To start Saturday off on the right foot, I’m giving you a gallery of my favorite sub-genre of science fiction — Steampunk. The idea is simple, it’s the future but for some reason technology is all wrapped in brass, over-complicated dials and a preponderance of clocks. It’s what the future would look like if Charles Dickens wrote it.


Complete With Kerosene Lamp

The full Steampunk rig complete with working keyboard and LCD monitor.

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Terry Gilliam Would Be Proud

This reminds me of something out of 12 Monkeys.

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Time Is Important In The Future

I am not even sure you can actually read time off of this watch but that wouldn’t stop me from buying one.

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I Wonder If It’s Self Winding

Another laptop, I just love the detail on the cover.

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Web 2.0 Roundup

Other than being really neat to look at, this new crop of Steampunk products combines a strong aesthetic with enough functionality to make them viable, which is a great trend. Once technology becomes sufficiently advanced, the question no longer becomes how much horsepower you have under the hood but instead how you put it together.

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