While tablets and smartphones have been revolutionizing many aspects of medicine, it’s been awfully hard to safely bring electronics into operating rooms for sterile use. Now a new product called eShield has been FDA approved that will let you use small electronics inside sterile environments.

Produced by Whitney Medical Solutions, the eShield covers are made out of polyethylene that allows to maintain touch capabilities of modern screens. The company even claims that it works with surgical gloves, essentially allowing clinicians to browse radiological images or play Angry Birds while in the OR. Various sizes of eShield covers are available, including ones that can handle large SLR cameras, allowing high quality documentation by the surgical staff itself without calling in an outside unscrubbed photographer.

source:Whitney Medical Solutions