Old School Style for Generation iPad

Anyone with literary aspirations these days can probably relate to the pang of envy I feel every now and then towards writers of the past (Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S Thompson, William Faulkner…) and the resoundingly satisfying mechanical clatter of their typewriters when compared to the hollow plastic clack of my modern keyboard. This very sentiment has spawned an innovative typewriter-inspired mechanical keyboard – the Qwerkywriter – currently sourcing funding on Kickstarter.

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The Qwerkywriter is an 84 key USB keyboard with an integrated tablet stand, and a detachable USB cable via mini-usb port. And not only does the Qwerkywriter look the part, the round chrome keypads and mechanical switches emulate the sound of typing on a typewriter as demonstrated by creator, Brian Min:

The Kickstarter campaign for the Qwerkywriter was successfull and they’ve already started shipping the first units.