Movie star Tom Hanks launches typewriter application Hanx Writer

Hollywood movie star Tom Hanks (in fact, his complete identity as an actor, producer, director and writer) is a typewriter fan, and he even wrote in the New York Times about his fondness for the old-fashioned way of digitizing typing. Now his popularity has reached a new level--with the help of interactive creative company Hitcents, to launch the ipad version of the typewriter application Hanx Writer:

The typewriter on the ipad comes with clear fonts, bold glyphs, and the best percussion.

Crackling keystrokes, keystrokes as if pressed down, moving around the paper, to the end of the typewriter will be issued a "ding" and then slide back, each time the new paper to roll in. Hanks says Hanx Writer is a small gift from his future lud. But this digital artificial typewriter has made a little change for modern times, adding a "delete" button. But those who want to pursue the real experience can also ignore the key, with X to overwrite the word to be deleted.

This app can be downloaded for free, and some additional features and themes can be purchased in the app, but the free version is already available. But Hanx writer is still far from perfect to recreate the experience of the artificial typewriter, because apart from the sound, another important experience of the artificial typewriter-the physical touch of the keystroke-is difficult to reproduce on the ipad's virtual keyboard. In addition, the artificial typewriter also has a characteristic is to knock the word slowly (compared with the present mode of entry), this is also Hanx writer difficult to restore, because its carrier is the modern equipment, but the app's input speed is undoubtedly still more than you use the modern keyboard slow.

And slow is one of the original intentions of Hanks to do this app. Slow down to have time to think hard, sentence. But, after all, the object is a fitting, even if the object to the extreme can not replace the reality. In addition to being able to experience the effects of an artificial typewriter in terms of vision and hearing, you may soon miss the modern way of typing.