Datamancer’s Steampunk Laptop

By Miss Cellania in Art, Gadgets, Hacks & Mods on Jan 20, 2008 at 9:01 am

This beautiful music box can’t be found in any antique shop. Because it’s a laptop computer!

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.

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fluff
Jan 20th, 2008 at 9:49 am
gorgeous work.
Terrie
Jan 20th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Wait…it runs XP instead of Vista? Where do I get one????
Edward
Jan 20th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
How much love went into this!
biltmore
Jan 20th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Beautiful.
Pudifoot
Jan 20th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
i want! i want! i want!
Nascar
Jan 20th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Beautiful work. How long did it take come up with the idea and fully implement the design?
Helious
Jan 20th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
This is a beautiful piece, but that name steam punk is so stupid! Reminds me of the first time I heard the term Emo in the mid ninties. “Yeah man its short for Emotional music” God give me a break.
Marinasaurus
Jan 20th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
That is one of the most beautiful and useful things I have ever seen.
marieissah
Jan 20th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Nice work.
ted
Jan 20th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
cool, but kinda silly.
Ben
Jan 21st, 2008 at 12:51 am
You know what’s funny to me? First thing I thought when I realized what I was looking at (a laptop), was “I’d rather have that than that POS Macbook they just took most of the features out of (66% battery life, -1 USB port, no ethernet, no DVD or CD drive, -25% CPU speed, -50% RAM capacity.)

What a beautiful piece of work. Just stunning.
SmartGrl
Jan 25th, 2008 at 12:53 am
This is proof they had laptops during the Victorian era.
ozma
Jan 27th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
I have a fifties portable typewriter–a tiny thing where only 92% of the keys work–and I always call it my laptop. But this is way cooler.

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