Almost as if the digital revolution never happened, the newsroom of The Times once again resounds to the clatter of the old-fashioned typewriter. Nearly three decades after Rupert Murdoch’s UK ...

A few years ago Tom Hanks brought his father’s old Underwood, which Hanks snr had bought at the end of the second World War, to a typewriter repair shop for a simple cleaning. When the actor collected ...

``daktilo'' is an app that makes typewriter-like keystroke sounds when you press the keyboard, which helps create an atmosphere. I immediately installed it on my PC and tried typing comfortably.

As a child, I often woke to the sound of my mother typing. I’d hear a spatter of sound, a pause, a tentative tap or two, some silence, then more taps. With the staccato music of the typewriter coming ...

The Times newspaper has installed a speaker in their newsroom which pumps out the sound of an old fashioned typewriter. So will the sound evoke memories of a newsroom from the past, or just annoy the ...

Thanks to the app, Noisy Typer, created by Theo Watson of F.A.T. Lab, I can have the nifty sound of keystrikes AND the ease and simplicity of a computer. It’s a party in your keyboard, and because ...

It was once ubiquitous in the office or home and now the typewriter is experiencing a rebirth thanks to the efforts of a Philadelphia engineer. Jack Zylkin, 27, has created what he calls the ‘USB ...

Mechanical keyboards are muchly adored things. For many of us, they take us back to that loud clickity-clack that was so common before consumer keyboards went to membrane switches. For others, it’s ...