Forget invisible ink – in the future spies could be sending secret messages encoded directly into the DNA of living cells. Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) have demonstrated a ...

Store owner Matt Snyder works on a manual typewriter at New England Typewriter in Merrimack on Saturday, November 16, 2024. Snyder opened it to sell and service devices that are decades old. An old ...

It was a pandemic distraction from lockdowns and languishing. I had somehow convinced myself I needed a typewriter. Locating one was easy, but I wasn't expecting to find Cincinnati eclectic Richard ...

A typewriter that paints? Artist Tyree Callahan modified this 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter to do just that, replacing each key with a different hue that can paint on paper. A chromatic ...

Late one evening a few years ago, Tom Rehkopf got a phone call from an unfamiliar number. The caller had an unusual request: “I need six working Selectrics by tomorrow morning.” Rehkopf was stunned.

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric — are but memories, if we’ve heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter repair shops ...