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Adam has been interviewed and mentioned on numerous outlets including TV, print, radio, and elsewhere. A select list is below.

TV

Channel 4 WDIV, Click on Detroit, Flashpoint – Adam Leeb talks about Hemingwrite invention – 14 Dec 2014

NY1 – CES 2017: Freewrite Typewriter Offers a Distraction-Free Writing Experience – 24 Jan 2017

Print

The Wall Street Journal – Their Secret for Workplace Zen? Landlines and Ethernet Cords – 28 March 2022

The New Yorker – Can “Distraction-Free” Devices Change the Way We Write? – 13 December 2021

Financial Times – Back-to-basics tech that keeps it simple could be next big thing – 19 June 2016

The Wall Street Journal – Five Practical Uses for a Vintage Manual Typewriter – 26 Dec 2014

Poets & Writers – Typewriters in the 21st century – Jan/Feb 2015 issue

Crain’s Detroit – Inventors offer an Ernest effort to make keyboarding more like writing – 7 Feb 2015

Radio

NPR – Stateside with Cynthia Canti – When fewer bells and whistles make technology new and different – 24 Oct 2016

NPR – All Thing Considered – Detroit Hopes To Drive Tech Startups Away From Silicon Valley – 3 June 2015

Österreich 1 – Matrix – computer & neue medien – 8 Jan 2017

Podcast

eCommerceFuel Podcast – Building Consumer Electronics – 18 Dec 2020

The Kindle Chronicles – TKC644 Adam Leeb – 5 Dec 2020

Successfully Funded – Episode 218 – Traveler – 19 Nov 2020

Well Being Creative – Adam Leeb of Astrohaus – 12 Nov 2020

5 AM Miracle – Distraction-Free Writing – 26 Oct 2020

Author Stories – Episode #982 Adam Leeb – 16 Oct 20220

Reading and Writing – Adam Leeb Interview – 13 Oct 2020

Productivityist – Focused Writing with Adam Leeb – 9 Oct 2020

Wordslinger – Freewriting with Adam Leeb – 20 April 2018

Everything is Marketing Podcast – Freewrite with Adam Leeb – 25 Feb 2016

It in the D Podcast – Episode 68: Hemingwrite, Woodward Throwbacks and Daily Detroit – 2 Dec 2014

Book Mentions

The New Better Off – Courtney E. Martin – 13 Sept 2016

Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing – Matthew G. Kirschenbaum – 2 May 2016

Online Media

The Atlantic – The Future of Writing Looks Like the Past – 9 May 2016

WIRED – The Retro Freewrite May Just Be the Ultimate Word Processor – 23 Feb 2016

PSFK – ‘Hemingwrite’ Typing Device Aimed at Distraction-Free Writing – 27 Oct 2014

Core77 – In the Details: Building the Hemingwrite, a Modern-Day Typewriter for the Distraction Prone – 16 Jan 2015

Publishing Perspectives – Freewrite Goes to the Writing Market Touting Mercy for Moderns – 23 Feb 2016

TED – Why Simple is Sexy Again, an excerpt from Courtney Martin’s book – 21 Sept 2016

MIT Alum – Less Is More, Says Engineer Designing Modern-Day Typewriters – 15 Sept 2021