Just what the world needed: More cute overpriced retro vintage hipster bait!!

[Triple Zero]

THE USB TYPEWRITER

just in case you're not yet convinced that this is utter crap and whoever buys it completely deserves wasting $500 on it (kudos to the inventor!) because real old typewriters are so cool and authentic and such--I thought that until I watched the first 30s of the video on that site.

Especially the music.

It's like that new hipster-tragicomedy on HBO, Bored to Death, I bet the main character would love to not write his book on an iPad with this device plugged in it.

Fuck, the inventor should try and get it product-placed in there, he'll make a FORTUNE!!

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

that is ridiculous

[LMNO]

The point to me isn't the "feel" of the keys, it's the mechanical striking of the letters on the paper, the unique style each one has.
I do have an old manual typewriter, and I like using it every once in a while, if I need that look. 

(actually, maybe I should get some vintage paper and type out a one-of a kind hand bound copy of the Chao te Ching.  Could be fun.)

Anyway, the point being that if you don't get that awesome typewritten look, then the whole thing is useless.

[Cain]

I'm sure someone will create a font (which you can download as an app) and create a printer which will score the paper, so it can look like it was written on a Really Real Typewriter (for Realness).

Also, I have come to a conclusion.  Hipsterdom is love of retro, only removing the inconvienience of the downsides that go with it.  So, for example, you have a typewriter...where you can go back and delete stuff you wrote, because buying a real typewriter and having to dispose of letters due to minor mistakes is just too difficult.

I'm sure other examples can be found.

[Triple Zero]

The point to me isn't the "feel" of the keys, it's the mechanical striking of the letters on the paper, the unique style each one has.
I do have an old manual typewriter, and I like using it every once in a while, if I need that look. 

(actually, maybe I should get some vintage paper and type out a one-of a kind hand bound copy of the Chao te Ching.  Could be fun.)

Anyway, the point being that if you don't get that awesome typewritten look, then the whole thing is useless.

Check the video, it actually does that ...

"turn of your monitor for the authentic experience"

AUTHENTIC!!!

you can really put a piece of paper in it, and what you type will actually be typewritered for real on the piece of paper, in the old fashioned typewritten oldskool stylee with hammers and ink and rusty nails, with the only addition that you have the USB thing in your iMacbookpad so that "you can read the hardcopy from paper and SHARE the digital copy!"

SHAAAAAAAAAAAARE!!! SHARE!! TWEEEEEEEEEEEET!! LIIIIIIIIIKE!

Also, I have come to a conclusion.  Hipsterdom is love of retro, only removing the inconvienience of the downsides that go with it.  So, for example, you have a typewriter...where you can go back and delete stuff you wrote, because buying a real typewriter and having to dispose of letters due to minor mistakes is just too difficult.

I'm sure other examples can be found.

Black-rimmed glasses with flat glass and contacts.

the "Arafat scarf" without actually being Arafat.

Really obscure music without the inconvenience of actually having to make sure it's any good.

Skinny jeans without the inconvenience of .. um .. eh getting your jeans specially made at a retarded clothesmaker with a perverse idea of human propertions that back in the old days would have been required before anyone would create a monstrosity like the horror that are skinny jeans. Except on really hot girls, which I have found can wear any kind of ridiculous clothing and after a while you'll get used to it and they look good in it. Probably because you learn to imagine what's under them.

[Doktor Howl]

Authenticity.   

[AFK]

My grandmother had a fancy, schmancy electric typewriter where you could actually go back and "erase" mistakes.  Basically, it was just a strip of white-out and you'd have to back up and hit the same exact, wrong, key to make it go away and then back up again and type over the mistake.  It looked pretty crappy and the ink didn't quite stick the same. 

[kingyak]

I love inventions like this. They allow you to identify douchebags at a glance, which saves a lot of time.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Jesus!

[Doktor Howl]

Jesus!

No, Jesus would need the cunieform/tablet app.

[Jenne]

My mom still has my great-grandfather's old beater of a keystroke typwriter.  My sons like typing on it just for the experience.  It's the kind of machine I learned on in the 80's, so I tend to beat the hell out of my keyboards out of habit.

I still have the last typwriter I was ever bought as a high schooler--a little electric jobbie that still works.  Has a bit of a computer inside so it can "memorize" text and then print it out on paper when you hit this key.  But that's a specialization feature, and mostly it just uses this little plastic wheel with the letters on it.  It's ribbon spooled, even.

I used to be fascinated by the huge electric typwriter my grandmother used as church secretary that had one of those spinning steel balls for keys.

[Doktor Howl]

My mom still has my great-grandfather's old beater of a keystroke typwriter.  My sons like typing on it just for the experience.  It's the kind of machine I learned on in the 80's, so I tend to beat the hell out of my keyboards out of habit.

I still have the last typwriter I was ever bought as a high schooler--a little electric jobbie that still works.  Has a bit of a computer inside so it can "memorize" text and then print it out on paper when you hit this key.  But that's a specialization feature, and mostly it just uses this little plastic wheel with the letters on it.  It's ribbon spooled, even.

I used to be fascinated by the huge electric typwriter my grandmother used as church secretary that had one of those spinning steel balls for keys.

I still have an old Underwood manual typewriter.  My daughter had fun with it for a while, but it is now sitting in the storage racking in my garage.

At least until I can find a hipster that will pay $$$ for it.

[Jenne]

Dude.  You so should. 

[Luna]

Jesus!

No, Jesus would need the cunieform/tablet app.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

My mom still has my great-grandfather's old beater of a keystroke typwriter.  My sons like typing on it just for the experience.  It's the kind of machine I learned on in the 80's, so I tend to beat the hell out of my keyboards out of habit.

I still have the last typwriter I was ever bought as a high schooler--a little electric jobbie that still works.  Has a bit of a computer inside so it can "memorize" text and then print it out on paper when you hit this key.  But that's a specialization feature, and mostly it just uses this little plastic wheel with the letters on it.  It's ribbon spooled, even.

I used to be fascinated by the huge electric typwriter my grandmother used as church secretary that had one of those spinning steel balls for keys.

I still have an old Underwood manual typewriter.  My daughter had fun with it for a while, but it is now sitting in the storage racking in my garage.

At least until I can find a hipster that will pay $$$ for it.

I don't know if he qualifies as a "hipster" (he pretty much exists in the 20th century) but my friend Jake loves those. http://www.bluemooncamera.com/

I own a very decent typewriter, and the reason is that I would like to still be able to type after the Revolution.