I was working on my 24-inch iMac today when I noticed my cursor moving a little bit erratically. I didn’t know what was wrong. The computer is almost new, I haven’t installed anything recently, and the mouse itself looked ok, as you can see in the photo above. Then I turned it around to discover the true meaning of the words disgoostingly grossirrific:
Obviously, the reason my table is so clean is because the mouse has been absorbing all the crap around—hair, dust, sweat and more hair—to form these four disgusting patches interconnected with head hair. Check the gallery for high definition pictures showing all the crap in painful detail.
After cleaning it, the mouse worked perfectly again, so my guess is that some of the hairs were getting in the way of the laser and making the cursor jump. This got me wondering: can anyone else’s mouse be as disgusting as this? What about the rest of their tech gear?
And then I remembered the dead fly inside the clear plastic Apple Cinema Display 22. And the dust and hair inside the original translucent iMacs. And the rotten beigeness and crap on the keyboard of my original Compaq LTE laptop or the stains and ash on Addy’s old Fukitsu (sic) mini-notebook.
The question for you today is: is your keyboard full of hair of dubious origins? Bitten nails perhaps? Any unidentifiable insect inside your box? How dirty and gross is your tech gear?
Send us your vomit-inducing photos to tips@gizmodo.com. We will do a gallery with them and post it (with prior warning, so that anyone of a faint disposition can avoid it like the plague.)
Nathaniel
March 6, 2008 at 7:52 AM
lol, i thought “dirty and gross” was just a metaphor for mac mice in general, i really think its about time apple put some r&d into their mice, or you know….just copy the competition.
Report Permalinkzacislost
March 6, 2008 at 6:57 PM
Dude, youre losing your hair
Report Permalinkwiijigga
March 7, 2008 at 1:05 AM
My job, while i am studying at least, is cleaning computers in offices and factories etc, and this isnt even close to the grossest tech gear Ive seen. I routinely clean the pcs (windows) and macs and they both get filthy try some diluted methylated spirits in water with a dash of disinfectant the meths will evaporate before any damage is done. to clean the screen use the diluted meths and isopropylene not too much meths though. then dry with a paper cloth smooth side use a paintbrush with meths sprayed on it to lean inbetween keys then wipe with a cloth for stubborn debris. hope that help u clean ur puter type thingymy bob. later skater
Report PermalinkMartin Olminkhof
October 6, 2009 at 12:17 PM
use a mouse mat!
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