Kinesis Keyboard

When I worked at my previous company, Boldfish, I noticed that three engineers there had this awkward looking keyboard. It was called a Kinesis keyboard. It’s a pretty fancy keyboard that is “ergonomical.” Well as one of my coworkers was unfortunately laid off, I was willing to buy his Kinesis keyboard from him, but instead he gave it to me! What a guy! Thanks Jason!

I’m not sure how long my coworker owned it, but when I got it it was pretty dirty — I should have cleaned it then. Lately its just become so grimy and a lot of dead skin, hair, and some lunch leftovers have found their way inbetween the keys. It’s been three years since I’ve gotten this used keyboard and I finally decided to clean it.

First I tried to take it apart, but found out it was totally unecessary. What I had to do was pop out each key. I rigged a paper-clip to have two little claws that would allow me to pull each key out.

After pulling out all the keys, I used some acetone soaked napkins to scrub the grime off many of the keys. Interestingly enough I found the dirtiest keys to be the escape, shift, and enter keys.

As I type, I’m typing on my newly cleaned Kinesis Professional Keyboard and man does it look sweet again!

New rule: wash your hands before typing on the keyboard!

Now I can see why their later models have black keys!