typewriters
Random Stuff
Witness Ron “Typewriter” Mingo In Action
11:20AM Sean Fallon | This video has it all folks. The fastest typist in the world circa the late ’70s, music, pimp suits and the hardships of a man too damn good at what he does. More »
Gadgets
NYC Spending $US1m To Buy New Typewriters, Ensure Grumpy Cops
10:50PM John Herrman | NYPD officers are fed up! Their typewriters are broken down relics from a previous age, making police work more difficult, stressful and demoralising. To remedy this, the city is spending close to a million dollars. On new typewriters. More »
Gadgets
1:00AM 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 »
Cult Of The Olympia Report DeLuxe Electric Typewriter
1:00AM 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 »
Gadgets
1970s-Era Chinese Typewriter Has 2000 Characters to Choose From and a Max Typing Speed of 20 WPM
1:00PM Adrian Covert | Charlie Sorrel over at Gadget Lab found this Chinese typewriter at an art exhibit in Barcelona. It has 2000 characters to choose from, but instead of buttons, you use levers to select those characters. More »
Gadgets
Marilyn Monroe’s Typewriter: Used By One of the Great Minds of the 20th Century
8:20AM Sean Fallon | Yesterday we feasted our eyes on the wristwatch of the great Albert Einstein, today we get a look a personal effect from a celebrity of a very different sort. Behold…Marylin Monroe’s typewriter. One has to wonder whether the essence of these icons lives on in these artifacts, and whether or not using them would somehow magically fuse your life with theirs. If I wore Albert Einstein’s watch, would I come to a more profound understanding about the universe? If I used Marylin’ Monroe’s typewriter, would I get the urge to send tear-stained, hysterical love letters to a dead president? Who knows? [Vanity Fair via Geeksugar via Boing Boing Gadgets] More »
Design
Typewriter Monster Mask, Grrrr! (Arg)
12:30AM Mark Wilson | After artist Jeremy Mayer created this series of typewriter masks, he said, “I’m not going for whimsy. So I will probably never do a set again.” That’s a shame. Wired has a full profile of the artist along with a complete gallery of his intricate human-sized typewriter cyborg sculptures. There are worse ways to spend your workday. [Wired via bbGadgets] More »
Gadgets
Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Typewriter Up for Sale
11:30PM Kit Eaton | See that battered old Hermes Standard 8 typewriter there, in a fetching shade of institutional brown? I’d practically saw my own leg off to own it. Why? Because I’m a huge Douglas Adams fan, and that battered old thing is the very typewriter DNA used to bring The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to the world. A surprisingly analogue gadget, for such a self-avowed technology fan as he. And get this: it’s actually on sale by a British bookseller, as part of a package with a “fine” condition first-edition copy of Hitchhiker’s. The package, complete with autograph on the typewriter lid, will set you back over US$25,000. A vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big sum. But, boy… wouldn’t it be worth it? [Abe Books via BBG]
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10:35AM Seamus Byrne | ASCII has been doing the rounds online since the first acoustic coupler connected to a BBS. But what about going seriously old school? Melbournian Andrew MacRae has been creating ASCII art 60s style with a couple of typewriters: 1965 Olympia SG3 and a 1968 Hermes 3000.
It’s a great blog of his work from over the past year and a half, and you can see the complexity develop over that time. Nods to Star Wars, and even one for the hoons, makes this a must link for mine.
See his art in this blog, and his Live Journal is over here. -Seamus Byrne
[via Boing Boing] More »
ACSII art goes old school
10:35AM Seamus Byrne | ASCII has been doing the rounds online since the first acoustic coupler connected to a BBS. But what about going seriously old school? Melbournian Andrew MacRae has been creating ASCII art 60s style with a couple of typewriters: 1965 Olympia SG3 and a 1968 Hermes 3000.
It’s a great blog of his work from over the past year and a half, and you can see the complexity develop over that time. Nods to Star Wars, and even one for the hoons, makes this a must link for mine.
See his art in this blog, and his Live Journal is over here. -Seamus Byrne
[via Boing Boing] More »
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