Art Deco is the New Steampunk

Jason Chen — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:20:00 +0000

Datamancer, who made the still-impressive Steampunk keyboard, has moved on to art deco. We cannot applaud this enough.

We’re big fans of art deco, even though we’re not old enough to actually have lived during the actual movement—septuagenarians we are not. But, with BioShock being such a great-selling game recently, we suspect that art deco could be coming back in style. At least, we hope so, or our art deco bedroom furniture set would look pretty dorky. [Datamancer]

Datamancer Ergo Steampunk Keyboard Makes Writing Victorian Fanfics Slightly Less Uncomfortable

Jason Chen — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:40:00 +0000

The original Datamancer Steampunk keyboard was quite steampunky in its presentation, and VERY steampunky in its price ($US1000 to $US1500). In the second round, Datamancer decided to do away with the straight edges and make the keyboard both brassy and rounded, two changes that would make any piece of hardware more…you know. It’s made from an IBM Model M-15 split keyboard and is a one-off commissioned by a female client, so unless you call him up and promise him about 1000-1500 real (not steampunk) dollars, I wouldn’t count on getting one this Xmas. [Datamancer via Techpin via DVICE]

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Art Deco is the New Steampunk

Datamancer Ergo Steampunk Keyboard Makes Writing Victorian Fanfics Slightly Less Uncomfortable