Designed to withstand hospital-grade disinfectants, extreme wipe-downs and an array of killer diseases, these Medigenic infection-control keyboards are equipped with a few tricks for simple sanitary lockdowns.
If you’ve ever looked under or between the keys of your keyboard, you’d probably find a collection of sunflower seed shells, hair, toenail clippings and boogers—just think of all the bacteria those can trap. Now just imagine all the semen, blood, urine, excrement, vomit, mucus and chemicals a hospital keyboard could be hiding. The $US140 Medigenc comes with a completely sealed body and tough exterior that won’t trap bacteria and will allow you to clean it with super strong disinfectants. There’s also a single button you can push that will “lockdown” all the keys so you can rub the keyboard down without sending out any e-mails that say, “SKDFJ#$%^&(@&#;@SDFJOIQOIERY(!I)_*&#;YUHEJFKDNFKJAOID OPO{PKLSF!!!!” Moreover, for those who are nostalgic for old hospital technology, the Medigenic outfitted with a silk-screened 3D keyboard design that is sure to give you that vintage, older-than-life feel. [Medigenic via OhGizmo via BBG]
Jason Murphy
April 15, 2009 at 9:20 PM
The cleaning sensors are pretty clever. I’ve tried to fool them by using a dry cloth or just pushing all the keys with my hand in a wiping motion. But the only way to got the ‘clean me’ light to stop flashing is to use an alcohol-based cleaning product and give the keyboard a really good going over.
The light/buzzer can be set to go off at custom intervals (from 1 hour to 48 hours) to suit environmental needs, or you can just leave it at the default/recommended 3 hours and avoid installing the client software (good for organisations with locked-down PCs). It’s also back-lit and there’s a matching mouse!
This is a great product for workplaces where sterility/cleanliness, or the perception thereof, is important. Hospitals and Doctor’s surgeries would obviously benefit, but I’d also like to see them used in the hospitality industry; take a look at the cleanliness of the POS keyboard next time you’re in a Subway and you’ll know what I mean.
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April 16, 2009 at 5:41 AM
I don’t know what you do in your hospital, but we don’t see a lot of semen in mine….
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