On physical objects becoming less and less physically weighty: Nowadays if you drop your phone, it may not survive. The other day I caught a snippet of GoodFellas, the part where Robert Deniro uses a 1970s-era telephone receiver to bludgeon a crony. Try to do that with your iPhone or Droid X and you'd have a confused, unbloodied crony and a cracked touchscreen.
Keyboards are less substantial now too, and typing on my laptop doesn't make the racket an old metal-on-metal typewriter did. But just as we've seen old phone receivers nostalgically connected to cell phones, David Schultze's Philco PC, Mac Classic iPad holders, and J. Stephenson's wonderful retro computers, here comes Jack Zylkin's Instructable for a typewriter USB keyboard.
