Collaborate Disseminate
The world once ran on hardcopy, and when the digital age started to bring new tools and ways of doing things, documents were ripe for change. Today, word processors and …read more Continue reading Wandering Through Old Word Processors Yields a Beast
Writing is, as any of the Hackaday crew will tell you, a task which requires concentration. For your best work there’s a need to be in that elusive Zone, and …read more Continue reading A Typewriter For The Paperless Age
The Playdate is an interesting gaming system. It’s a handheld, has a black and white screen, and superficially reminds us a little bit of the original Game Boy, right down …read more Continue reading Playdate Handheld Turned Typewriter
Until recently, most video game systems didn’t need their own operating systems in order to play games. Especially in the cartridge era — the games themselves simply ran directly on …read more Continue reading The NES Gets its Own OS
History will always have its in-between technologies — that stuff that tides us over while the Next Big and Lasting Thing is getting the kinks worked out of it. These kinds of devices often do one thing and do it pretty well. Remember zip drives? Yeah you do. Still have …read more
Continue reading AlphaSmart Neo Teardown: This is the Way to Write Without Distractions
Back before there were laptops and subsequently, netbooks, there were these adorable thermal typewriter/word processors that are lovingly referred to by their fans as baby wedges or wedgies. These fascinating little machines can put words on paper two different ways: you can either use a prohibitively expensive little ribbon cartridge …read more
Continue reading Hacker Turns Thermal Clacker Into USB Keyboard
For modern students, the spiral notebook has given way to the laptop and the pocket calculator has been supplanted by the smart phone. We’re not just talking about high school and college, either. Today, the education of even grade school children is intrinsically linked with technology. While some might question …read more
Freewrite is a luxury word processor for writers, with a great mechanical keyboard, cloud-syncing capabilities, and freedom from web-based distractions. The post A Smart Typewriter Is a Thing and I’m in Love With It appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading A Smart Typewriter Is a Thing and I’m in Love With It