I wonder what his word per minute count was and how well he could align those letters. I can’t imagine anyone using this for anything other than a stunt. Now I’ve seen everything so I suppose I can finally throw my glasses out!

Rick

“For when cutting out letters from magazines for your ransom note won’t do.”

Doubles as brass knuckles.
Do NOT get in to a fight with that guy!
You’ll find that words CAN hurt you!

Was the guy’s name Etaoin Shrdlu?

Add upper case, punctuation and numbers, and you need a couple of dozen fingers.

That’s like reinventing the wheel as a triangle.

A “Machine”? I think “rings” are a better term.

It makes me think of these three letters:

W
T
F

This Austrian, whoever he is/was, invented a solution to a problem that didn’t exist. This is like that kid (wish I knew his name) who invented hangers that collapse so you can pull your shirt off of them instead of undoing a button and removing them like a civilized human being.

On a less serious note, the comments that have been posted so far have almost made me LOL.