“Hanx wirter”, Tom Hanks invents an app and dominates the charts … – The Messenger

A Hollywood look with greater attention the development of technologies and not just for the special effects. To ensnare the interest of the film industry are applications, a showcase of litmus paper to measure the impact of high-tech tools in an ultra-connected society but also a market that knows no crisis.

The ultimate in theme is called Hanx Writer , the app developed with the software house that Hitcents play a typewriter keyboard iPad . The idea is simple as it is brilliant, it is true that in only five days since its launch has topped the App Store as well as production app, both as a paid app, because while Free allows you to make purchases to improve ‘ usability and extend models of machines available.

 What about the simulation of a typewriter on iPad with Hollywood? Got to do all right, because a design the application was Tom Hanks (in fact the name of the app remembers the name of the actor), a nostalgic love of old cars, so much so that it has massed over a hundred in its various residences around the world. “ In the 70s I bought a typewriter and from then on many more different from each other in design, sound and performance ,” says Hanks admitting that he could not resist the sound and movements of the old machines. To recreate that effect retro wanted to include in the app Hanx Writer the clicking of the keys and the ding issued at the end of each line, the variation of the noise in the speed and sensitivity with which you crush the , thanks to which it can be said that the application “ combines the ease and speed of an iPad with the pace of a manual typewriter .”

A simple way to Do not forget the past, but rather integrate it in the present, which results in proposing in addition to the Prime Select other two models, the 707 and Golden Touch , however, available for a fee. Typing and relive a time now locked will be exciting but also must be functional: for it with Hanx Writer you can share documents, photographs and writing on a keyboard connected via Bluetooth. Too bad that for now it is confined to the United States and only compatible with iPad.