Tired of high tech designs that look hopelessly dated in just a few years? Longing for a more Victorian sensibility? You may need to get up to speed with steampunk, a design movement whose participants hack new tech devices (and more) into steam-era exteriors. The photo is a late-model Hewlett Packard computer repackaged by Richard Nagy into something that Arthur Conan Doyle might use to peck out Sherlock Holmes’ next adventure.
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