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Chumbophone mixes chumby with Steampunk styling

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 30th 2009 No Comments

chumbophone 1 245x313 custom Since you can now pick up a set of chumby guts without bothering with the standard casing, the real fun for the platform is in fashioning a unique housing for the internet-connected widget display. That can be as basic as the cardboard box the components come with, or you can go the route of one particular Etsy seller and put together a somewhat Steampunk-esque retro enclosure.

Called the Chumbophone, as far as we can tell the various brass horns, controls and other appendages are all decorative rather than functional. The only real controls are the power button, the front panel key and the chumby’s 3.5-inch 320 x 240 touchscreen, which is still enough to browse various web widgets, control music – either streaming or local – and do everything else that makes chumby so appealing.

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Hi Tech Comptometer: gorgeous Steampunk AV controller [Video]

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 1st 2009 No Comments

You’ve got to give Hi Tech Systems some credit for effort: to help their broadcast video controllers stand out at a recent industry expo, they put together the Comptometer, a Steampunk-styled console which, so the backstory goes, gives access to 1930s broadcast footage. The controller is full of nixie tubes, brass buttons and analog dials, and a rather loveable “test calibration” system made up of tiny clacking hammers.

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Video demo after the cut

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Nooka Zot-V Makes Steampunk Look Like Ancient History

By Evan Selleck on Thursday, Aug 27th 2009 No Comments

We're not sure, exactly, what people's fascination is with telling time without numbers, but it seems like the fad isn't going away any time soon. But hey, as long as they keep looking somewhat stylish, who's to say that they really should go anywhere? This time around, we've got something from the company Nooka, and yes, we agree, that is pretty much the coolest name for a company. Ever.

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Steampunk Pocket Memory USB 4GB Flash Drive Is Available but That Doesn’t Mean You’ll Buy It

By Evan Selleck on Wednesday, Aug 26th 2009 No Comments

Steampunk is definitely here, and it’s not going anywhere any time soon. Whether you like it or not. And while we’ve covered it before, this time it seems a bit too much to handle. We love flash drives as much as the next person, and Steampunk is a great design aesthetic, but let’s be honest: price matters. Apparently, not everyone got that memo.

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Sony PS3 Slim teardowns splay new console’s guts [Video]

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Aug 26th 2009 No Comments

With Sony’s PS3 Slim showing up for sale all over, and word from the company themselves that retailers have been given the green light to begin swapping cash for consoles, it’s only right and fair that the trusty teardown teams begin their dismantling. Both iFixit and Rapid Repair have had their screwdrivers on standby in the run up to the new PS3 Slim’s release, and along with the warning that a teardown “should not be used as disassembly instructions” have set to work stripping the console to its component parts.

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Video of teardown process after the cut

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Steampunk Phone From Russia Looks Amazing

By Evan Selleck on Monday, Aug 24th 2009 No Comments

We’ve had a few Steampunk items come up on here before, and we’d be lying if we said that we didn’t hold a natural affinity for these things. How can you not? The workmanship alone makes these gadgets pretty amazing, and whil the aesthetics might not be for everybody, we find it hard to deny the sort of primordial attractiveness these devices have. Like this cell phone for example, which was caught on picture from Russia, and encompasses everything Steampunk in one solid form factor. We’ve got plenty of shots after the break.

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Steampunk analog synth: what brass etching was invented for

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jul 2nd 2009 No Comments

Steampunk continues to divide opinion, with some still entranced by etched brass, cogs and masterful repurposing of what would otherwise be thrown away as trash, while other think it a tired meme that doesn’t know when to give up. We’re thinking that both groups would find some appeal in Moritz Wolpert’s Steampunk analog synth, however.

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Steampunk gaming PC will be given away

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, May 26th 2009 2 Comments

The one thing better than a great vast Steampunk gaming PC is winning one, and that’s just what’s going to happen with this custom Jake Hildebrandt creation. Crafted from wood, copper and a variety of brass embellishments, the guts of the PC are just as impressive as the exterior (though thankfully a whole lot more up to date): an Intel Core i7 965 CPU, 12GB of DDR3 RAM and dual ATI Radeon 4870X2 graphics.

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Steampunk LCD Monitor is brassy, gold goodness

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, May 19th 2009 No Comments

If you like a little bit of Victorian flair with your technology, then you’ll definitely appreciate this Steampunk LCD Monitor which fulfills its duty as a computer screen, but let’s face it, this one is really all about the style.

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DIY Glove Phone

By Chris Davies on Friday, May 1st 2009 No Comments

The best hacks don’t necessarily make a gadget any easier to use, or more discrete: they just make them cooler. That’s why this DIY glove phone is so awesome; it takes a Samsung A300 and a leather glove, and crafts a bizarre contraption that you dial by tapping buttons on the fingers, and use by holding your little finger to your mouth and your thumb to your ear.

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