In the useless toys category...

[khaosworks]

I give you Typewriter Keyboard, a Mac OS X shareware application that makes your keyboard do typewriting sounds when you strike the keys.

It's a small thing, but it makes me somehow feel, when I'm writing, that I'm writing, y'know?

Now, if only I could find some way to make the keys look like that on an old Smith-Corona, like Spider Jerusalem's...

Comments

clicky clicky

[marmota.livejournal.com]

Hey, if someone made a usb keyboard in the shape of an old Corona, I'd get one! (Er, provided it was in the price range of other keyboards.) It's sad that the keyboard market caters more to swoopy pseudo-futuristic design than to retro. Closest thing to retro in that market is the classic battleship grade IBM Model-Ms, with a buckling spring keyclick on both press and return that would resound throughout an entire office and metal case suitable for melee combat.

Oh, googling around a bit on the subject, I turned up this and this. So, there is a market out there for it. Emphasis, however, on the 'out there'.

Re: clicky clicky

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

What I'd really love is an integrated iMac-like machine in the shape of an old Smith-Corona, with a screen where the paper would have been. I've always been fascinated with the idea of mixing high technology and old design. Just because you're technologically advanced doesn't mean you have to give up classic style.

Re: clicky clicky

[osj.livejournal.com]

Like Brazil!