Product Placement: A Washable Keyboard

kensington-washable-keyboard

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.

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Product Placement: Plug It In

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.

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Product Placement: Friend of the Cluttered Freelancer

clean workspace.

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.

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