Tom Furrier still remembers his first day on the job at Cambridge Typewriter 45 years ago. His friend’s dad, who owned the store, asked Furrier to work on a Smith Corona 2200. By the end of the day, ...

Smartphones, laptops and tablets are ubiquitous today, but it wasn't always that way. It used to be that most learned to communicate via the typewriter. Smartphones, laptops and tablets are ubiquitous ...

As someone who spends a good portion of their day writing, I can attest to how easy it is to get distracted. I've been writing for the last 8 years, and the wonders of technology and social media have ...

While we weren’t able to visit the Toronto Maker Faire this past weekend, a friend let us know about this great hack. A mechanized typewriter that types out tweets directed at the maker, @mschwanzer! ...

Last fall, I brought my 1918 Royal manual typewriter into my Communicating Science to the Public class at MIT. I kept a box over the machine and unveiled it at the start of class as though revealing a ...