Oct 30 2009$899 For The World's Cleanest Keyboard
Germaphobe? Worried about the bovine flu (it's coming, you watch)? Tired of operating a keyboard when you're 99.98% sure The Superficial Writer was touching with himself while using it? Enter the $899 Vioguard self-sanitizing keyboard.
The Vioguard keyboard is aimed at medical market uses and consumers in Canada. It uses two 25-watt UV lights to kill 99.99% of viruses and bacteria in about 90 seconds. Ultraviolet light is known to be affective against harmful microorganisms such as H1N1 flu, MRSA and molds.
Alternatively, only operate the keyboard while wearing surgical gloves, which is what I do. You should see everybody in the office tense up when I'm slapping them on! I think it's the winking that really gets to them.
The Cleanest Keyboard From Vioguard [techfresh]
Thanks to naas, who doesn't need a keyboard because he rocks dual mice.
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Reader Comments
1. Aisha Rosario - October 30, 2009 12:31 PM
wow
2. Dude - October 30, 2009 12:31 PM
It's very "affective" against those bad things? I'm not so sure if I want my keyboard getting it on with molds...
3. JADE - October 30, 2009 12:35 PM
I know some people at work that could use one of those. Some people are just plain nasty.
4. Closet Nerd - October 30, 2009 12:37 PM
As long as the keys are non-stick....
5. Genshi - October 30, 2009 12:39 PM
Damnit! I could've been a firster if my connection speed was faster:( I hear that's the only way to get into gay clubs nowadays
6. Genshi - October 30, 2009 12:41 PM
Oh well. Atleast I'm the first with a link in my name. Where does it go?
7. Ollie Williams - October 30, 2009 12:54 PM
Go naas!
8. patrickyayo - October 30, 2009 12:55 PM
just buy a thing of germ x
9. Freddy Kruger - October 30, 2009 1:00 PM
"affective"? They can't even spell right, how well is this thing made?
10. TheOneOnTheLeft - October 30, 2009 1:03 PM
i just incinerate my keyboads after every use. kills 100% of everything. take that 'medical market'.
11. Closet Nerd - October 30, 2009 1:20 PM
naas, do you really rock dual mice? i rock a trackball mouse, and a standard mouse at the same time while drafting in AutoCAD
12. mike - October 30, 2009 1:33 PM
freakin canadians needing their steralized keyboards...
13. emptyaddy - October 30, 2009 1:36 PM
Believe me when I say we could use this, but assuming the necessity of such a precaution would be only merited in an environment such as BSL3 or higher, other protocols basically void any reason for the expense. Industrially and governmentally speaking of course. From the aspect of undergraduate level research or a lab that employs extremely incompetent personnel I could see the situation when one could splurge.
A "fail" stamp for non-practical application within the environment for which it appears to be tailored. If cheap I could see it at public terminals. Otherwise, a gold star for ingenuity.
14. Bob Slidell - October 30, 2009 1:52 PM
I wonder if this works for giz stains...
15. Dirty-Shizno - October 30, 2009 2:15 PM
@14 that would be jizz not giz...WTF is giz anyaway?
16. Alex - October 30, 2009 2:19 PM
Bovine flu? You mean mad cow disease? That's so 1999.
17. Caos - October 30, 2009 3:06 PM
Did you say a keyboard that knows when it's been touched??!!! How ground breaking...tell me more Mr Science...
18. Skim - October 30, 2009 3:54 PM
" ... aimed at medical market uses and consumers in Canada"
Why are Canadians being specifically targeted with this product? I mean, I can understand medical uses, but ...
Whatever. I'm never going there.
19. Bob Slidell - October 30, 2009 3:55 PM
@15 That stuff on your chin.
20. JJtoob - October 30, 2009 4:08 PM
@10: Good for you, it's that .01% that will get us in the future. Survival of the fittest is a bitch.
and @16: Yeah bovine flue, they seem to go through different animal strands: avian, swine... eventually bovine. The original was dino flu, which infected GW and now has dino fever... Ka-ching!
21. College student - October 30, 2009 4:19 PM
Awesome stuff right here.
22. Closet Nerd - October 30, 2009 4:52 PM
@15 I think giz is just robot jizz
23. Bob Slidell - October 30, 2009 5:08 PM
Yes, I have a mechanical dick... sorry for the confusion there.
24. lolbear - October 30, 2009 6:25 PM
well then again
it's only "99.9" percent of germs killed
that last .01% germs have know become immune to the cleaner
really it's a waste, unless your working with toxic things, because most of the germs on your keyboard are perfectly harmless :3
25. uhh - October 30, 2009 6:47 PM
@24
really?
re-read your post and try again.
26. bR1an - October 31, 2009 1:37 PM
@13
They don't let you out much do they?