Silence that keyboard! That clickety-clacking all day long gets annoying, so that’s why these absolutely silent keyboards exist. Not only is the full-sized ReallyCool Keyboard quiet, it’s waterproof, so you can scrub it with soap and water if you’re in an environment where things get too funky to touch. Even more appealing is its backlighting, for, say, typing next to a hospital bed in the middle of the night.
Marketed to medical facilities, these silent keyboards are seeing use in courtrooms, too, where the distracting rat-a-tat-tat of typing tests the temper of judge and jury. According to its maker, the ReallyCool keyboard has tactile keys, giving you a normal-feeling typing experience even though it's not particularly ergonomic. You’ll have to pay extra for all that ReallyCoolness, though — it's $199, in your choice of black or cool gray.
Via Man & Machine
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By CJW at 6:26 PM ON 06/03/08
Grosser than an Apple keyboard. I appreciate the sealed nature of the board and the ability to completely disinfect it, but not for $200. Maybe $20. Specialty markets always get reamed on price, but I can't imagine these things even outselling the fabled Optimus keyboard.
By Novermod at 6:54 PM ON 06/03/08
The company Acteck sells them since many years ago.
www.acteck.com
By Smurf at 7:50 PM ON 06/03/08
I've had one of these for a year and a half at work its great because I can throw it on my hood at then roll it up and put it the laptop bag. All for $20
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=300135&CatId=533
By dtiger at 12:26 AM ON 06/04/08
this is nothing new. I've had one for a few years now and saw one at a paintball field about a year before i got mine. They are call the Nearly Indistructable Keyboard. You can find them many places on the internet, and ebay. Usually for around $20 as others have stated.
By Wil at 1:14 AM ON 06/04/08
I have one (that doesn't light up for $30). I got it at frys.
By DoveAlexa at 6:49 PM ON 09/12/08
I bought Smurf's board for 40 bucks about a year ago, and since then both ctrl keys and numbers 1 through 5 and 7 through 0 have died. I am reluctant to buy it again, but if this one featured on this page costs 200? Maybe I'll have to settle.