This Pen Can Help People With Parkinson’s Disease Keep Writing

Students at Northwestern University have developed SteadyScrib, a customized pen that’s designed to help people with Parkinson’s disease keep writing.

By |2024-12-10T06:45:46-05:00March 16, 2023|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

A Typewriter Inventor Was Trying To Help A Blind Friend Send Letters

For National Typewriter Day, some of the stories that helped bring this device to life, including a guy in Italy who was trying to help a blind countess write letters.

By |2024-12-10T06:44:16-05:00June 23, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |

The Plastic Bags Of Today Could Be The Fashionable Fabric Of Tomorrow

Those bags that we don't want to throw out but can't always easily recycle? We might end up wearing them.

By |2024-12-08T15:12:46-05:00July 13, 2021|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |

The People Who Fix Typewriters Have A Job That Still Needs To Be Done

Computers and the Internet have changed so much of the world, but older technology that still has a home in the world and there are still people who still make it all work, like the family that runs the Gramercy Typewriter Company in Manhattan.

By |2024-12-10T06:45:04-05:00September 7, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |
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