Gizmodo: silent

'Really Cool' Keyboard Is Silent, Waterproof For Underwater Spy-Typing Adventures

Jason Chen — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:40:00 EDT

This "Really Cool" keyboard mixes two things we really love about keyboards: the ability to type quietly and the ability to withstand a glass of milk being poured on it. It's completely sealed in a silicone outer shell with "no" moving parts, which explains its waterproof-ness. If our experience with silicone keyboards is worth anything, these things are pretty hard to type on, making this a silent, waterproof and awkward keyboard. [Man Machine via DVICE]

Thanko's Silent Keyboard Only Makes 6db

Jason Chen — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:00:26 EDT

We seriously don't know how you IBM keyboard lovers get any work done when it sounds like Optimus Prime pleasuring himself with a jackhammer. Us? We like things quiet. Quiet like this Thanko Silent Keyboard. It only makes 6db, compared with the 30db a "regular" keyboard makes. Although we'll still stick to Microsoft's Wireless Entertainment Desktop series for our quiet keyboarding needs, this $33.17 keyboard is good for those who don't take typing quite that seriously.

We also hope it works better than the Thanko silent mouse we had to execute. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Raremonoshop via Gearfuse via Pop Gadget]

Buffalo's Silent Mouse Keeps Your Wife From Leaving

Jason Chen — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:55:48 EST

Back when we were living in a one bedroom/living room/kitchen dump, our wives would always complain about the keyboard and mouse noise keeping them up at night. Or waking them up in the morning. Or bothering them while they were listening to music. Come to think of it, they probably just wanted a divorce.

Nevertheless, Buffalo's silent mouse, which probably uses a similar technology to Thanko's, would have come in handy back then, if just to give them one less thing they could harp on. – Jason Chen

BOMU-SL, the silent mouse for demanding users [Akihabara News via uber gizmo]

Completely Silent Non-Electric Humidifier

Jason Chen — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:00:01 EDT

If the gurgle, gurgle, drip, drip sound of your humidifier keeps you up at night, try your hand at this Non-Electric Humidifier. Completely silent thanks to the lack of moving parts, the humidifier uses a wick to draw water and allows hot air to pass through from your forced-air vents, evaporating the water and humidifying your air.

You'll need to replace the wick every month, but the main unit is only $30. Great for if you're always waking up in the middle of the night because your throat is dry (me), and traditional humidifiers keep you awake (not me). – Jason Chen

Product Page [Gaiem via Crib Candy via Oh Gizmo]

Silent Light Phone Ringer

Jason Chen — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:45:28 EDT

This isn't a ringer, per se. It attaches to your landline phone to allow you to turn off your phone ringer and still be alerted, via blinking light, that someone's trying to get ahold of you. Perfect for parents of little babies, parents of teenagers who call late, and parents who just want to take a little nap, so could you please keep it down for Christ's sake Tommy?

The light has four LEDs and comes with a phone cable. Available now for $19.95. – Jason Chen

Silent Light Phone Sensor [OneStepAhead via Textually]

Thanko Noiseless Keyboard

Charlie White — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:34:26 EDT

Thanko first offered its silent mouse, and now its tiptoeing companion, the Thanko Noiseless Keyboard has made its debut. Well, it's not exactly noiseless, but the company says it's so quiet that it only makes 30.2dB worth of racket, even when you're banging away at it with reckless abandon.

We realize this is a personal decision, and some really do like a clickety-clackety noisy keyboard that really lets you know when you've struck a key. But the rest of us don't want a keyboard whose clicks and clacks are so loud that you can still hear them reverberating through your head after you've gone to bed. Thanks, Thanko. – Charlie White

Thanko's silent keyboard [Akihabara News]

DIY: Ultra-Silent PC

Travis Hudson — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:59:26 EST

While some people enjoy the pleasing, white-noise effect of noisy PCs, a lot of you don't. Who'da thunk it that there is an entire website dedicated to shutting your computer up. Build Silent PC is a website that offers a variety of options for getting your PC to be a little less noisy. Most of these quieting methods require a little hands-on dirty work, so inexperienced need not apply.

Build a Silent PC