Tucked beneath a 48-story San Francisco skyscraper, at the far end of the parking lot on the first subbasement level, is a door with a keypad lock. An unimposing sign reads "Utility Meter Room." ...

We may have awesome technology, but our great-grandparents had awesome-looking technology. And therein lies much of the appeal of the Steampunk movement. Today’s sleek beige boxes and flat black ...

“Steampunk lies at the intersection of science and romance,” says one of its foremost practitioners, Jake Von Slatt. “It embraces technology but demands technology return the favor.” We came across ...

If you've ever owned a laptop for more than a couple of years, you've probably marveled at how ancient and clunky it looks next to the latest models. That once-sleek Dell Latitude LM, boasting a ...

For the thousands of folks who are already into the steampunk movement this will come as no surprise but IBM has proclaimed the Victorian-era, pseudo mechanical-industrial design technology as a ...

What happens when you combine a laptop nicknamed The Beast with a subculture that is sweeping across the nation like a maelstrom? Sony has been steampunk’d, and the company asked for it. Marrying ...

Long before Commander Shepard started rooting out an evil alien conspiracy, the Master Chief battled the forces of the Covenant, or the moment the earth stood still, science-fiction was fun. For a ...

[Editor's Note: This post originally ran in September 2010.] You may have run across the sci-fi/fantasy sub-genre called steampunk in your geeky travels. If not, then allow me to illuminate: steampunk ...

*Author's note: This first appeared about two years ago at my steampunk novel blog, The Aldersgate Cycle. At the time I was knee deep writing the book of that name, and spent long hours pondering the ...

Pub Guru is a new weekly feature which will give you enough knowledge about a particular techie subject, allowing you to bamboozle your mates down at your local boozer with. Hey, better than talking ...