Watch this typewriter pound out ASCII selfies

[Shawn Knight]

Typewriters are obsolete, you say? Try telling that to Dmitriy Morozov. The Russian artist, engineer and musician took a Brother sx-4000 typewriter and combined it with an iSight camera, an Arduino kit and lots of ingenuity to create what has to be the world’s first typewriter capable of printing ASCII selfies.

The creation was recently shown off during the 101 festival in Smolny, St. Petersburg in Germany according to Engadget. What’s ironic about it is the fact that it uses a dated technology to create a modern image through a dated art form.

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[VitalyT]

And it hurts just watching it...

 

[seeprime]

Sometimes, being able to do something isn't a good enough reason to actually do it.

 

[Uncle Al]

Kind of slow. The old ones we had at UofL used the Western Union teletypewriters and they moved along at a brisk pace (300 baud) compared to this one ..... guess it's like me and has forgotten how to do it ... quickly! LOL

 

[captaincranky]

Sometimes, being able to do something isn't a good enough reason to actually do it.

Something you should have shared with CBS executives when they decided to make Katie Couric their Evening News anchor..

 

[stewi0001]

Irony that he's a musician but didn't add any music to his video

 

[captaincranky]

He is a man after my own heart in that he never throws anything away..

 

[cliffordcooley]

Wasn't the pounding of the typewriter music enough for you?

 

[captaincranky]

I used to loath typewriters. I'd get about two pages typed before I had to replace the correction ribbon.

 

[cliffordcooley]

At least you were proofing your work. People today don't bother and it is an easy enough task.