7 Responses:

1. Pavel Lishin says:

   5 years ago at 8:30 am

   All that's left is to stick a mannequin in front of it, and put creepy finger-like covers on the ... typers?

2. MattF says:

   5 years ago at 9:30 am

   So now, all the rooms in my house that are filled with monkeys and typewriters are obsolete. Bummer.

   • Ru says:

     5 years ago at 9:18 am

     Monkeys are a terrible source of randomness, and not much good at dictation.

     https://web.archive.org/web/20040201230858/http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58790,00.html

3. JR says:

   5 years ago at 11:30 am

   Now we need the paper to roll out into a metal mask with a cutout, and have an OCR robot that looks through the cutout every ~20s to see if there's anything to read. If it sees anything worth reading, it OCRs the text, reads it out loud in Stephen Hawking's voice, and, well...

   ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY
   ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY

   • Jon says:

     5 years ago at 12:30 am

     The OCR'ed text should be fed back to a text to speech thing which will be interpreted by the typewriter voice recognition.

     Would be interesting to read the text after a few cycles. :)

4. Thomas Lord says:

   5 years ago at 11:56 am

   Ask it to type "Tuttle".

5. Space Hobo says:

   5 years ago at 1:55 pm

   Gaudily-dressed Teri Garr costs extra.