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Portable typewriter laptop...

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It's hard to tell what's going on here, it appears to be a typewriter crossed with a laptop + a morse code keypad of sorts, but one thing is for sure, it's awesome and belongs in Brazil. [via] - Link & Japanese page.

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Posted by: MadScott on October 11, 2006 at 10:50 PM

Belongs in the *movie* "Brazil" -- wonderful mashup of laptop, portable and Enigma crypto machine!!!

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Posted by: Foxhound on October 11, 2006 at 11:21 PM

Yeah, I thought he meant the movie too. Which makes sense. My question, though, is does it run Linux?

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Posted by: rdarlington on October 11, 2006 at 11:30 PM

My guess is that this is a portable telegraph system. Your brain/ears recieve Morse and you type out the message for a permanent record. You bang out your reply on the key.

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Posted by: Kryten007 on October 12, 2006 at 7:43 AM

The telegraph key is a track-ball! Fantastical!

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Posted by: cyenobite on October 12, 2006 at 9:09 AM

Looks like it came right out of a steampunk novel!

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Posted by: Fredex on October 12, 2006 at 9:23 AM

The telegraph was the original network from which all other networks are descended.

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