"But, you know, in terms of washing it, we certainly don't recommend that," Gulino says. Or, blow out dust with a little can of compressed air. Robert Gulino, with Logitech, told me I could wipe the surface gently with a damp cloth. Other major manufacturers have the same party line. "And typically that makes most keyboards lose functionality." "And that gets you relatively close to what it would be like if you put it through the dishwasher," Butterworth says. They have also submerged keyboards in plain water. "We even create a special solution we call artificial sweat."
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"We test with everything from cracker crumbs, salt and pepper, hair," he explains. At Microsoft's hardware division, people check out every possible thing that might harm a keyboard. "What will cause the problems first, is the short-circuiting in the wiring."īutterworth should know. "We do not recommend putting our keyboards, or any keyboards for that matter, in the dishwasher," he says. According to Microsoft's Sean Butterworth, I had just made a big mistake.
It was also absolutely spotless.īut forget how it looks. My keyboard felt almost too hot to touch. Moschella had suggested that the heat might not be a good thing, so I opened the door. Finally, it quieted down and I heard a hiss as the drying cycle started. I felt the same way as my dishwasher glugged and groaned. So, like me, he put his keyboard in and waited. But he had that authoritative voice as some geeks get, where you want to believe." "He said it as if I should have known, and it's something he had done before," Moschella said. That's when one of his friends said, "Hey, why don't you just use the dishwasher?" Moschella found the idea oddly compelling. "It was perfect - until the beer got spilled in it." "I didn't want to throw away my keyboard," laments Moschella. You could see the grime inside, and it was getting unbearably gross and sticky. It was one of those stylish keyboards made of transparent plastic. His keyboard came with his beloved first Mac computer. "Clearly, you know, all it takes is one geek to do something stupid, and you've got a whole bunch of lemmings who are willing to jump off a cliff with you."
"I think now when you type 'keyboard' and 'dishwasher' into Google, my site comes up as one of the first results," Moschella says. I was encouraged to do this by Scott Moschella, a computer guy who runs a blog called Plastic Bugs. I used a little soap, and hit "normal wash." (I didn't want to pots 'n' pans it.) I put the keyboard on the top rack, cord and all, key-side down. I thought, "Well, why not try my KitchenAid?'" And don't we wish it were true? My keyboard is an old Hewlett Packard that's encrusted with a kind of mysterious black grime. Keyboard-in-the-dishwasher advice is all over the Internet. So some people advocate an extreme solution: Throw your keyboard in your dishwasher.Īt first glance, this seems insane. Studies show that computer keyboards have more bacteria than toilet seats. Brad Whitchurch of Seal Shield claims their keyboards work when wet he connected a computer to a keyboard submerged 9 feet underwater to prove it. Nell Boyce tests a Seal Shield computer keyboard under water.
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