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The Weekly Inventions of
Dr Splatterjacket

A vacuum cleaner is cleaning a room which has quite a bit of dust in it. The vacuum has a hand sanitiser dispenser on it which you can access by pressing one of the many buttons on the handle.

SanitiClean

24th January 2026

Now that I’d finished dinner, having dealt with the small interruption of Zargoid 5 mildly injuring a boy called George, and me heroically patching George up with my AeroPatch, it was finally time to get on with inventing.

I need to sell you more inventions so I can fund my project to drill to the centre of the Earth.

No sooner had I collected my lab coat from the DryWash when the doorbell of my mine rang. I didn’t 100% remember my mine having a doorbell but it seemed to be ringing.

When I located the door and answered it, there was a lady standing there who said her name was Jenny, and that she was from the Proper Horrible Authority for Recreational Tunnelling, or PHART. I was slightly concerned by the fact that they had actually included the word “horrible” in their name… and their acronym was no less alarming.

Dr Splatterjacket and a woman called Jenny are standing in front of a hole, Jenny looks concerned and Dr Splatterjacket looks sheepish.

Jenny explained that she was here to conduct an immediate inspection of all health and safety features in my mine. Apparently, there had been a recent report of a robot falling into a sudden hole somewhere on the premises. I mean… it didn’t ring any bells with me. Zargoid 5 had danced into the hole, rather than fallen (at least at first) so I told her I didn’t think that had happened. Still, she was more than welcome to inspect away.

I did think, as she started her inspection, that it might be good to do a little light cleaning of the mine. You might think that would take an incredible amount of time, but not for me… because I use SanitiClean.

SanitiClean is a combination vacuum cleaner and hand sanitiser dispenser. One of the main problems with cleaning is that it can get you covered in ick. And washing off that ick slows you down. But with SanitiClean, you can clean and be clean at the same time.

Now I will admit that regularly using the hand sanitiser can make your hands so slippy that the vacuum cleaner can get a little bit out of control. Something that unfortunately happened to me soon after beginning operation, resulting in my accidentally running over Jenny’s foot briefly. I think she was so busy inspecting the mine that she hardly noticed.

Do you need to clean and be clean? Of course you do, so get your SanitiClean before your next spring clean makes you filthy.

Note to self: Consider adding a proximity detector to the SanitiClean so it isn’t so enthusiastic about running over feet?