My boyfriend remarked the other day on how digital documents are designed to mimic real-world documents. For example, in Microsoft Word, when you type, your view is essentially that of an 8.5 X 11 piece of paper. Anyway, I happened across this project today as I was rummaging through the archives over at Uppercase. It's an Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter which has been rewired to communicate with a computer so that the typing writes an e-mail message and when the paper is removed from the typewriter, the e-mail is sent. This blows my mind. But I also think, what if you want to write more than one page or how do you make corrections? Still, it's totally rad project. Personally, I like the idea of a hard copy e-mail which could then be actually mailed. Hmmmm.... Maybe that can be a new fun download!
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August 13, 2009
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Quite inspiring,
I want one of these, it would be a great way to keep copies of important emails and stuff without having to use a printer after,
And you could also back up your email with a letter,
Anyway, thanks for the post
Posted by: software development uk | January 14, 2010 at 07:05 AM