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I thought CBS already owned the trademark on "Mighty Mouse" for everything but computer mice.

This company here has been doing these repairs for a while. They have a good selection of parts i was able to purchase a while back. I got a CCT backlight and a voltage converter/regulator for under $60 a couple years ago. I also sent them some laptops to repair with bad backlights that i bought from an auction. They did the repairs for less then $100 per machine.

Another source i found was here. I could find old used stuff cheap.

I don't know if this helps you find some cheap parts or not. There are bounds of companies that will help fix these things for reasonable prices. I called the manufacturer when trying to get a sony laptop fixed and they wanted to replace the entire lcd for $500 or so. I had the first company fix the screen for $100 plus shipping. good luck with it.

There is a flexible keyboard in mini and full sizes
This is the mini for a PDA

http://www.man-machine.com/FX100%20Palm.htm

A junk pentium 100 laptop or thinkpad would do.

Not to be insensitive or facitious, but why not get an old computer? A machine thats a couple years old already has spent plenty of time baking off residual solvent vapors and other chemicals. You might want to crack it open and remove all the dust on the inside first, though ;-).
If you insist on modern hardware, have a look at some of the ruggedized equipmnent that is designed for industrial use (note this shit's not cheap):
environmentally sealed NEMA 4/4x stainless steel/ABS plastic keyboards
waterproof/contamination proof silicon keyboard with integrated pointing device, that can be chemically sterilized

I did find a link to an old ball shaped typewriter(from a google link). While there doesn't seem to be a currently available product, this idea and one of those flexible rubber keyboards might be a good starting point.

In response to your durable mice question, if you check out the link timothy provided to Man & Machine, you'll see they do offer a waterproof mouse...no idea how well it works, but just answering your question...for a more direct link to the mice, try this.

Check out the links listed above. The Man and Machine site describes a water resistant lcd panel and mouse.

BTW, this is 49.53 cm long with a 2.1336 m cable. There are real pictures of the thing at http://www.man-machine.com/keybrd1.htm.