Avoid "Metro Hand" with the TranStrap

For those of you who don't know, Metro Hand is the debilitating form of Leprosy one contracts by touching anything on the D.C. subway. Props to Lexatron, by the way, for giving this horrible affliction a name.

Anyway, the TranStrap is a little hook and strap dongle that lets you hold on to overhead subway poles without actually touching them.

It's a nice idea, but it still won't save you from the 340lb mass of wasted human potential who will inevitably sit next to you on an otherwise empty train and who sweats and coughs all over you and half crushes you because their fat ass doesn't fit in single seat.

But, whatever. At least it's something.