24 Reasons You Need a Washable Keyboard and Mouse

A washable keyboard and mouse combo makes your workspace easy to clean and keep hygienic.

1. You drink coffee (or tea or soft drink or juice or water or wine!) at your desk
2. You eat at your desk
3. Hygiene is essential to your job
4. The dust from the equipment on the factory floor ends up all over your desk
5. Wet paint is close to your keyboard or mouse
6. Children use your keyboard and/or mouse
7. You’re a germophobe
8. You share your desk with other people
9. You get clammy hands
10. You work in a hot, sweaty environment
11. Your workstation is poolside
12. You have a computer in a workshop
13. You work in healthcare
14. You don’t trust your colleagues with their food and drinks near your computer
15. When you turn your keyboard upside-down, it’s like opening a piñata
16. The noise from those air duster cans scare you
17. You’ve had a patient lose their lunch on your desk
18. You regularly get colds at work (keyboards are a breeding ground for germs!)
19. You work in a beachside resort and sand gets into everything
20. You run a cooking blog and type while you cook
21. You work on a boat
22. Your desk doubles as a nail salon
23. You like the feel of rubber
24. You just want to see what happens when you put them in the dishwasher!

The Kensington IP68 keyboard and mouse can handle anything you throw at them. Both are sealed inside a rubbery cover that is germicidal and inhibits bacterial growth. Their USB connectors have little watertight caps so you can wash them or run them through the dishwasher. The name IP68 comes from the IP rating (ingress protection) which scores it out of 6 for solid protection and 9 for liquid. Its 6/6 and 8/9 scores mean that they are completely dustproof and can handle submersion up to one metre underwater. Don’t just trust the manufacturer – Choice ran their own tests and they came up trumps!