If the machine gun fire of a buckling spring keyboard isn’t enough for you, there’s only one solution: [Russell]’s typewriter turned into a mechanical keyboard. Converting typewriters into ...

It’s something of a footnote today but it seems Coleco did get something right as it had a great keyboard. [Nick Bild] has one, and he’s brought it into the 21st century with a USB interface.

This is a fresh crowd-funded invention (spotted by Retro To Go) which gives the humble Bluetooth keyboard the appearance of an old-style typewriter. We're talking round keys which look like they ...