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The Solitaire brings us a link to Datamancer, where Richard R. Nagy shows off his Steampunk Laptop. The attention to detail and the creative style, which includes a copper-plated keyboard and speakers shaped like violin f-holes, make this an impressive case mod. From Datamancer: "This may look like a Victorian music box, but inside this intricately hand-crafted wooden case lives a Hewlett-Packard ZT1000 laptop that runs both Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. It features an elaborate display of clockworks under glass, engraved brass accents, claw feet, an antiqued copper keyboard and mouse, leather wrist pads, and customized wireless network card. The machine turns on with an antique clock-winding key by way of a custom-built ratcheting switch made from old clock parts."
I salute the creativity and craftsmanship that go into these projects, but "Steampunk" has not only jumped the shark, but the shark has torn it to bits and there's blood in the water. In fact, you can have my portion of all "tech-nostalgia" and divide it amongst yourselves. I've finished with it, thanks.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Its ugly, its the sort of thing my great, great and great grandfather would use to help him navigate on the high seas.
It was bad enough that boingboing devotes half the damned blog to steampunk shit, but now I have read about it here? steampunk, as an aesthetic is the most unappealing and annoying thing I have ever seen