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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: hashbaz on Wed, 03 September 2014, 14:47:28
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Apparently Tom Hanks is a typewriter collector. I wonder if he knows about the Qwerkywriter?
Personal letters, thank-you notes, office memos, to-do lists, and rough drafts of story pages come alive with the individualism only a typewriter can create. The typewriter experience not only provides tactile pleasure, but you can feel the rhythm of your work with each “SHOOK SHOOK” or “FITT-FITT!” A note drafted by a Hanx Writer has its own unique statement-making personality and with each thoughtful nuance, the Hanx Writer app recreates the typewriter experience in a way that’s never been done before.
Official page (http://www.hitcents.com/b2b/work/hanx)
NPR story (http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/09/02/345254677/in-tom-hanks-ipad-app-typewriters-make-triumphant-return-ding)
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We could embed that into the GH122...
- Ron | samwisekoi
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We could embed that into the GH122...
- Ron | samwisekoi
Just needs support for a solenoid.
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Someone needs to send an invitation to Tom for the next Keycon lol
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Someone needs to send an invitation to Tom for the next Keycon lol
^ Second this, though I don't know how we can reach him lol.
We could embed that into the GH122...
- Ron | samwisekoi
Sorry for sounding like a noob but what's this GH122?
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Someone needs to send an invitation to Tom for the next Keycon lol
^ Second this, though I don't know how we can reach him lol.
We could embed that into the GH122...
- Ron | samwisekoi
Sorry for sounding like a noob but what's this GH122?
there's a link in his sig. Here it is again:
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=62003.0
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Maybe he is on these forums.
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BUCKWHEAT GROATS - Tom Hanks:
http://youtu.be/JFRohrsZZO0 (http://youtu.be/JFRohrsZZO0)
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Pretty sure this was running on the iPad hooked up to the Qwerkywriter at the recent bay area keyboard meetup. It was cute.
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I bet he doesn’t have as many typewriters as HaaTa has keyboards. But anyway..
"And I've ended up collecting [typewriters] from every ridiculous source possible."
Hanks admits he started his collection when he had a "little excess cash" but, he points out, it's "better to spend it on $50 typewriters than some of the other things you can blow show-business money on."
Sounds like he’d fit right in around here. (Except for the part where buying as many typewriters as he wants doesn’t even start to dent his wallet.)
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We could embed that into the GH122...
- Ron | samwisekoi
Just needs support for a solenoid.
Hmmmmm................. (screws are turning)
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I want to see Tom Hanks go toe to toe with this kid: