Billed as “a groundbreaking advancement in the field of obsolescence!” the USB Typewriter is the perfect computer/old-timey typewriter device for a Mercury employee who wants to get stabbed in the face… by me. OH FINE, they’re kind of beautiful, I guess, and muy romantical, but do you really want to be the person in your office that sounds like, “clickity-clackity, clickity-clackity, BING! Shhhhhhrop! Clickity-clackity, clickity-clackity-THUNK!” (That last thunk is me sticking a knife in your face.) Anyway, get the conversion kit or ready-made models and see many more gorgeous pics here, and LET’S VOTE!
Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.) More by Wm. Steven Humphrey
I am on a never ending quest for a decent iPad keyboard. Therefore, I will allow it.
hipster-ass shit
I’m sorry, but that is a thing of beauty. If it actually felt like a manual, if the keys had some heft, I would use one.
Manual typewriters feel really great, it’s like playing a piano compared to a Casio.
@C&B: GO GET YOURSELF AN OLD MODEL M KEYBOARD. THAT’S MY JAM.