{"id":301421,"date":"2025-11-23T09:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301421\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T09:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:28:13","slug":"ugly-dirty-microsoft-surface-keyboards-why-high-tech-computers-and-low-tech-fabrics-dont-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301421\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugly, dirty Microsoft Surface keyboards: Why high-tech computers and low-tech fabrics don\u2019t mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bodytext\">During the global COVID-19 pandemic, scientists discovered the coronavirus could survive on a variety of surfaces and for <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC7927581\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">five or more days on clothing in one review<\/a>. Even those who wash their hands religiously after using the bathroom (which a significant number of people do not do), eating, talking, sneezing, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajicjournal.org\/article\/S0196-6553(11)00124-6\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">even pigeons have been found to deposit microbes onto keyboards<\/a>. Given the similarity of Alcantara microfiber to textiles, it is not unreasonable to think that a great number of viruses and bacteria can be found on Alcantara-covered Surface keyboards, which cannot be properly washed or disinfected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the global COVID-19 pandemic, scientists discovered the coronavirus could survive on a variety of surfaces and for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19263,135376,214,49,48,215,135375,135377,40863,207,63,213,206,135379,135378,135371,135370,135372,13291,216,135374,212,208,209,87135,37899,135373,20537,61,211,210,135369],"class_list":["post-301421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-alcantara","tag-alec","tag-benchmarks","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-graphics-card","tag-groene","tag-ishihara","tag-keyboard","tag-laptop","tag-microsoft","tag-netbook","tag-notebook","tag-panay","tag-panos","tag-polyester","tag-polyester-blend","tag-polyurethane","tag-pro","tag-processor","tag-ralf","tag-reports","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-signature","tag-suede","tag-suede-like","tag-surface","tag-technology","tag-test","tag-tests","tag-type-cover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}