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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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: ...

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.

They're clunky, dirty and can't access the internet, yet every year thousands of people buy typewriters when they could probably afford a computer. Why? He admits this is to avoid the more difficult ...