Comments | _jems_: Things that are awesome

_jems_

Things that are awesome

Oct 15, 2010 01:02

I saw this linked on Twitter this morning. Can't remember who linked it, though. Probably txvoodoo, she has all the best links. Anyway, TANGENT.

( If I had 800 dollars just gathering dust somewhere, this is exactly what I would spend it on. )

gvp, you materialistic whore!, tv: west wing

Comments 7

nyonyo October 15 2010, 00:17:44 UTC

THAT KEYBOARD IS THE COOLEST. Thanks for sharing.

_jems_ October 15 2010, 07:07:33 UTC

You can buy a kit to do it yourself for 50 bucks, which would probably suit me better since the Swedish language has three extra letters and I actually have an old typewriter I could use. But there's soldering and stuff involved, so that's also out for me.

txvoodoo October 15 2010, 01:36:14 UTC

HEE! I keep wondering though, what if it's one of those typewriters w/ carriage that goes back and forth and your ipad is shot out of it like a canon when you hit the return key??

_jems_ October 15 2010, 07:09:27 UTC

I noticed that not all of the typewriters said they were iPad compatible and I was wondering if it might only be those old ones with the lever where you control the action yourself that were suitable for iPads and the ones with automatic returns weren't.

Oh, and if you look at the video I embedded you'll see that the carriage actually does go back and forth.

txvoodoo October 15 2010, 18:18:01 UTC

*nod*!

We had a manual typewriter where the slide of the carriage was so violent that the carriage occasionally flew off the typewriter ;)

one6two6 October 16 2010, 18:18:36 UTC

... WHOA.

_jems_ October 19 2010, 21:22:20 UTC

Right?! I love that I live in a world where someone would actually think of that.