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Keyboards are probably the only thing left that are keeping our immune systems alert and healthy, and keeping the zombie apocalypse at bay.

"With the introduction of self-cleaning keyboards came the development of incredibly resistant strains of bacteria. This in turn led to MRSA5T, a powerful strain of bacteria that infected nearly 95% of the population and caused its human host to exhibiatcharacteristics of aggresiveness and a craving for brains."

Some older keyboards were washable in dishwashers.

Those with lights on them have circuits which can be destroyed by high temperature washing, but there's no reason that keyboards couldn't be made easier to clean. You could, of course, get one of those flexible soft keyboards without cracks for stuff to fall into and clean it with a spray or a damp cloth but they aren't as comfortable and easy to use and probably don't last as long.

I hope self-sterilizing keyboards don't take your fingerprints off. Mind you, my fingerprints seem to take the decals off of ordinary keyboards, so turn about would be fair play. The whole middle part of my keyboard at work is almost totally graphic-free.

I use paint brushes (small, fine-hair paintbrushes, that you can buy for $1 or $2 in a dollar store) to clean my keyboards. You could also use a clean make-up brush--that's what gave me the idea for the brushes--I found a make-up brush and wondered what it could be used to do besides make-up.