It was based in Mumbai, India, and in the 1990s “the company was selling 50,000 models each year,” reports this technology site, but “That had dropped to around 10,000 by the mid-2000s, and last year the company sold less than 1,000 typewriters. According to the company’s general manager Milind Dukle the only people now buying manual typewriters are ‘the defense agencies, courts and government offices.’”
“With manual typewriters no longer being produced, I think it’s fair to say we’re now a world where computers rule supreme.”
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They might have to start calling them something else. Three resorts in Britain have banned bumping in their bumper car rides.
Staff at all three Butlin resorts in Bognor Regis, Minehead and Skegness are instructed to ban anyone found guilty of bumping into each other in the electric cars equipped with huge bumpers.
Bemused customers who assume that the ‘no bumping sign’ is in jest are told to drive around slowly in circles rather than crash into anyone else for fear of an injury that could result in the resort being sued.
Telegraph columnist Michaal Deacon, who has just returned from a holiday at the Bognor Regis resort, said the experience was like “trundling round an exitless roundabout”.
“I’m not convinced that the dangers were great, given that the bumper cars were equipped with bumpers,” he said. “Seat belts, too. There were no airbags for the drivers, but it can be only a matter of time.”
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Oh no! Won’t somebody please think of the virtual dogs? Whether you like this app or not, you have laugh at the developers’ comments about Angry Birds:
While dozens of people have posted comments on the company’s website calling for the game to be banned the makers responded by referencing the app “Angry Birds,” saying: “just go slingshot some virtual birds to kill some virtual pigs.”
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Under cool, gray skies billions watched from outside Westminster Abbey and on television worldwide as 1900 invited guests inside witnessed as Prince William and his longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton were married in one of the largest events in London in decades.
A little over an hour after they arrived at the Abbey to be married, the couple emerged on a red carpet and onto the streets to a peal of bells and into a horse-drawn carriage, heading toward Buckingham Palace. The prince had married what the British call a commoner; now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (titles granted by Queen Elizabeth II).
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Wow, could you imagine living in this zombie-proof house? Hell, throw a little razor wire on top of the fence and you’ll even be safe from door-to-door salesman.
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