I don’t replace my keyboards because they’ve stopped working. I relpace them because they’re so disgustingly filthy they’re beyond all hope.

I have a bad habit of snacking at my desk, working through lunch with a sandwich at my side, spilling coffee droplets, cookie crumbs, etc. Once, when I was still working in an office, I even spilled an entire mug full of tea with honey onto my keyboard. All of the keys got stuck.

Then, I was lucky enough to be contacted by the PR contact for Kensington, who offered to let me try out their new, washable keyboard. This struck me as the best idea ever.

If you’d like to read my full review, you should head on over to Nerve’s Tools of Attraction blog.

If you don’t give a damn about the full review, I’ll just let you know that the keyboard has received a thorough cleaning and continues to do its job. You can pick up one of your own for $39.99 at the Kensington website. It’s well worth the investment in my opinion (that is, if you share all of my bad eating-at-the-desk habits).

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At the moment, the items I have that plug in with USB cable are my scanner, my digital camera, my webcam, my iPod and, of course, my flash drive. As I have a mere two USB ports on my computer, located on the back of it, swapping these items in and out can be a royal pain in the ass.

I think that an additional USB port is a worthy investment (it at least saves me from going off the deep end every time I need to upload photos from my camera). Here’s one bright and cheery option:

These ports from USB Brando are only $13 apiece.

I’ve written about BlueLounge products several times before over at the Modern Materialist: here, here, and here. That’s because their products belie an invested interest in making our lives easier, mostly by attacking clutter at its root.

I already own the Cableyoyo ($4.95).

I use it for my headphones, but it can really be used to get any one, pesky wire out of the way.

Since ordering my Cableyoyo, however, BlueLounge has also come out with the SpaceStation ($79.95) and the Sanctuary ($129.95).

The SpaceStation is an extended desk organizer for your laptop. There is a rubber pad on top top, on which to rest your keyboard, and the station is angled just so, to allow for ergonomic keyboard handling and a flow of air underneath your machine.

In addition, the underside has a 4-port USB hub and internal coiling pins for all of your wires. Back on top, there is a special slot for business cards and a page holder for keeping working papers upright.

The Sanctuary, meanwhile, is a universal charger compatible with over 1,500 devices that also manages to keep all your wires out of the way.

Check out their site for more info, and sign up for their newsletter. Lord knows what they’ll come out with next.