This Pen Can Help People With Parkinson’s Disease Keep Writing (Cool Weird Awesome 971)
Students at Northwestern University have developed SteadyScrib, a customized pen that’s designed to help people with Parkinson’s disease keep writing.
A Typewriter Inventor Was Trying To Help A Blind Friend Send Letters (Cool Weird Awesome 795)
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.
The Plastic Bags Of Today Could Be The Fashionable Fabric Of Tomorrow (Cool Weird Awesome 572)
Those bags that we don't want to throw out but can't always easily recycle? We might end up wearing them.
The People Who Fix Typewriters Have A Job That Still Needs To Be Done (Cool Weird Awesome 375)
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. Plus: sitting in a box of ice up to your shoulders may or may not be a job, but the guy who set the world record last week definitely worked.