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 whom 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. Somehow the original speaker and the volume knob inside the TV still works, and the knob can even be used with some apps. (Source: Popular Scientific Magazine)