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Step 6What Next?

What Next?
Continue watering, adding seed etc and after about a week, remove the polythene. You should now have a green keyboard

What Next?
You could surround the keyboard with gravel, place a small dish in the gravel and add Sea Monkeys to give that calming Japanese Garden with Koi Carp feel

For an English Cottage Garden feel, thimbles and fishing line can be used to make hanging baskets. Superglue them to the front of his/her monitor

Toy people and bears will recreate the fear of a wild forest on the keyboard. Use epoxy to glue them to the keys before adding the paper.

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Apr 2, 2008. 2:33 PMtigerboy says:
funny!!!!LOL!!!!
Jan 27, 2009. 3:46 PMqwixel says:
The keyboard can be destroyed doing this. Willful destruction of company property could get you seriously fired at just about any job.

If you want to try this I suggest you supply your own used keyboard (maybe tech has a pile of dead keyboards...) *AND* make sure your superiour knows and has a sense of humor...

Remember to take it to an electronics recycler later, because this thing will be toast when you are done: water and electronics - not a great mix esp. not the thin metal layers on the plastic membranes that make most keyboards work.

Oh, and don't plug the keyboard in if you do this. Most USB keyboards run on 5v with a surprising amount of amerage available. Might not be enough to hurt you, but water inthe wrong spot could cause a short that could destroy the computer.
Sep 27, 2010. 10:56 PMzack247 says:
i had a keyboard i picked up from the curb that sat in the rain for days. i let it dry out, and it worked like a charm
May 13, 2010. 3:13 PMcomputer_guy says:
 the keyboard is unplugged. easily cleaned with the toilet paper layer. after the keyboard is dry, just use again normally.

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