typewriter
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This Question-Answering Typewriter Is Like if We Had Siri in the ’70s
Although they’re far from perfect in their modern incarnation, Maker Cameron Coward’s latest video shows us what smart assistants could have been like in the ‘70s, decades before voice recognition and even personal computers, when an electric typewriter would have been the only way to interact with them. We’re suddenly a lot more appreciative of…
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Lego’s Latest Fan-Designed Set Is Going to Confuse an Entire Generation of Builders
YouTube is full of videos of teens and twenty-somethings confusedly poking the dial on old rotary phones, or struggling to get a Game Boy to recognise screen taps. The same thing’s going to happen with Lego’s new lavishly detailed typewriter model. “It’s a laptop, with a paper screen?”
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The Typewriter Makes A Fabulous Addition To Any Symphony Orchestra
Now that the tablet has well and truly killed the world’s typewriters, whatever will we do with them? Put them into symphony orchestras of course.