The Value of Having a Keyboard Protector
There is actually an item known as a keyboard protector, which is basically geared in providing one's computer keyboard the protection it deserves as an input device for computer systems. Here is a scenario illustrating just how much the presence of a keyboard protector could help veer problems away:
Jeff works with his laptop and is busy working on the annual financial reports of his office. It is already 3 in the morning, and the only thing that has been keeping Jeff awake for the passing hours would be the cups of coffee he's been having since 10 pm. Suddenly, while Jeff grabs for the folder across the table, he accidentally brushes the cup of coffee, spilling its contents over his laptop computer. The laptop shorts its circuits, leading Jeff in a blank slate, as all the accounting worksheets for his office were all in that selfsame laptop. To say that Jeff is in deep trouble would be quite an understatement.
Had Jeff known about the value of having a keyboard protector, his laptop would've had a fighting chance against the coffee Jeff accidentally spilled onto it.
Basically a keyboard protector appears to be a film like item shaped like that of a computer keyboard, made from rubber or plastic. What they do is simply provide the computer keyboard of one's desktop or laptop computer system with a plastic layer, which could prevent liquids, should there be any accidental spilling, from seeping into the electronic components of the keyboard, or in the case of laptops, the laptops internal circuitry. Aside from protecting a keyboard from liquids, keyboard protectors also protect keyboard from contacting dust particles, as the dust would only settle on the keyboard protector, and not on the insides of one's keyboard.
Most keyboard protectors are washable, meaning that once they get too dirty, users have the option of washing them, thereby using them again this time clean as the day they were purchased, or throw them away, replacing them with new keyboard protectors. Other benefits which come with most keyboard protectors would be that of more silent typing, as well as soft touch typing.
As keyboards differ from one brand to another, there are actually different types of keyboard protectors, each ideally fitting the many types, layouts and sizes of the different keyboards all over the world.
All in all, if you don't have a keyboard protector for your computer, you'd better get one, before anything like what happened to Jeff happens to you.
