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What a wellspring of inspiration... absolutely brilliant. I've assembled a shortlist of notable suggestions, and have the day booked for scrapyard archaeology in search of likely componentry. I'll have more to report later in the day.

Cheers, all.

Kaden

Treadle-powered desk fan. Possibly with some sort of included misting mechanism.

chastadie belt

banana peeler

slippers

O.K.....Anyway.how about something to hold all the loose change? Like a maneating flower made from spare parts of different degrees of shineyness and texture, with a pressure sensitive 'tounge' that drops away when you add spare change, allowing the money to fall down the stem into the flower pot.If this could trigger the petals to snap shut and somehow add a nice belching sound(a la Barney Gumble)that would just be splendid! P.S, don't forget a removeable plug for change retreival so no one has to lose a finger.

Two items:

One, a decorative After Dinner Dispensary, such as would sit in the center of a fine dining table. This dispenser comes to us by way of a world that considers what anyone smokes, injects or ingests to be no right business of the State's.

Complete with organized and labelled racks holding tubes and pipes for smoking, humidor, spirit burners, a vial rack, a reusable syringe sterilizer, a blending kit, tincture and extraction set, and miniature scales this set caters to the taste of any guest.

The exterior is cloisonned, rich with vibrant motifs of The Orient, while the filligreed brass base has a small chamber designed to enclose our famous Suggestion Cards, with their recipes and combinations ranging from popular and time-tested to whimsical. (A bi-annual supply of new cards extending over three years' time accompanies this purchase.)

This well-founded introduction set is for the family wishing to provide the latest and finest in hospitality during the holidays, or everyday. Other, more substantial models, are available for the dedicated hostess. Also offered as a Travel Kit.

Two: A Lighted March of Progress World Map - an outline map painted on glass, framed in polished brass, this indespensible item harnesses the power of electricity and optics to allow manipulation of the focus of colored lights on different regions and countries. Some areas have permanent colors lights shining through the map, others are more mutable, changing as the forces of freedom or tyranny gain the upper hand.

From the Owners Manual: At the flick of a knob, a cheerful red lens gives way to the hated green one over Siam...another People lost to tyranny, while a promising neutral blue shines forth from Morroco.

I'm a rabbi, and I'd really like to have some ritual-ish items. Most things it's not possible, but how about a havdalah set? There must be some way to make it extraordinarily weird,a nd it has enough pieces that one could make it quite interesting.

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How about a sundial that has multi levels that swing out to show the time in other parts of the world, or a peephole for the door that pops out and opens like an eyelid?-maybe add a control pad to move it around for a better view.

A negative music box.

Something like... A wheel of bars spins around and strikes every note in a large music box simultanoutly. The player has keys they can press to press down to lower dampeners on particular notes and thereby suppress unwanted notes. Hence, the player does not play notes, but rather selectively suppresses them. Pressing up and down with a foot pedal, similar to an old-style spinning wheel, drives the drum and controls the speed of the notes.

Fully functinal steam punk dental operatory equipment (chair, drill, cuspidor, lights, mobile cart, stool)

Too late... I've been doing Gysin devices for years; I actually documented a build as one of the projects in the book I wrote for the Make guys. (It's being edited by Tom Sgorous and Brian Jepson at this very moment).

I've toyed with selling them a few times, but since there's already a guy flogging the bejeezlies out of 'em on the net, it never seemed worth the effort.

I'll rethink that attitude.

Chris, You read my mind! A Kaden Harris/Brion Gysin/Ian Sommerville Dream Machine would be exquisite.

thinking hat, builds up energy somehow (leave that to you) enough to power the light bulb. May need hidden boosters, today's thinkers.. well..

Surely there's a way of combining your, as you put it, "unrelated passion" for music with your designs (if you haven't already done so).

How about a gear-driven brass and/or wood percussion instrument, for instance? Maybe it creates a beat in various fractal-derived patterns. Perhaps you can invent a way to randomize the rhythm, I'm sure that would be challenging.

SP coffee stein or thermos.

Edited by author 06-02-2007 09:44 AM
I'd love to see your version of a paper shredder.

Functional, beautiful, ominous, making satisfying/disturbing sounds.

A fragrance atomizer with tesla coils. Elegant tubes, mist, pleasant odors, arcs and sparks.

Paperback book shuffler.

Put paperback novels into a stack. The device cuts off the bindings, shuffles the pages like multiple decks of cards, and dispenses the randomly sorted pages.

Bring back hydromancy. An ornate bowl or basin on a stand. The bowl fills with water/oil. It answers questions spoken to it. Move something to prime it for a new query. Chant to the magic device what you want to see (e.g. "red corvette", "iraqi insurgents", "jimmy choos"). In seconds you see still or moving pictures upon the liquid's surface. By adjusting the rim of the bowl, you can see more images or go back to previous ones. Images fade if neglected.

Use Google or flickr image search results.

The modern text-to-speech-to-search-to-projection shouldn't be too hard. Microphone, projector, and unusual controls for awakening the scrying eye.

http://www.answers.com/topic/scrying.

A machine which turns potatoes into french fries.

Okay. Here goes.

Last year NASA revealed that they had developed a technology that could make people's thoughts audible by amplifying microvibrations in the throat. There is an existing technology employing ultrasonic audio to transmit sound in a column, so that only people in its path can hear it. Now, if you were able to combine the two, you'd create a telepathy helmet that would allow people to communicate without speaking or being heard by others.
 
Kitschy or not, it would be an invaluable tool to interrogators and suspicious lovers. You'd sell a billion in the first year. I only want ten percent.

Edited by author 06-02-2007 06:01 AM
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Imagine a divergent historical timeline where the technology behind the backbone of the Internet was developed 100 years earlier...

After the assassination of President Lincoln in 1865, a band of rebel insurgents began a terror campaign which included widespread cutting of the telegraph lines. The resulting loss of national communication led the Union army to fund the development of technology to mechanically re-route telegraphed messages around cut telegraph lines.

How about creating an 1869 era packet switching/forwarding systems for the telegraph.

Technology of that era would ( of course ) be steam powered but use electrical current to do the work. For information storage it could use one or more rotating large wheel with electrical switches at the rim that would be set using electromagnets. "Packets" of messages could be stored on the rim and forwarded to other packet hubs/switches or other devices. Each of these other devices would have their own wheels and input/output mechanisms such as the stock ticker machine, early teletype and player piano.

In 1866 the working Transatlantic telegraph cable was laid by the SS Great Eastern, and I for one would like to see the first International "Intergraph" flamewar between Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde.

A firepump.

http://www.onagocag.com/piston.html

Compressed air is driven by a piston into a combustion chamber. The air is compressed so highly that it heats a piece of tinder to flaming hot.

It was widely used in Borneo as early as 1865, and appeared to have been widespread for a long time.

How about an Orson Wells type Time Machine?

Lamps (ceiling and sconces) are a fantastic idea. Obtaining cool lighting to fit in our wannabe-wunderkammer home is SO hard and often (for us) prohibitively expensive. Bathroom fixtures too!!!

Here are some things I would pay good money for:

A steampunk martini set. Double walled shaker. Find machined metal screw tops.

Comfortable Brass goggles I can ski in.

Steam Punk exhaust hood for my gas converted 1890 kitchen stove (island design, 10" duct) Those modern exhaust hoods are terrible over a nice Victorian stove.

Steam punk electrostatic speakers. Electrostatics sound great and are home buildable. Make them steampunk and you might actually have something that would fit in a victorian house.

SP desk lamp, wall lamp, overhead lamps. Those replica edison bulbs are gorgeous. Now if I only had a lamp worthy of them. I'd buy half a dozen sconces at $200.

A steampunk turntable. Must be comparable with a decent turntable. Or this idea: I regret having not purchased a console Victrola I saw in an antique store that employed a sound board for purly mechanically amplified sound. I'd love one that played LPs without electricity

Steam Punk bathroom fixtures. I can solder copper tubing but what to do about the stupid modern looking fixtures?

Ok enuf. I can't wait for your next creation. Too bad I don't smoke

Mike

Dream machine! Dream machine! Dream machine! Cool freaking Victorian looking dream machine please! You'd sell a bazillion of them!

a voltage discriminater that guides amps.. id like one of those.. so we could have 12v lighting (or any other volts lighting) thats just as light as anything else.. but the amps make a profit.. faraday taught like all of this and more.. ...pft..

It's not particularly purposeful, but I've wanted someone to make me a desktop mechanical bull for a while now.

Edited by author 06-01-2007 08:23 PM
Can you make an aquarium helmet that a person could wear to feel underwater and close to their fish/corals? Maybe it could be a fixture to be attached to the main aquarium......and when the owner feels like it he could squat under it and insert his head to get a different view.

Also, it would be cool if I could play ping pong with myself. I've tried nudging my table up against the wall and bouncing the ball off of the wall, but that doesn't work very well. It would be great if my right hand controlled "my" paddle and my left hand controlled the "other" paddle across the table.

Zoiks... What's not to love about Vox Populi? The responses here are *exactly* what I needed. One one hand, it's gratifying to see at least half a dozen suggestions that I've already devoted R&D time to...nice to know that I'm kinda in tune with the steampunk cosmos. On the other hand, it's absolutely thrilling to be blindsided by so many startlingly original concepts that I never would have considered. This kinda inspiration is priceless: I'm sketching with one hand and typing with the other.

Thanks to all, keep 'em coming, and stay tuned for developments as they happen; There's a couple of things here that obviously require immediate attention.

Cheers!!

Kaden

Oh, and I'd totally buy a brass maglite. Especially if it was turned in a decorative fashion around the lens housing and end cap.

I'd want something in a cigarette case/dispenser, perhaps like one of those toothpick dispensers you see at restaurants, where you turn a knob and the toothpick drops into a small tray.

Or a steam-powered r/c dune buggy.

Idea: a backpack portable self contained Jacob's ladder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark_gap) capable of operating while worn.

Wow. This is fantastic. I love all these ideas! I'm sure Kaden will weigh in when he gets to his computer next.

I collect letter openers. What about a unique device for opening envelopes?

If you're looking for something truly mind-blowing, I'd suggest something like the mythical "Memex" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex), which is basically a microfiche-based mechanical hypertext machine, capable of cross-referencing between fiches.

Not sure if this is the type of engineering challenge you're up for, but it would be fun for the Van Eck Phreaks and steampunk types.

Kaden,

It's always struck me that the true joy of owning your art is being able to show it off to ones friends. With such deep "cool factor", I'd like to see some items that can be shown off on a more day-to-day basis. Some ideas:

Eyeglass case
Hookah
Briefcase
4, 6, or 8 setting flatware set
A charging station for cellphone or other electronics
A beer stein/mug to take to parties. (esp w/ moving parts a/o dangerous)
a desk "clock" that tells something other than time
A rubber-band gun / ray gun
A coffee french press
A vacuum-process coffee brewer
A blinged out brass dippy-bird
A brassed out mag-lite
Evil Genius / Mad Scientists desk lamps
A curb-side mail box
A music-box
A very aggressive candy or snack protection system
A humidor w/ cigar cutter (especially one that doesn't look like a box)

I had this idea yesterday for a sort of modern magic lantern zoetrope contraption that would use stripped LCDs in a hexagon arrangement...cranked with something akin to a meat grinder and projected simultaneously in 8 directions outward from the center of a room. I like that it's unnecessarily complicated for what it does, yet would still produce an effect that most people would find pretty cool. Not sure if that description made any sense, but yeah...

I would suggest a harmonium, somewhat similar to the Zen Sand Drawing devices. Harmoniums use colored pens and paper for permanence.
The print I have is of a counter-weighted table that is free to move in the x and y axis, with a support for a pen.

Shinobu (/m11) suggested a circular slide rule; how about a slide rule (circular or no) that uses binary floating-point arithmetic, complete with guard bits and all the IEEE 754 goodness? Would such a thing be possible? That would be a great tool for teaching how floating-point arithmetic is implemented.

A steampunk compass (by which I mean a device that draws circles on paper, though you could pun by embedding a magnetic compass in it) and accompanying straightedge (for Pythagorean constructions, of course!) would be simple, probably inexpensive (unless you gild it or encrust it with jewels, of course), and awe-inspiringly nifty ;-) Lots of brass, filed metal edges, curly cutouts, etc. Maybe you could package it with a mimeograph of Gauss' "Geometrische Construction des regelmassigen Siebenzehnecks" (Goettingische Gelehrte Anzeigen, Dec. 19, 1825, n. 203, p. 2025) -- fun for the whole family! ;-)

Leave a comment at http://hilbertastronaut.blogspot.com/ if you're interested :)

A walking multi-pod.
A central structure is conected to evenly spaced feet (4 or more). If there are four they are arranged in a tetraedrically symmetrical manner. If there's a large number of feet the device will will resemble an urchin or a sphere covered with multiple radial spikes.
A mechanical or hydraulic system adds and removes weight to the feet, displacing the center of gravity of the contraption.
When this happens it moves one step.
The process repeats and the multipod slowly walks.
I think this device would make an intersting exploratory robot, since it can be built without external moving parts.
This means it would work under water or in a corrosive atmosphere.
For anyone interested in discussing this idea further please contact me at emitozzi@yahoo.com.ar

Edited by author 06-01-2007 03:04 PM
I have this great old 1920s OUIJA board which is doubly cool for having both a swastika and a Star of David in opposite corners (it being from 1920) but it's missing the planchette.

The planchette is the little triangular doohickey with three wheels or just smooth nubs underneath that people put their fingers on to point to the letters in order. Sometimes they have a little magnifying glass set into them for better viewing.

I'm thinking that a proper steampunker would set one up to use magnetic resonance to levitate the planchette on its own, the "Pepper's ghost" illusion to magnify the letters, and an ectoplasmic reservoir of some sort so the spirits could use the thing without the need for giggling teenagers to lend extra energy.

The OUIJA board is a masterpiece of simplicity but the planchette is begging to be reengineered.

whirlbong - brassy bong-y goodness with an internal hi-speed rotating mechanism to burst big bubbles down to tiny ones (geometrically increasing the surface area exposed to the h2o).

i built one with a submerged spinning bit of coat hanger, it was unbelievable.

perhaps yours should be hand-cranked. and encrusted with jewels, dials, knobular goodness.

Two words:
Foosball table.

In true H.G. Wells fashion, I think you should choose a cutting edge piece of technology, and fabricate it steam-punk style.

In this case, I vote for a home made rapid prototyping machine!

Past meets future baby!

How about a steam-punk ipod case?

Edited by author 06-01-2007 02:23 PM
Will L, A steampunk coffee/espresso machine is *such* a cool idea. Whoa.

more musical instruments would be neat. specifically, ones with strings (lap steel or autoharp would probably be most practical), or maybe a theremin-type device with lots of knobs and switches.

Second the aeolipile, great idea.

I've always wanted an artifact from a Plague Doctor. Perhaps a storage device for his mask? (mask included of course)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor

Unfortunately I don't have the means to buy stuff online, but I'm sure you could get people interested in this:
A standing circular slide rule for on your desktop. Keep it simple, but well-engineered. Imagine two supply turning wheels (ball bearings), a fixed slide with a magnifying lense and a nonius for the linear scale. Perhaps a way to fix the wheels, relative to the slide or each other, or to reliably set them at zero.
That almost sounds useful, doesn't it?

Do you want to sell stuff to people?
Replacing normal things people use daily with your cooler stuff would be great.

Ex: If I had the money and it was not toxic in any way, I would LOOOOVE a Steampunk Coffee Machine in the ~6-8 cup size. -Or even better, a Steampunk Espresso Machine.

-maybe even a phone of some type... cordless, mobile???

Xadrian, funny thing is that when I saw Kaden at Maker Faire a couple weeks ago, I seriously did ask him about eyeglasses!

Well, it's not functional, but a model of an interstellar ramscoop, as if devised by Victorian England's best, athrough the worldview of _League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_, would be a looker.

I'd love a non-cookie-cutter-type doorbell which scares away mormons and I can easily hear from the basement:) Also an Ironmaiden shaped multipurpose tool for the kitchen would be swell, it could come whith attachments that slice, dice and make holes in white cheddar so I don't have to pay a ton for Swiss but can still impress my friends.(It would totally keep my mother-in-law from sticking her nose in my cooking too!!....one way or another;)

Swiss Army Spectacles. Glasses that have little clockwork HUDs, like a watch, thermometer, compass, etc.

Edited by author 06-01-2007 01:36 PM
Wow. Those would be fantastic, I think!

Or, maybe an astrolabe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrolabe

I would love a working sextant.

Get me a beer. In a shiny brass way.

How about an aeolipile?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile