**The USB (Universal Serial Bus)Typewriter™** is a new and groundbreaking innovation in the field of obsolescence. Lovers of the look, feel, and quality of old fashioned manual typewriters can now use them as keyboards for any USB-capable computer, such as a PC, Mac, or even iPad!
Via Hacker News [1], “USB Typewriter [2]”
Wow! What a neat idea! As if my IBM Model M keyboards [3] aren't loud enough, imagine the “clackity-clack-clack” I can get from my old typewriter [4]:
[Hmm … no “1” key, no brackets either—this would be one hard keyboard to program on, except for LISP! I could program in LISP on this thing.] [5]
Intellectual challenge on the one hand … people within 50′ of me wanting to silence me on the other hand.
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3029144
[2] http://www.usbtypewriter.com/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard
![[5] /boston/2011/09/24/SmithCorona-Skywriter.jpg](/gemini.conman.org/boston/2011/09/24/SmithCorona-Skywriter.jpg){kind=link}