My keyboard and touch pad just randomly stopped working, how do I fix it?

My keyboard and touch pad randomly stopped working and now I can't do anything, does anyone know how to fix this?

Try SMC and PRAM resets:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
Ciao.

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