Flat keyboards vs common keyboards filled with dust hairs and skin

[andyblackcat]

Rooms homes can be very dusty environments don't kidd you're self thinking you're home is clean, no such thing unless its "White Room".

Look at a typical keyboard and run a small piece of cardboard though the keys and see how much skin hairs dust that has built up in just a few months.

Hands rubbing hands small particles of skin will losen and fall between the keys even fingers against the keys.

Head rubbing head hairs fall off and get between the keys

Cloths rubbing clothing small particles of cloth fibers and hairs and skin on cloths all this will find its way between a typical common keyboard.

I looked around after thinking does such a flat keyboard exits and I found one of many but the prices are way too expensive to type typical common text each second. I think I can wait until they are within common peoples budgets £50.00 or lower. Not spending out £150 or higher for keyboard.

If it gets wet at least it won't multiple like Gremlins. And common keyboards often get wet and sticky with keys getting stiff.

 

[its phillip]

I don't think I would like typing on flat glassy surface all that much. I'll stick to my filco keyboards with cherry mechanical switches even though they get super dusty

 

[herbu]

Don't forget mucus. We used to have a VP who was death on kybds. Of course every time his failed, he called Quality and said we had a problem w/ kybds. We took one to the lab. Analysis found the failure cause was "human mucus". Seems the VP had sinus trouble and sneezed a lot.

We finally made a special kybd just for him. It eventually became the now common Lenovo, (then IBM), sort of waterproof Thinkpad. You can spill a glass of water on the kybd and it will drain out w/o causing damage. Of course stuff that dries sticky, like coke & mucus, can still cause a problem.