHY.

When I've washed my hands, I don't go back and touch the soapy dispensers or containers.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but it does seem this was an invention that might not have been needed.

On the other hand, maybe the novelty of it will encourage youngsters to use more soap and water and wash their hands more often. That would indeed be a good thing.