CES 2010: Cyber Clean
You know it’s a slow year at CES when a company like Cyber Clean can afford a booth on the main floor. Despite the cheesiness of their presentation, it looked like a really cool product.
Cyber Clean is a gooey compound very much like my childhood toy, Slime, except the texture is thicker and less runny. You press it onto your keyboard, cell phone or other difficult to clean gadget and it picks up debris, food and dust. They were demonstrating it with some sand-like material on an older Apple keyboard.
At the show, they were showing this commercial on huge screens to attract your attention.
I prefer this commercial, however, because it makes Cyber Clean look like a tiny little superhero!
They gave us a free sample of Cyber Clean to try out at home. I keep my electronics very clean, so I couldn’t think of a way to test it, but I remembered the old iMac in Kristen’s room. I decided to try it out on her keyboard. Here is what it looked like before I used Cyber Clean.
I really crammed the goo into the keyboard. I figured it’s an old computer and it doesn’t matter if it gets a little gummed up. All the Cyber Clean came out, however, so I didn’t need to worry about hurting the keyboard. If you look closely, you can see a little dirt that came off the keyboard.
In this picture, it’s easier to see how much hair, dirt and even feathers (Where’d the heck those come from?!) it picked up off the keyboard.
In the end, it didn’t really do all that much. The keyboard was still a little dusty after I thoroughly squished it into all the crevices. I could have done just as well with a paper towel dampened by Windex. Here’s how the keyboard looked after the cleaning.
It DOES smell good, which is something I didn’t expect, and when I opened the package, I felt like a little kid playing with Slime all over again. It really had that nostalgic feel to it. I wasn’t impressed with its cleaning abilities enough to forgo my usual paper towel and Windex techniques, but if you have to clean a lot of keyboards, Cyber Clean might be a way to make your day a little brighter.
You can buy Cyber Clean at Amazon:
I liked the idea of Cyber Clean and it did a pretty good job of cleaning up Kristen’s keyboard, but I think I’ll stick with a paper towel and Windex.
I would like to let you know that I did make this purchase of Cyber Clean and I love it, and the same goes for my children. It cleans ALL the dirt and dust and makes everything clean and sanitized. I don’t know if you used it right, but I am veryy happy with mine. It doesn’t clean grime, and that is what your keyboard looks like it has in the picture. How can you say it does’t do all that much, when clearly you picked up some gross things in the close up picture you posted. -Kelly
Comment by Kelly Swartz — February 1, 2010 @ 4:17 pm
I am on my 2nd Cyber Clean and it is the greatest invention ever. It works really great, gets rid of germs and bacteria and also smells great. I don’t agree with your review at all and I am so surprised. Everyone I bought cyber clean for loves it. And why would you say anything about the company, I happened to know people that met with them at cES and they said it was an amazingly busy, fun booth!!!
Comment by Denise Steinhauser — February 1, 2010 @ 5:22 pm
I think that your review is honest, so thanks for that, people aren’t usually so honest. However my experience, much like the other commenters was a more positive one.
Comment by Lorna — June 6, 2011 @ 9:44 am