Robert Shields’ Typewriter

Origins
Robert Shields was an English teacher who left behind a diary of 37.5 million words that fills 94 boxes. It recorded every five minutes of his life from 1972 to 1997. Feeling compelled to write, he recorded his physical state for four hours a day and only slept for two to wake up and record his dreams. An exact word count is unknown because part of the deal for the donation of the diary was a word count would not be made until fifty years after his death.

Effects
When typed on, the users memory greatly increases. They also can sense and control their bodily functions. This includes understanding how a cold is affecting their nervous system, what their blood pressure is and controlling how much force their muscles produce. However, it induces hypergraphia, where the user feels the need to constantly write down everything they do. The person will start to feel nauseous, malnourished and feverish if they go too long without writing.