Most Expensive Computer Keyboard

Written by: tom Filed Under: Electronics, World on October 21st, 2006

Most people use whatever keyboard comes with their desktop PC and only buy a keyboard as a replacement when the inevitable cup of hot coffee is spilled onto the keys. Some prefer split keyboards, or soft-touch keyboards. Other that type prefer the old-school clanks of their first keyboards. Many of the more expensive keyboards are now wireless because many people when given the choice will lean back and type with a keyboard in their lap.

CNET’s blog recently featured an affiliate of Fujitsu, PFU Ltd of Ishikawa, Japan which is producing the most expensive PC keyboard ever to be used for typing. The price for this expensive computer keyboard is a grand sum of 500,000 yen or about US $4,240.

most expensive computer keyboard

Named the Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional HP Japan, the keys are handcoated with a Urushi lacquer. This made to order keyboard is coated many times and then powdered with gold dust.

painting Urushi lacquer

Buy one of the most expensive computer keyboards yourself by visiting their website, if you can read Japanese.


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(9) Comments

9 comments...What do you think?

  1. Posted by micheal 30th November, 2006 at 10:48 am

    red and white not the kind of colors that would look good just sitting on your desk

  2. Posted by J 26th February, 2007 at 7:21 pm

    Red and White don’t mixed together are a keyboard. I think maybe black and white

  3. Posted by eleanor 29th August, 2007 at 4:57 am

    it looks like any ordinary keyboard; only funnier in style! hahaha

  4. Posted by pro 22nd January, 2008 at 4:26 pm

    who the hell pays over 4000 dollars for that shit. I have a very stylish Logitech G11 gaming keyboard that has blue back lighting for all the keys and i got it for 60 dollars.

  5. Posted by kaela 1st December, 2008 at 8:29 am

    ugliest keyboard i’ve ever seen.

  6. Posted by hubblegum 4th January, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    Seems to me if any of the keys got scratched or worn you might get poison ivy rash on your hands and anywhere your hands touched. Urushi lacquer contains urushiol, the rash-causing compound in poison ivy/oak/sumac, all close relatives of the Japanese lacquer tree.
    Unless it was meant only for hunting and pecking…

  7. Posted by parvez 31st May, 2009 at 8:11 am

    what a joke if i will if somebody offers this to me in free then to i will not accept it

  8. Posted by BM 12th June, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    I think it is so expensive because virgin hair is so hard to find, maybe?

  9. Posted by Marc 7th December, 2009 at 10:04 am

    I think the colors look really cool together and anyone who says it looks dumb is really stupid.

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