Astrohaus has cornered a very specific niche. The Michigan-based startup builds hardware for writers looking to eliminate distractions. It's really tough finishing up that novel when Instagram exists, after all. While the company has made its name bucking most tech trends, however, its latest offering has found a bandwagon to jump onto. Announced at CES 2025, Wordrunner embraces the mechanical keyboard boom while staying true to Astrohaus' mission statement of distraction-free writing. The Freewrite Wordrunner is, in essence, a standard mechanical keyboard with a few writer-focused tricks up its sleeve. Specifically, the peripheral has a Wordometer (word count) and a 'sprint timer' for writes. 'Writers use keyboards more than almost anyone else, yet they've never had professional-grade tools built specifically for them,' founder and CEO Adam Leeb says. 'While gamers have an entire industry creating specialized features for them, writers have been forced to rely on general-purpose...
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