As a child, I often woke to the sound of my mother typing. I’d hear a spatter of sound, a pause, a tentative tap or two, some silence, then more taps. With the staccato music of the typewriter coming ...

On its own, the sound of a manual typewriter is almost musical. The percussion of the keys being depressed, the ding and the scratch of the carriage as it's pushed back to its starting point all work ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The hypnotic rhythm of an old manual typewriter going clack-clack-clack-clack-ping! clack-clack-clack-clack-ping! is like a long-ago song that Montgomery's William Lee never tires ...

BERKELEY — Maybe it’s the way the letters smack against paper and the ink leaves an indelible imprint. It could be the rhythmic song of thoughts becoming words. It might be the vintage of a manual ...

Tom Hanks’ name can do more than sell a movie, it seems. His recently launched, hipster-ish typewriter app for iPad, Hanx Writer, has now shot to the top of the iTunes App Store, ranking No. 1 in both ...

Tom Hanks has a new app out. You read that correctly, not a movie, but an app. It's called the Hanx Writer, and it is a technological testament to a serious disease that afflicts the poor man. Call it ...