LG wants you to ditch the citronella candles. Its newest smartphone, unveiled yesterday in India, emits mosquito-repelling ultrasonic sound waves.
The LG K7i's "Mosquito Away" technology "emits ultrasonic waves from a mesh grid on the back of the phone," CNN Money reports, that repel pests but are harmless to humans. So far, the phone is exclusively available in India, which the National Institutes of Health says faces an estimated 2 million malaria cases every year.
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