Real sheep's skull mouse is the creepiest cursor mover ever. While a lot of the steampunk designs we find here at Dvice are so cool that we want them for ourselves, I would draw the line at having to push around a sheep's skull all day. Just as with that skeletal mouse we looked at a while back, I don't want to be touching some dead animal's remains all the time. While it does score high on the cool scale, don't expect the sheep's skull mouse to show up at your local Best Buy anytime soon; it's a one off design built by steampunk artist Ivan Mavrovic. Mental Design, via Make. Drama - Gormenghast.
$25 Head-Mounted Display « Jake of All Trades. So it’s 2007: shouldn’t there be more cyborgs? Well, for a mere $25.00 (or less), you can be one big step closer to being one yourself. How so, you ask? Click the following link to to find out! A few months ago, the rather clever folks at Wild Planet released a nifty (though rather clumsily named) little “toy” called the “Spy Video Car”. A nicely-styled motorised car base with decent-for-a-toy steering and an almost silent powertrainA two-channel R/C set, also of decent-for-a-toy qualityA color capable video transmitter/receiver with a few hundred feet of rangeA miniature B&W CCD video camera (similar to one of these)A very bright 8mm IR LED and, best of all, a…A video headset containing a Kopin 300M B&W LCD screen, optics, backlight, and a PAL/NTSC driver board This guide will be all about re-purposing the later, though I will do similarly for the camera and video rx/tx set eventually.
Turning this little critter adjusts the gain–an adjustment my headset needed pretty desperately. Steampunk magazine - putting the punk back into steampunk.