The world’s first typewriter goes to auction in Köln (Germany) on 22 March 2025. Just 35 Malling Hansen Writing Balls remain, 30 are in museums and the battle for one of the few remaining specimens ...

You can often tell a person’s age by the way they type. Older individuals, like myself, tend to type forcefully on a keypad because we learned on manual typewriters. I can still remember the sound of ...

PHILADELPHIA – How busy could a typewriter shop be in 2024, when software codes write themselves, when the siren song of artificial intelligence beckons to help us concoct better emails and explainers ...

Reverse order: The artificial intelligence revolution is well under way but it isn't playing out how many had anticipated. Rather than targeting blue-collar workers first before moving to while ...

If you were convinced that the computer had killed off the type writer, well, guess again. There remains a diehard community devoted to the machine—which apparently includes Tom Hanks, who wrote a ...

If you enjoy writing, you may find yourself in situations when you want to write on the go, in a coffee shop, or other places away from your desk. Of course, you can’t carry your entire workstation ...

Laptop computers have largely replaced word processors for most folks who want to do some writing/typing on the go. But laptops are also fabulous procrastination machines: games, websites, and cat ...

Jack Lacy had no idea he’d be back in the typewriter business in the year 2016. Lacy, 74, who owns Lasr-Ink and Central Printer Resources in Palm Springs, began selling these workhorse writing ...