Modern technology

[wobs]

Do you live in a period property who's decorations are victorian, but find that modern technology seems to spoil the whole look?

Worry no more! Steampunk art is here to help those beige, silver or black boxes blend into that "authentic" Victorian house:

Water cooled PC

There is a PC tower that is about 8ft tall, but its a bit OTT.

A monitor:

Or a laptop:

When its closed:

There's also a mouse, and webcams out there in similar styles.
And calculators here:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/04/you-know-you-want-this-steampunk-gear.html

Still looking for a satellite dish.

Jules Vern eat your heart out.

 

[robgil]

fantastic. captian nemo would probably love that lap top , providing he hasn't already got one.

 

[Flyfisher]

Jules Verne eat your heart out.

That was also my immediate thought when I saw those pics - they could have come straight out of Nautilus.

I'm not entirely convinced about the effectiveness of that wooden heatsink in the first photo though. :wink:

 

[Gareth Hughes]

I used to work for an architect whose enthusiasm for disguising anything the Georgians didn't have as something Georgian went to such absurd extremes (my view is, if you don't want to look at domestic appliances the Georgians didn't have, don't have them) that we, his minions, used to joke that if he'd designed the Walkman (that's a sort of olden-days iPod for our younger readers) it would be a teak box about five feet by three feet with brass handles for the four slave bearers to carry it on poles.

But I see that he's been beaten to it in realising the dream.