http://www.geekalerts.com Gadgets for Geeks Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:01:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geekalerts.com/usb-royal-typewriter/ http://www.geekalerts.com/usb-royal-typewriter/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:42:00 +0000 Patra Beaulieu http://www.geekalerts.com/?p=16870

Stop the press! Just when you thought typewriters were banished from Earth, someone has designed one that is adaptable for your computer and doubles as an iPad dock. The USB Royal Typewriter is not only a fantastic keyboard for your computer, but it’s also a functioning typewriter with ink ribbon and manual return lever on [...]]]> http://www.geekalerts.com/usb-royal-typewriter/feed/ 0 http://www.geekalerts.com/keyboard-waffle-iron/ http://www.geekalerts.com/keyboard-waffle-iron/#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:17:06 +0000 Robert Birming http://www.geekalerts.com/?p=4277

As part of The Next Best…Ding!, an exhibition where the participants took typewriters and transformed them into pieces of art, Chris Dimino attendant with this cool keyboard waffle maker. Description Problem: Typewriter – Take this now useless item and give it a new life than it was intended to have. Solution: The “Corona-Matic” a typewriter [...]]]> http://www.geekalerts.com/keyboard-waffle-iron/feed/ 6 http://www.geekalerts.com/typewriter-laptop/ http://www.geekalerts.com/typewriter-laptop/#comments Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:05:43 +0000 Robert Birming http://www.geekalerts.com/typewriter-laptop/

The Typewriter Laptop is a beautiful piece of art created by Mary Robinette Kowal. She modded her laptop to make the keyboard look like one from an old-fashioned typewriter. (Via Boing Boing)]]> http://www.geekalerts.com/typewriter-laptop/feed/ 1