The end of an era has been marked, with the last typewriter built in the UK rolling off the production line at Brother's north Wales factory. The firm donated the last machine to London's Science ...

Maybe the typewriter isn't dead just yet. A U.S. designer has created a USB Typewriter conversion kit that allows computer users to type on their machines using an old-school typewriter keyboard. The ...

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They were once commonplace in offices around the world before being eclipsed by computers. But typewriters are not redundant yet - with one talented artist using his to recreate Leonardo da Vinci’s ...

Last week the Magazine reported on Gordon Martin, the 86-year-old correspondent who prefers a typewriter to a computer. The story pointed out that some diplomats now use typewriters to evade ...

They're clunky, dirty and can't access the internet, yet every year thousands of people buy typewriters when they could probably afford a computer. Why? He admits this is to avoid the more difficult ...

An artist who has used a typewriter to recreate famous paintings and portraits of cultural figures has said he did it to prove that “some technologies will never die” amid uncertainty surrounding ...

It must be the most unprepossessing lot an auction house has handled this year: an ancient, blue, lightweight Olivetti typewriter, acquired by its present owner in 1963 from a pawnshop in Tennessee.

Is there anything more 'hipster' than using a typewriter in a café/airport/public toilet when a laptop or phone would do the job perfectly well? Is there anything more 'hipster' than using a ...