There was a letter from Harvard, the type of letter every high school senior dreads from a university -- a regular-sized envelope, the ominous sign of rejection.

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Even bosses can now type a letter without too many mistakes.

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To quit "top" type the letter "q".

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What's worse, the Storm2's implementation requires a surprising amount of effort to actuate, meaning that long messages were a chore to type out -- not only do they wear out your fingers, but it gets old hearing the screen's loud "thunk" each and every time you type a letter, which we find considerably more noticeable than the traditional click of a physical QWERTY keyboard.

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There's no getting around it: it's a faster, more accurate way to type, even compared with innovations such as Swype, which lets you "type" by swiping your finger from letter to letter.

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Serifs are the little lines trailing from the edges of letter and symbols. (Sans-serif type, on the other hand, doesn't have them.) He likes ribbon cloth lanyards because, he says, they feel rich.

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Letter by letter, his ink-stained fingers hand-set type, ink the raised letters with a hand-roller, then crank heavyweight paper through an old-fashioned letterpress.

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