The image above is not a photoshopped illusion of a vintage typewriter docking an iPad.
It is a very real product, as I found to my chagrin / delight while thumbing through the November issue of the Antropologie catalog.
It's called, appropriately enough, the USB Typewriter, where you can doc your iPad and click-clack away. For $798 USD.
The reason I'm posting this today in The Blank Slate is because this product represents what / how / why I want to create, and what I hope this site will be.
Vintage typewriter = heavy, solid, enduring, beautiful. Old-fashioned, charming, warm. Wildly impractical, especially considering my mobile lifestyle...it would not easily travel with me. Let's face it: it would not uneasily travel with me...I am a travel light sort of gal.
iPad = something that is still in my "luxury" list. I certainly don't need an iPad, but oh...I do want one. It's not a necessity for sure. Whenever someone whips out their iPad and makes a video or shows their portfolio or reads a magazine or book digitally...I think of the possibilities of how I would use it, especially on my next trip abroad. Which is probably when I will cave in and plunk down my $600 at the Apple store.
Vintage Typewriter + iPad =
Something a bit eccentric, unexpected, delightful. Handmade, yet technologically astute.
Qualities I'd like this website, and my work, to express.
The USB Typewriter =
It's not for everyone, and I love that about it, too. I would totally buy one if I weren't leaving my home for an undetermined amount of time to travel. The big challenge would be picking out which style. I love that it is an antique that has form and function (you can use the USB Typewriter to type on paper, too).
When I googled the product to find a picture, I found the inventor of the USB Typewriter, Jack Zylkin, and his Etsy shop where you can see what's in stock now.
I'm very much in love with this 1960's Royal...if only it were pink!
