Steampunk laptop roars into production

There is no logical reason for anyone — let alone an efficiency-minded, business-focused, cost-benefit-analyzing IT manager — to build, buy or use computer hardware tarted up with brash, shiny wood, aluminum, scrollwork, gearwork and all the other tropes of steampunk that should combine into absolutely hideous aesthetics but, in the right hands, don’t.

There is no defensible reason to pay between $1,100 and $1,500 for a custom-made keyboard. There’s not even a good work-related reason to look at the images here, let alone go see artist Datamancer’s other work, except that they are beautiful — via redwolf.newsvine.com