Almost all modern plastic keyboards can (and should) be run through the dishwasher now and again to prevent the pustulent oozing of a fresh case of pink eye. But keyboard manufacturers Seal Shield are the first guys on the block to actually tout it as a feature: they are claiming that their new Silver Seal Flex is the world’s first dishwasher safe, fully submersible, anti-microbial, glow-in-the-dark keyboard. And, come to think of it, the deft addition of being glow in the dark probably means that they are right. Smooth marketing move, Seal Shield. The Flex is on sale now for $49.99.
Seal Shield [Official Site via Crunchgear]
I just wipe mine down with a Windex-dampened microfiber cloth.
Nothin’ gets past Windex man.
It should be noted that most keyboards require some degree of disassembly before throwing them in a water rich environment.
so this is jizz-prof? why don’t they just say that?
Smiling at this. Years ago there was a FMC tire balancer I worked on. The factory suggested “service” included washing it’s mainboard in warm Palmolive dish detergent. As the Op-Amps of that era did NOT easily handle leakage currents from condensed crud on the board. A few years later I worked on microwave ovens. The membrane keyboards of one model had a dismally short life. And it was a “range hood style” unit to add “fun” in servicing it. The eventual failure diagnosis was ammonia based spray cleaners “guess the brand name/s” seeping into the conductive trace layers and corroding them. Seems the issue has come back in some set top boxes for DTV too.
I guess the old keyboard optical illusion won’t work as well with this new one.
You know, the really cool illusion you can do with a standard computer keyboard?
Lean forward over the horizontal keyboard.
Place your nose directly above the spacebar.
focus your left eye on the “F” and your right eye on the “K” key.
Now, while keeping your eyes focused on the those keys, grab both ends of the keyboard and slowly lift it up.
DO NOT BLINK. KEEP YOUR EYES FOCUSED ON THOSE TWO KEYS.
Slowly sit up while holding the keyboard approximately one centimeter from your face.
I repeat DO NOT BLINK. KEEP YOUR EYES FOCUSED ON THOSE TWO KEYS.
Now lean slowly backwards until you are looking straight up towards the ceiling and holding the keyboard (now fully inverted) above your face.
Still do not blink.
Now shake keyboard rapidly from side to side.
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At this point scads of shmeggy debris should fall directly into your eyeballs giving you a case of screaming pinkeye and causing everything to look weird and blurry for several days thereafter.
The hi-temp commercial dishwasher seems not to have worked as well as hoped.