With the USB Typewriter project, an attempt to rescue typewriters from garages and attics and put them to use again.
Miss the old-timey clackety-clack and sturdy buttons of manual typewriters but not about to abandon the digital world? Check out the USB Typewriter, described by Philadelphia-based inventor Jack Zylkin as “a new and groundbreaking innovation in the field of obsolescence.” Originally conceived as a kit to teach basic electronics, the retro-modern creation allows you to use a manual typewriter as a keyboard for any USB-capable computer, including an iPad, with the addition of newfangled keyboard functions such as Ctrl, Esc, and arrow keys. “People love typewriters,” Zylkin has said. “With the USB Typewriter project, I am trying to rescue typewriters from garages and attics and put them to use again.”
More repurposed typewriter items and ideas here. And here.
