Keyboard So Clean You Can Eat Off It

I love my classic raised-key keyboard that I once purchased at a garage sale. Tall keys that make a soothing clackety-clack sound. But it’s also beyond disgusting. That particular keyboard has been used by many pairs of hands all eating, pooping and god-knows-what over the years. Maybe it’s about time I looking into something a bit… cleaner.

Thanks to touchscreen technology, Canadian company Cleankeys Inc has created the completely flat keyboard. With just a wipe of a sanitized cloth–BAZINGA!–gone are the diseases that your dirty little fingers could be spreading (at least on your keyboard).

The Cleankeys keyboard is made of touch-capacitive glass or plastic responding only to your fingers. It is both shatterproof and waterproof–meaning you can even give it a good scrub under the tap.

But the fact that it’s a touchscreen might be a problem for those of us who prefer the tactile response of a traditional keyboard. Those folks that rail against the touchscreen phone will not be fans of a whole touchscreen keyboard.

Cleankeys even admits that the is not as efficient a typing experience as your big ol’ keys of yesteryear. While it may only take you about 10 minutes, your typing is likely to be 30 per cent slower than on a keyed keyboard. But, hey, if you’re OCD enough to need an uber-clean keyboard, it’s probably worth it.

Now, are you OCD enough to pay $450 for the glass version? Now that I’ve spent the last half hour thinking about how disgusting my own keyboard is, I think I am.

[Cleankeys via OhGizmo]