This tweet from the Wired Conference, taking place in London, caught our eye today as it summed up the benefits of thinking differently to everyone else. The typewriter through the eyes of an 8yr old: ...

Maybe the typewriter isn't dead just yet. A U.S. designer has created a USB Typewriter conversion kit that allows computer users to type on their machines using an old-school typewriter keyboard. The ...

Typewriters have survived the computer age and are thriving thrive among pockets of new customers. Gramercy Typewriter Company in New York City has seen a resurgence in sales of manual typewriters, ...

F.A.T. Lab’s Theo Watson has created an app for OS X called Noisy Typer, which runs in the background and recreates the sounds of a traditional typewriter while you type in any program. F.A.T. Lab’s ...

You love the look and feel of old typewriters, but don't want to give up the comforts of modern technology. Meld the two with the Qwerkywriter keyboard. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers ...

Manual typewriters--they just don't make 'em any more! (Do they?) Still, they remain visible icons of the writing life. One man, Steve Soboroff, is committed to preserving the legacy of typewriters.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the anthropological intersections of tech, politics & culture. And this memory came rushing back to me the other day while ...

To answer my own headline question: to connect to the Internet! You can't get online using a typewriter (I tried but I just keep getting a "cannot connect to Internet" message on the ribbon). What I'm ...

It doesn’t require the talent of Steve Jobs to read the zeitgeist and realize that retro is “in” right now. That’s certainly the trend driving German designer Nanoxia’s new Ncore Retro Keyboard, which ...