Steampunking Technology

from Newsweek (!)

A subculture hand-tools today's gadgets with Victorian style.
 
Nagy's laptop is encased in mahogany-stained pine, with leather wrist rests tacked beneath its copper keys, and sits on whimsical brass claw feet. Its lid is decorated with an elaborate display of interlocking clockwork gears under glass, making it resemble a music box. Oh, and you boot the thing up by cranking an antique clock-winding key.
 
It looks as if it was beamed here from some alternate Victorian past, one where computers were as commonplace as monocles and side whiskers. And that's precisely the point: Nagy's laptop is a prime example of the growing do-it-yourself garage-hacker aesthetic known as "steampunk."
 
 
full article with pictures at: http://www.newsweek.com/id/67352?GT1=10547
 
A classic Steampunk novel, by Gibson and Sterling, is "The Difference Engine"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Difference_Engine
 

Bendesky Family Vacations:

http://users.rcn.com/bendesky/events/events.html

I'm not exactly Johnny Quest, flying around the world,

encountering strange tribal cultures and giant robot spiders,

but I've been to some interesting places.

Take a gander. 

 

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