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Video: Cocktail Typewriter Lets You Taste The Words

Video: Cocktail Typewriter Lets You Taste The Words

Even if cocktail culture is destroying bartending, perhaps the gadget above can inspire a new bartyping trend? Designer Morskoiboy has created a drink-concocting typewriter that converts words into cocktails. You can read all about how he made his invention here, which involved pumps, pipes and multicolored syrups. Better yet, you can watch a video demonstration of how it works below. As Daily What points out, it's entirely reasonable that one could rig up the letters of familiar drinks to match their individual components. If this means we might be able to finally make a Bacon Rum Milkshake cocktail, then count us in. more ›

Typewriters No Longer Welcome At Writing Room

Typewriters No Longer Welcome At Writing Room

The Writers Room on Broadway offers a quiet space to those willing to pay a $1400/year fee... and to those who don't use typewriters. It's the end of an era—one long-time member, Skye Ferrante, was recently told his 1929 black Royal typewriter (with glass keys) was no longer welcome. more ›

Breaking: Brooklyn Cop Using Internet

Breaking: Brooklyn Cop Using Internet

The notoriously Luddite NYPD—they still use typewriters for most paperwork—has a technological visionary in their midst. Though most people know the Internet is just a passing fad, crazy Capt. Kenneth Corey at the 76th Precinct in Brooklyn thinks it should be used to communicate with concerned citizens. So he frequently sends electronic mail, or "e-mail," to a growing subscriber list, informing them of local crime news. But is the NYPD brass going to stand for this? What do they pay spokesman Paul Browne for? more ›

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