TYPE ONTO YOUR COMPUTER WITH A TYPEWRITER

Yes, it is the human interest story for the day: you can now connect an oldfashioned typewriter to your computer for a mere five hundred bucks.

GalleyCat on mediabistro.com ran the headline that intrigued me.  Tired of pecking away on a midget laptop keyboard?  Miss the old IBM?  Well, an innovative artist, Jack Zylkin, has the answer -- a gadget that connects a typewriter to your computer via a USB port. 

It could be the answer to repetitive strain syndrome, too, as well as providing that nostalgia rush.  It could be dangerous to get used to zipping the carriage back at the end of every line again, though ....