The Crumb-Resistant Keyboard May Be Apple’s Ultimate Technological Achievement — Pop Culture

I wish I could tell you that my keyboard is as fresh and clean as the day I bought it, but unfortunately I cannot. Like many people, I take my computer from home to office to Starbucks and back multiple times a day, and all those croissants generate a lot of crumbs.

Keyboards are worse than couch cushions for attracting dirt, crumbs, hairs, and other debris. Someday the archaeologists of the future are going to analyze the junk under our keyboards for clues to the dietary habits of 21st century humans, but they might lose a valuable source of data in the next few years, because Apple has filed a patent for a crumb-resistant keyboard.

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