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like it or not every time you touch your phone you're getting grime and grease and maybe even bacteria all over it this is a problem than any owner of a smartphone or a tablet notes very well I'm Jessica belcourt from cnet here at CES 2014 where we just learned about antimicrobial corning gorilla glass this is a brand-new product it's nothing you can really see but what they've done is they've taken that chemically strengthened blast they've added silver ions and the wound care industry in hospitals silver is often used to handle microbes other bacteria that get in and cause a lot of problems so using this in a phone or a tablet or on other things that you touch all the time with glass is really a pretty good idea now to demonstrate how it works we're going to take an ordinary smartphone with ordinary glass on it maybe even corning gorilla glass and we're going to wipe it down with some water and use a machine that measures all sorts of contaminants in it it could be bacteria that it could also just be food and other kinds of grease next we'll do the same test with the antimicrobial corning gorilla glass on a device that is often put in communal areas in this instance it is a scheduler now this device hasn't been touched very much only by us so you're not going to get the real feel of what it would be like day to day now we've tested both devices with the antimicrobial glass and with the regular corning gorilla glass and the results were very similar that's probably just because my fingers touched both of us but you can't necessarily top from the test is how much of the gunk is just priests from my fingers and how much contains bacteria that can get you and other people's 6 i'm just a good ball court christina has been your first look at antimicrobial corning gorilla glass you can check out this and other news from see sses got CNN com