Do you share my cravings for the feel of glass typewriter keys as you hopefully pen your next best-selling novel (emails suffice too)? If you can no longer tolerate the feel of plastic keys under your fingers, then my friend, it is time to steampunk your keyboard! The Steampunk Workshop has a great tutorial (albeit complicated) on how to make the most fantastic keyboard ever. For the not-so-technically inclined, you can purchase repurposed, steampunked keyboards, such as the one featured below, from Datamancer. I wonder if this purchase could qualify as a tax-deductable office expense?
11 responses so far ↓
1 Krissy // Jan 6, 2009 at 3:46 pm
This would be so awesome!
2 Rachel // Jan 6, 2009 at 7:37 pm
That keyboard is a work of art! I don’t think I could subject it to the daily abuses my keyboard faces (I am a little clumsy and tend to spill tea all over everything, not to mention cookie crumbs), but I’d love to just stare at it.
3 jessica // Jan 7, 2009 at 12:41 am
I didn’t share your cravings before, but you may have converted me.
4 Rachel // Jan 7, 2009 at 1:01 am
That is so cool. I’m loving all of the steampunk items that I’ve been seeing lately!
5 tika // Jan 7, 2009 at 5:15 am
wow, gorgeous and functional too.
I dont like the way most electronic gadgets are designed these days, but this…. i love!
6 Lynne // Jan 7, 2009 at 9:16 am
I just discovered your blog via Rachel – wow, it’s great! I will definitely be checking out your older posts.
7 Sheau // Jan 7, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Wow this is so amazing! : ) It reminds me of WALL-E.
8 Duc // Jan 7, 2009 at 8:18 pm
hehe…unusual. It’s a great idea, sort of like Steampunk and Cyber punk.
9 Stacy // Jan 8, 2009 at 10:52 am
Oooo, thanks for sharing such a great find! That’s so gorgeous.
10 Heather // Jan 8, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Wow! I would never go through all that trouble (mainly because I have a fear of power tools) but I SO wish I had one of those! Someone needs to sell them, I’d buy it for sure!
11 Skip // Jan 20, 2009 at 2:55 am
Does anyone make a stand-alone typewriter, like a laptop, that stores written documents that can then be imported to a computer at a later date, after editing, re-editing, etc.?
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