Among the new offerings this year: a range of bed bug protectors, including organic sprays that are said to kill the critters, and luggage covers.
A whole range of bugs, some natural, some engineered, can now be deployed to make a whole range of products.
It was widely seen as a publicity stunt at the time but it could also have provided an opportunity for a private talk out of range of bugging devices.
So companies have concentrated on modifying existing drugs to develop variations that are more potent, or work against a broader range of bugs and are different enough to patent.
That is why America still tests blood for syphilis, even though it is no longer a problem in transfused blood.Testing for pathogens is also likely to improve over the next decade, with the introduction of devices capable of looking for a wide range of bugs at the same time.
When researcher Joshua Drake disclosed a range of bugs affecting Stagefright code in Android, he chose not to publish actual exploit code that could have been used to own as many as 950 million phones running Google 's smartphone operating system with a single silent text message.
Both states monitor the range of the bug by widely deploying pheromone traps that attract the insects.
