For those that don't know what steampunk may be, it's a genre of art and fiction that essentially shoehorns modern machinery and ideals into Victorian English/European technological levels. Since the tech at that time was basically steam-driven (or horse-drawn), everything must be powered by steam. No electricity, just steam.
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The general results are plenty of gadgets and gizmos built in wood and bound in brass and leather, leaking steam or having little smokestacks on the top. Also, since this is obviously well within the realms of science fiction, there ore steampunk robots and other such genre standbys.
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It's long since left the realms of the word and the screen, though. Often as not these days, artists will specialise in creating Steampunked* versions of familiar items and/or people. A cracking example is Sillof. He specialises in steampunking sci-fi characters from Star Wars and the Marvel and DC comics.
Here's a great article via Wired showcasing a whole mass of familiar items that have been steampunked:
This? It's an eye-pod of course...
Go HERE to see the whole glorious lot.
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*wondering why I haven't shortened the word 'steampunk' to save wear and tear on my fingers? Well, considering you also have cyberpunk and now greenpunk, there needs to be some indicator for a difference. Unfortunately, that leaves us with 'spunk'. Yeah. Not happening, mate.
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