Typewriter

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Artist Turned Typewriter Into This Sculpture Of Your Grandpa

12:00AM May 8, 2011 | Kwame Opam

What with all the recent buzz about the death of the typewriter — that turned out to be super false — artist Jeremy Mayer went ahead and created this piece, Bust V (Grandfather), to comment on the hullabaloo. More »


Gadgets

Every Single One Of Cormac McCarthy’s Works Was Typed On This

7:40PM December 2, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Cormac McCarthy has spent many years bent over this typewriter banging out books and screenplays, including All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. Now, after many decades, he’s giving up his trusty old gadget. More »


Musical Typewriter Turns Your Annoying Poetry Into Annoying Music

10:40AM July 15, 2009 | Adam Frucci

This typewriter is modified to play a different note with every key pressed. It’s a neat idea, but if you’re actually typing words the music it produces is similar to the music produced by a cat walking on a piano. More »


Gadgets

Cult Of The Olympia Report DeLuxe Electric Typewriter

1:00AM July 15, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

Steven Levy, Wired senior writer and the man who found Einstein’s missing brain, joins us to recollect his gadget-laden life back in 1979. He starts, fittingly, with the last typewriter he ever owned. More »