Forget teaching your Luddite relative to use a computer - maybe you should just transform their low tech device into something more high tech. The 22 Pop is a modified typewriter that can send e-mails. It's called ‘22’ because of the Olivetti typewriter classic, Lettera 22 it is modeled on; ‘pop’ as a reference to the email protocol used. How does it work? An ordinary Lettera 22 is embedded in the device, which enables any letter that is typed, to be sent as an email.
The idea for the project was inspired by the creator's mother, who suffered great frustration with e-mail and using a computer. Here's more:
She simply cannot relate to scroll bars, the mouse, control keys and so on. To explain to her that emailing can be as easy as writing a letter, I decided to make for her a typewriter that sends email. It is a regular portable typewriter, which has concealed electronics that automatically sends the typed letter as an email to the intended person when the letter is finished and pulled out of the machine's carriage.
For a full run down on the process of turning the typewriter into an e-mail capable device, check out the creator's website. For additional images, read more
Source: Gizmodo
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I want one!
1sick high tech
2i'd love that. i love the clicky sounds a typewriter makes, plus i don't like word processing programs all that much.
3I couldn't stand the typewriter. It drove me up the wall. I could never set the paper right and the clicking sound was annoying. I would get this for my parents but there problem is that they can't type. lol...
4Neat, but I can't think of a single person who would actually use it.
5I love it!!
6I miss my typewriter.
7o wow..tats a nice idea.
i would try it. 
8this is for the retro lovers ,it looks cool but I prefer my pc more
9This is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen. If your still afraid to use a computer to send a simple email you might as well off yourself. To me, this is like cutting a hole in the bottom of on my mercedes and trying to use my legs to move because I am too dumb to put the key in and turn it to start the car.
Rep the brand,
10materialBIATCH
More to comment on from me because I said so.
"She simply cannot relate to scroll bars, the mouse, control keys and so on."
WHAT?!? She cannot relate to scroll bars? But she can roll the dial on the side to move the page up and down. Yeah I can see how different these concepts are.
"To explain to her that emailing can be as easy as writing a letter, I decided to make for her a typewriter that sends email."
Yeah, instead of taking 2 minutes to show her what a scrollbar is and how to hit SEND you spent 2 years of your life developing this useless idea.
Who writes this crap?
11that is bombass! I wanna try it out!
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