Steampunk Combines Modern Tech with Victorian elements
Steampunk is an aesthetic genre combining modern and Victorian elements. A Steampunk junky, Jake von Slatt took a 1989 IBMModel M Keyboard and combined it with 50s-era Royal and Smith Corona typewriter keys that he found on eBay. The result was a super modded keyboard that blends together technology from two different time periods in to one beautiful piece. The whole project cost him about $100, and his site offers instructions on how to do it yourself. And it turns out that it isn’t just Slatt that is in to Steampunking (is that a word?) and that whole sort of trend. The guys over at Onomy Labs modded a Philco Predicta “Continental” TV from 1960 to house a computer with a 1,600-by-1,200-pixel LCD screen and an iSight web cam. And somehow the original speaker and the vol
Tags: 
Web/Tech

Desktops

elements

victorian

modern

1. Cool Stuff

jake

slatt

steampunk

modded

knob
Related Stories
- Luxeed keyboard lights up your life
- Hitting One Out of the Park
- CLASSICAL MUSIC
- Kickin’ It Old Skool
- More Reese and Jake Lovey Dovey Stuff
- ON THE CUTTING WEDGE
- ‘Red Road’: It’s 2007, And Big Sister Is Watching
- LOOK OF THE DAY: Nicole Richie
- Concept of future credit card
- ABC’s ‘Traveler’ Takes a Jog Down Conspiracy Lane