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MyKeyO Keyboard with Organizer

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The Bottom Line

MyKeyO has created the perfect desktop utility: a keyboard with 14 compartments hidden under the keys—great places to hide your stuff.

Pros & Cons

    • Attractive, no-nonsense keyboard.
    • Useful storage space under keyboard.
    • Some compartments are a bit small.

Even though many of us use computers, our desks are still strewn about with other stuff we need—Post-It Notes, pens, pencils, aspirin, business cards (including our own), paper clips, and so on. If we're especially organized, we might have a container for each type of item. The new MyKeyO Keyboard Organizer offers a different method for organizing most of that clutter. Nestled under the standard QWERTY and quite sturdy keyboard is a tray with 14 compartments for holding your indispensable items.

Available in black or white and in PS/2, USB, and wireless versions (there's even a Mac-esque version whose keys light up), the Keyboard Organizer is virtually indistinguishable from standard keyboards. There are compartments for thumbtacks and even CDs and DVDs. To access the storage space, you simply lift up a small tab set in the front of the keyboard. The extra plastic required for the compartments does make the keyboard a tad heavier than standard models, but aside from that, you might never know they exist. What's more, the keyboard sits so firmly on the compartment area that there is no bounce or kickback, no matter how hard you type. Our only minor complaint is that some of the compartments are so narrow that, for someone with large fingers, retrieving, say, a pencil or a thumbtack could be difficult.

Overall, this is an excellent QWERTY keyboard that features one of the few real design coups we've seen in the last few years.

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Final Thoughts

 - MyKeyO Keyboard with Organizer

MyKeyO Keyboard with Organizer

4.5 Outstanding

MyKeyO has created the perfect desktop utility: a keyboard with 14 compartments hidden under the keys—great places to hide your stuff.

About Our Expert

Lance Ulanoff

Lance Ulanoff

Former Editor in Chief

A 25-year industry veteran and award-winning journalist, Lance Ulanoff is the former Editor in Chief of PCMag.com. Lance Ulanoff has covered technology since PCs were the size of suitcases, "on line" meant "waiting" and CPU speeds were measured in single-digit megahertz. He's traveled the globe to report on a vast array of consumer and business technology. While a digital veteran, Lance spent his early years writing for newspapers and magazines. He's been online since 1996 and ran Web sites for three national publications: HomePC, Windows Magazine and PC Magazine. A graduate of Hofstra University, Lance has history with the PCMag brand that spans nearly two decades, having worked there in the early 90s and returning in 2000 to relaunch PCMag.com. In 2007 he was named Editor-in-Chief. During his tenure, Lance guided the brand to a 100% digital existence. In his capacity as Senior Vice President, Content, for Ziff Davis, Inc., Lance oversees content strategy for all of Ziff Davis' Web sites. His long-running column on PCMag.com has earned him a Bronze award from the ASBPE. Winmag.com, HomePC.com and PCMag.com have all been honored under Lance's guidance. Lance served host of PCMag's weekly podcast, PCMag Radio and makes frequent appearances on national, international, and local news programs including Fox News, the Today Show, Good Morning America, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV, NY1, CNN HLN, BBC, New York's Eyewitness News, News Channel 4, and WCBS. He has also offered commentary on National Public Radio and been interviewed by newspapers and radio stations around the country. Lance has been an invited guest speaker at numerous technology conferences including Think Mobile, CEA Line Shows, Digital Life, RoboBusiness, RoboNexus, Business Foresight and Digital Media Wire's Games and Mobile Forum. Lance also posts to Twitter all day long. You can follow his tech industry activities and thoughts at http://twitter.com/LanceUlanoff

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