The typewriter is awake during weekday business hours. Messages at other times will be printed when it wakes up.
Ben James added these pithy words on Sep 02 09 at 1:25 pmWhat nice weather today.
Fabian added these pithy words on Sep 02 09 at 2:10 pmNice work!
finally, a typewriter you can email | A Social Innovation Company added these pithy words on Sep 02 09 at 4:03 pm[...] personal experimental project that does what it says on the tin. Use the contact form on our website to email the office, and a typewriter will type out your message in the real world. [...]
kedar added these pithy words on Sep 02 09 at 4:14 pmlooks like the typewriter has a word limit. anyway, this is so cool. the computer’s great grand clunky forefather has got us talking again. neat.
admin added these pithy words on Sep 02 09 at 4:23 pm@kedar thanks, man. we set it to accept 160 characters. it can in theory accept much longer messages, but we thought some people would try to hog it, so we’re going to try keeping it short. we might extend it as we go. stay in touch! adil
Benjamin Tomlinson added these pithy words on Sep 02 09 at 5:01 pmHow are you doing Otto? hope your coping under the stress
Charlotte added these pithy words on Sep 02 09 at 8:14 pmI sense the proud father in you Ben
admin added these pithy words on Sep 03 09 at 3:29 pmPS we’re buying a wide angle camera, so you can see all the messages. details, huh? adil
Typewriting web-bot — Diary of Things added these pithy words on Sep 04 09 at 12:33 pm[...] the form then watch as your message is typed back to you via a live stream of the typewriter! Go to http://sidekickstudios.net/the_typewriter to try it out for [...]
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Lulu Laidlaw-Smith added these pithy words on Oct 03 09 at 4:10 pmLove Otto, the return of the telegram – fingers up to wasting paper…we all love communicating, a subliminal caress……..although I still wonder on the message: why we have one mouth and two ears? Is Otto our second voice? Let’s get Apple to design one for the home, so we can do away with Royal Mail once and for all – conceited monopolists!
2009 year in review | A Social Innovation Company added these pithy words on Jan 10 10 at 7:28 pm[...] we got all the paraphernalia that goes with running a business – a logo, VAT registration, desks, a landline, a (soon-to-change) website, computers, a folder for receipts and things (this time next year we might even have a filing cabinet!). We’re missing a fax machine. Though we do have a typewriter that you can email. [...]
fdbk added these pithy words on Feb 18 10 at 1:15 pmA lovely interaction. can I suggest an upgrade? Could you physically limit the number of characters that can be typed into ‘message’ box above? This would prevent people from writing messages that accidently overrun the 140 character limit and getting cut off. Thanks!
admin added these pithy words on Feb 22 10 at 4:17 pmfdbk – good idea. we’re re-doing the website, so we’ll add it to the list.