In an alternate reality Charles Babbage’s difference engine and Ada Lovelace’s computer programming led us into a world filled with brass-keyed laptops with phonograph speaker systems. Several artists ...

"Steampunk is much more than an aesthetic," says VanderMeer, who is both an award-winning publisher and software manager at a leading computer company. "It's also about putting your hands on something ...

Saying that steampunk is played out is almost getting played out itself, but they just keep making things. This week we have a another winner: a computer! Covered in ...

I admire people who can take a modern working product like a computer, turn it into a steampunk work of art, and still have the device function properly. If I were to disassemble a computer display, I ...

A computer workstation built from Victorian-era bathroom fixtures spells retro-futuristic relief at a new exhibit of geek-friendly "antiques." The Steampunk Time Machine Antique Master Bathroom ...

What happens when you combine a laptop nicknamed The Beast with a subculture that is sweeping across the nation like a maelstrom? Sony has been steampunk’d, and the company asked for it. Marrying ...

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For Jake von Slatt, steampunk mechanical hacker, both the do-it-yourself and steampunk movements are driven by the same obsession: the idea that a single mad engineer working in his lab can help ...

We may have awesome technology, but our great-grandparents had awesome-looking technology. And therein lies much of the appeal of the Steampunk movement. Today’s sleek beige boxes and flat black ...

Live in the past–in style, baby! That must be what this guy was thinking when he came up with the Victorian/Steampunk Laptop. And you can now pre-order one for yourself–provided you can spare $5500.

Jake Von Slatt's steampunk persona is of a gentleman scientist tinkering on his clockwork contraptions, hoping to one day present his discoveries to the Royal Academy in London. By day Linux systems ...