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I so want this!
http://blog.scifi.com/tech/pics/steampunk.jpg
Steampunk laptop
<font color="#cd6600"><font size="1">[ October 16, 2006 08:25 AM: Message edited by: Andyman ]</font></font>
<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ October 16, 2006 08:25 AM: Message edited by: Andyman ]</font>
Hmm.... that may be doable...
I've built several laptops by canibalizing parts from various dead laptops... but I've always stuck to like models so everything would fit in the factory shell.
Honestly, some laptops may actually perform better in that configuration because of increased air flow. [img]smile.gif[/img]
I've already looked at modding a keyboard like that, and what I see on the screen makes me wonder if it really is a working version. Note the number of rows of keys... there's not enough for the number row, let alone the function row. Sure, you could put the numbers as caps over the qwerty row, but then you get no caps of those letters. Maybe if he added a separate keypad built out of an adding machine? Still leaves him short on a number of keys like control, tab, etc...
There are instructions on the net to make a regular mechanical keyboard interface with an electronic one, using sensors on each key... but I don't see the keys having enough movement to really work on this version.
Where do you wind up to get the power ?
By the way, there is a wind up computer already....
The wind-up laptops will cost about $100 each when they come out. But I doubt they'll come with a morse-code key.
That thing is damn cool looking [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] [img]cool.gif[/img]
Even if it were just for show.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">lolQuote:
Originally posted by That Chet Guy:
The wind-up laptops will cost about $100 each when they come out. But I doubt they'll come with a morse-code key.
Remember the first "portable" PC ?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...aqPortable.jpg
The Tandy TRS-80 Model 100, was the precursor of the laptop. It was not compatible with IBM DOS, but it worked....
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...0_System_1.jpg
<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ October 16, 2006 09:56 AM: Message edited by: MM4 ]</font>
It looks totally impractical but with a lot of design going retro nowadays why couldn't they design at least a keyboard with this kind of flair?
Found some of the latest photos of the crank pc, still under development....
http://www.laptop.org/OLPC_files/laptop-crank.jpg
http://www.laptop.org/OLPC_files/laptop-theater.jpg
http://www.laptop.org/OLPC_files/laptop-ebook.jpg
What is the $100 Laptop, really?
The proposed $100 machine will be a Linux-based, with a dual-mode display?both a full-color, transmissive DVD mode, and a second display option that is black and white reflective and sunlight-readable at 3? the resolution. The laptop will have a 500MHz processor and 128MB of DRAM, with 500MB of Flash memory; it will not have a hard disk, but it will have four USB ports. The laptops will have wireless broadband that, among other things, allows them to work as a mesh network; each laptop will be able to talk to its nearest neighbors, creating an ad hoc, local area network. The laptops will use innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything except store huge amounts of data
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It looks like something out of City of Lost childrenQuote:
Originally posted by Andyman:
I so want this!
http://blog.scifi.com/tech/pics/steampunk.jpg
Steampunk laptop
<font color="#cd6600"><font size="1">[ October 16, 2006 08:25 AM: Message edited by: Andyman ]</font></font>
<font color="#cd6600"><font size="1">[ October 16, 2006 08:25 AM: Message edited by: Andyman ]</font></font>
Actually... the display looks exactly like when you take the plastic off of the lid of a laptop....
... just the glass and the metal frame.
That's the easiest bit of the whole thing.
The rest of it reminds me of C=64 guts...
[img]eek.gif[/img]
That shit looks heavy. In the future things get smaller not bigger. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
And, that crank laptop looks like it's for kids which is good 'cause they can get their exercise since fat ass kids today don't actually go outside to play.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">lolQuote:
Originally posted by JacktheRipper:
That shit looks heavy. In the future things get smaller not bigger. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
And, that crank laptop looks like it's for kids which is good 'cause they can get their exercise since fat ass kids today don't actually go outside to play.
[img]tongue.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Could you tell that to american car companies, cause they didn't get it.Quote:
Originally posted by JacktheRipper:
That shit looks heavy. In the future things get smaller not bigger. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
But American consumers like big shit.
lol.....
The 'Morse' key makes it~
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.en...3-1305_img.jpg
My next laptop is Hp Touchpad.The touchpad has a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 1.2 GHz dual-core 18-bit colour resolution and 32 GB of storage capacity, allowing it to exceed the capacity of ipad. And i think it gives me best performance.
You're a bot, aren't you?
appears as a dud link.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andyman
also,
as an artistic statemet/styling,
wood steampunk be 'obsoleet' ?
as far this poster can tell*,
steampunk may have reached its zenith here -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmFcrHbHoAA
the 'net, don't forget, -
Steampunk l - Yahoo Image Search Results
* not that i get out much, ....
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Also, any idea as to what characters you guys want to play?
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