Typewriter for iPad review

Science fiction author John Scalzi has reviewed a Bluetooth typewriter and says it's mostly okay.

The product in question is the Qwerkywriter/, a Bluetooth-packing keyboard that offers keys resembling those of a manual typewriter. The device works with anything Bluetooth-capable and includes a stand for tablets. Mechanical switches help it approximate a manual typewriter's infamous sound and need for strong fingers.

The Qwerkywriter bluetooth typewriter

Scalzi rates it as “just quirky enough to be fun” and says “You might be happy to be out in public with this, you shameless hipster, you.”

It's priced for hipsters, too, at US$350.

“My personal neuroses notwithstanding,” Scalzi concludes , “the Qwerkywriter seems like a solid, pretty and enjoyable mechanical keyboard which I can recommend if you like the basic feature set of mechanical keyboards and also enjoy the old-school typewriter aesthetic.” ®