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Keaton Music Typewriter is a practical machine that can type on a sheet of paper lying flat under the typing mechanism. It was firstly patented in 1936 by Robert H. Keaton, and at that time the machine had merely 14 keys. In 1953, Robert redesigned the typewriter and built with 33 keys, making it more ideal and suitable to use. It was marketed in the 1950s and sold for around $225, and now it appears on the market again, with a surprisingly high price of $5,895.

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Typewriter could only print out words? Oh, man, you seem to have gone out of the date, coz typewriters actually make beautiful scenery drawings as well. Modified by Washington-based painter Tyree Callahan, a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter has successfully created several paintings that are worth of praise, which not only entertain our eyes but also provide a new functional way of art creating.

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British artist Keira Rathbone has created these beautiful paintings with a typewriter. Each piece is made up of various numbers and letters, also including comma, connecting lines, quotation marks and so on. But rightly with such simple characters typed in again and again, Keira Rathbone finally accomplished these special paintings. So genius! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Still miss the classic feel of retro typewriters when we’re already in a digital age? Try this Typescreen. It combines a touchscreen interface with a traditional typewriting keyboard so that users can get a new experience of texting or web browsing. Officially licensed by Apple, the Typescreen is compatible with both the iPad and iPad 2. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Although typewriters have given way to computers, they never really go out of our life but turn into something more useful. Such as a waffle iron. It not only makes keyboard shaped waffles, but offers us a clever way to recycle useless items. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Developed by researchers from Tokyo University, this glass camera could not only record movie but also named the object in the movie. With the help of image recognition processing software, this system could recognize and named all the objects in the movie and storage them in database. Therefore, you don’t have to worry about looking for a very item in the video, what you should do is just type the name via keyboard, the database gonna search the particular video footage for you. [Read the rest of this entry...]