[LXicon]

pick up a Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard and a compatible mouse (like the M305) and they can both use the same USB receiver. plus, it's a solar powered wireless keyboard!

* you'll need to bind the mouse and keyboard to the same receiver on a windows machine before you connect it to your linux box until linux unifying support is available.

[waitwhat]

There are obviously trivial workarounds to the problem. I was simply making the point that it didn't have to be a problem in the first place.