kong fanwen glass keyboard

Kong Fanwen Glass Keyboard Keeps Your Hands Cleaner

by susan on Aug 31, 2010

Keyboards, especially those that are shared between many users, can become packed with bacteria, not to mention hair, food remnants, and other unappealing waste. The spaces between keys are difficult to clean, and really, who has the time to pop off all of the keys on a keyboard for a proper cleaning?

Enter the glass Keyboard from Cleankeys, Inc. This keyboard doesn’t have your traditional spring loaded keys that sit over a bacteria trap. Instead, the glass keyboard is coated with glass or acrylic to ensure that no waste slips between keys. The keyboard also has a small trackpad in the lower right corner, eliminating the need for a mouse.

Of course, the downside here is that you don’t get the normal feel of a clickable, spring-loaded keyboard. Instead, the device uses touch capacitance technology that senses the touch of a human finger. Touch capacitance technology works if you’re wearing surgical gloves, but not if you touch the keys with an...Read More >>