Steampunk laptop comes complete with Morse key

We're not exactly sure how this actually works, but a creative Japanese fellow seems to have created a laptop that looks like something out of the movie "Pi." It's apparently a functioning laptop, with mechanical keys, a wooden space bar, and a stylish Morse key over the trackball. It's even got USB, Ethernet, and all the modern trimmings. Click, or tap, rather, on over to the next page to check out a closeup of that Morse key...

[Via Boing Boing]

[Andrew Mundy @ Oct 13th 2006 6:54PM]

This is so awesome. Does it have a price?

[binary_hero @ Oct 13th 2006 11:04AM]

But Pi had no steampunk at all. It was set in the modern day, albeit with a pretty large supercomputer.

[MitchW @ Oct 13th 2006 11:11AM]

Much more like something out of Terry Gilliam's "Brazil where they actually had typewriter computers. Check it out for a whole lot of steam-punk fun.

[bhTodd @ Oct 13th 2006 11:13AM]

More like Brazil or Naked Lunch...

[Garth Bock @ Oct 13th 2006 11:40AM]

Looks more like the terminals used in Max Headroom.

[kyle allen @ Oct 13th 2006 11:48AM]

how do you close it?

[Jens @ Oct 14th 2006 7:27AM]

Try clicking the picture... it links to a japanese page with more pics, it gets auto-"translated" by google, but you can just make some sense of it.

To answer your question: it looks like the screen folds underneath the base. It's got speakers too. Neat huh?

I want one :)

[Topmounter @ Oct 17th 2006 12:47PM]

That is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

[tiuk @ Oct 13th 2006 12:15PM]

This is awesome, I'm a big fan of steampunk. Gotta wonder how much it weighs though, I have an old cast iron typewriter that must weigh at least 30 lbs.

[jamsquad @ Oct 13th 2006 12:20PM]

What have you done to my Martinelli?!? -- Tom Frost

[Dimitri @ Oct 13th 2006 12:18PM]

Does the carriage return chime a bell?

[Siteseer @ Oct 13th 2006 12:33PM]

"Does the carriage return chime a bell?"

It actually does!

[luke @ Oct 13th 2006 12:26PM]

Best. Laptop. Ever.

[Daigan @ Oct 13th 2006 2:26PM]

This should be in the giveaway...

[carter @ Oct 13th 2006 12:56PM]

It might be safer too use than a normal laptop, as the force ergonomics of mechanical typewriters can reduce the incidence of carpal tunnel injury.

[TomTheGeek @ Oct 13th 2006 1:27PM]

Does anyone else feel like driving down the wrong side of the freeway when they hear the word "steampunk"??

[August @ Aug 27th 2007 9:22AM]

Man, you have no idea.

[Colby @ Oct 17th 2006 12:25AM]

Might have some problems if the battery heats up....

[DIII @ Oct 13th 2006 1:50PM]

That is awesome.....

[Kirk Stephens @ Oct 15th 2006 1:36PM]

is it possible to buy one of these things?

[The Jeremy @ Oct 13th 2006 2:38PM]

I like it. Reminds me of the computer keyboards from the *Max Headroom* television series. The laptop would have looked perfect inside the TARDIS Console Room for the 1996 *Doctor Who* tv movie.

[imageburn13 @ Oct 13th 2006 3:33PM]

Euclid?

[ap @ Oct 13th 2006 4:04PM]

It's not a laptop. If anyone bothered to look at the previous page, it shows mac tower in the diagram.

[mrwright613 @ Oct 13th 2006 6:37PM]

is anyone else kinda creeped out by this? it looks like something out of SAW

[JehovaHimself @ Oct 14th 2006 12:06AM]

Did anyone else catch the "Raptop Computer?" logo or is it just me with the keen eye for Engrish?.

[Bryndon Blackburn @ Oct 15th 2006 10:13PM]

Is anyone else reminded of the Fairly Odd Parents? No? Just me?

[Sin @ Oct 17th 2006 4:30PM]

Know where I can get one of these? ~_^

[Leer @ Apr 8th 2007 5:00AM]

This is like the art concept in Pattern Recognization. What we really care about is the interface, no one, outside of a few technical fetishist, cares about what chip's inside. There is something beautiful abuot this raptop, but also somethign deeply false, since most of the mechanical articulation doesn't function according to the movement design...but still makes me hard looking at it, much like boob jobs...you know it's false, but it still turns you on.

[Dave @ Oct 19th 2007 7:34AM]

That wouldn't look out of place in rapture. (Bioshock)