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2. Portable Toilet Door Handles
Here's another germ-fighting travel accessory: the Wakmah portable door handle. This powerful but lightweight suction cup with a plastic knob at the end is designed to minimize contact with unsavory public restrooms. Retailing for $5, it fits in your purse or jacket pocket. Of course, when you and your Wakmah handle get home, you may want to strap on some rubber gloves, scrub that thing thoroughly and douse yourself with disinfectant.

3. Sterilizing Washing Machine
The war on dirty underwear may also be fought on a microscopic level. Samsung announced in July that it is introducing the "Silver Wash" line of sterilizing washing machines, which will douse laundry with silver ions that are said to leave a germ-resistant coating that lasts as long as a month.

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Samsung is testing the new washer in Asia but has a vast range of "Silver Wash" consumer appliances, including a line of germ-resistant cell phones, which is nothing to sneeze at.

4. Traveling Toothbrush Sanitizer
When you go on vacation, your toothbrush might bring home more souvenirs than you do: millions of microscopic critters making a home in your bristles!

For just that reason, toothbrush sanitizers became very popular in the last year. Now, VIOlight is introducing the first traveling sanitizer – a $30, battery-operated, pencil box-sized device that utilizes the same ultraviolet technology. Pack it away, and you can visit Uncle Louie without coming home with whatever it is that's stinking up his medicine cabinet.

5. Automated Towel Dispensers
You've seen them in restaurants next to the "Employees Must Wash Hands" sign. Now, you can have your very own automated paper towel dispenser, so that your loved ones will never again get their dirty paws over your kitchen and make you sick.

With the new "No Touch" dispenser – the first automated dispenser designed for home use – you just wave your hands under the electric eye and a paper towel (cut to your specifications) pops out of the stainless steel cylinder, which mounts on the wall or under a cabinet. At nearly $300, it's a little pricey. But if you can't prepare restaurant-quality sushi, at least your kitchen can provide an industrial, fingerprint-free cleanup.

Buck Wolf is entertainment producer at ABCNEWS.com. "The Wolf Files" is published Tuesdays.