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First released in Japan in 2008, the pomera pocket typewriter is now being offered to US audiences via a new Kickstarter campaign. pomera is similar in concept to the much larger, but also more premium and feature-rich Freewrite, a product I whole-heartedly endorse. In fact, there’s even a minimal price gap between the two as […]

These days, owning and using a manual typewriter is teetering on the brink of becoming the next “owning a record player to play vinyl records” niche sensation. In a digital age, making use of mostly mechanical, analog technology is a deliberate choice, but one that’s fraught with much of the same baggage that caused us […]

COUPON: Get 5% off an Astrohaus Freewrite or Traveler by using coupon code ARMCHAIR at checkout After having an Astrohaus Freewrite of my own for an all-too-brief review period, I can tell you from direct experience that a lot of people are interested in that clever and Armchair Arcade Editor’s Choice award winning product. Unfortunately […]

COUPON: Get 5% off an Astrohaus Freewrite or Traveler by using coupon code ARMCHAIR at checkout You can check out an updated version of this review for the 2nd Gen revision at fullSTEAMahead365.com. As I wrote in my initial coverage of what was then known as the Hemingwrite at the start of its December 2014 […]

Typewriter-inspired mechanical keyboards are nothing new, like with the popular, if pricey, Qwerkytoys QWERKYWRITER. While a lovely piece of engineering, the QWERKYWRITER’s price leaves open the possibility for a more streamlined and inexpensive approach to simulating a typewriter-like portable keyboard experience. The LOFREE keyboard attempts to meet that challenge. Similar to the QWERKYWRITER, which was a Kickstarter […]

In reading a recent CNET article entitled, “I blame computers for ruining my handwriting,” my guard was up. As a life-long, passionate technology enthusiast, I was ready for the all-too-common article demonizing technology. Fortunately, it was more of a personal journey/account by article author Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, and one that has mirrored my own experience. […]

As a professional writer, the new Hemingwrite Kickstarter certainly caught my eye. Its tagline is “A Distraction Free Digital Typewriter,” which certainly has its appeal. I can speak from both my own personal and extended social experiences with fellow writers that the collective we often like to romanticize the concept of the “writing process.” The Hemingwrite […]