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Dishwasher Safe Keyboard
Slatterz writes "Reports about the number of germs contained on common office keyboards are a perennial favorite — according to some tests, the innocuous looking keyboard sitting in front of you might contain 400 times more germs than a toilet seat. It's a fact not lost on big name manufacturers, with Lenovo announcing in 2008 a desktop PC called the IdeaCentre K210, which had a special anti-microbial keyboard. All well and good, but why worry when you can just pop the entire keyboard in the dishwasher? The Silver Seal fully submersible keyboard is a 100% waterproof keyboard. The whole board can go into the dishwasher, with seals to protect the gold USB connector, and 'laser etched' keys guaranteed not to fade during the punishing cleaning cycle."
The IBM Model M keyboard is also dishwasher safe (or so I've been told).
I have run many keyboards through the dishwasher. The only ones I have ever had not work after were a couple of $10 specials. If you wash your keyboard, let it dry for a few days after you wash it.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
Yeah, I've heard about the rust problems caused when gold gets wet...
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Sure it's safe with water, but what about beer?
The picture reminds me of how I once had a whole can of beer spilled on my mac keyboard...
Bottom side of it looked like a water globe with bubbles instead of fish.
... is a dishwater safe desktop, monitor and programmer so that corporations can send their entire programming teams through a soak-and-rinse cycle without having to lose precious man-hours.
What about the Mac keyboard in the photo? Is it dishwasher safe as well?
I'm using one just like it as I type this.
-- Boycott Shell
Why not just buy a new keyboard when it gets crummy? They're cheap!