Apple apparently filed a patent for a crumb-resistant keyboardMe, in a robot voice: "PREVENT CONTAMINANT INGRESS."
Do you constantly eat over your keyboard, showering all its impossible crevices with remnants from your delicious but horrible to eat crunchy granola bars? Well apparently, Apple could fix this issue if they wanted to. They have the technology.
First spotted by The Verge, a patent for a crumb, liquid, and dust-resistant keyboard filed by Apple back in September of 2016 was just made public yesterday, and hoo boy, is it serious about debris.
According to the 19-page patent, Apple described two possible ways a keyboard could "prevent contaminant ingress" in detail (and yes, those are the company's actual words). The first method is the simplest, and essentially consists of sealing up all the nooks and crannies of the keyboard with gaskets. The second is way more fun, and involves attaching a substrate to each key cap that would "direct contaminants away from the movement mechanism." In other words, every time you pressed a key i...
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Apple apparently filed a patent for a crumb-resistant keyboard
