Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. He's talking about the QWERTY layout — in use since the earliest typewriters.

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, ...

A typewriter that paints? Artist Tyree Callahan modified this 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter to do just that, replacing each key with a different hue that can paint on paper. A chromatic ...

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Released in 1989, the Psion MC-400 laptop was way ahead of its time, it included all of these features except one... The QWERTY layout was created by Milwaukee, Wisconsin newspaper editor Christopher ...

The QwerkyToys Qwerkywriter is easily one of the best typewriter-inspired mechanical keyboards you can buy right now. It features a full aluminum body, high-quality typewriter-styled keycaps, clicky ...

Until about a generation and a half ago, there used to be an aura of mystery about the typewriter. You could only wonder at the speed with which a skilled typist would hammer away at the keys, ...