Gizmodo: art deco

Alfred Dunhill Atmos Regulator Clock Is an Art Deco Dreamboat

Odelia Lee — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:40:00 EDT

This timepiece oozes with the same classiness found in 1930's era lighters and watches. The caliber-582 movement is so sensitive that small changes in temperature are enough to power the clock for days. [Acquire Mag]

Art Deco is the New Steampunk

Jason Chen — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:20:00 EDT

Datamancer, who made the still-impressive Steampunk keyboard, has moved on to art deco. We cannot applaud this enough.

We're big fans of art deco, even though we're not old enough to actually have lived during the actual movement—septuagenarians we are not. But, with BioShock being such a great-selling game recently, we suspect that art deco could be coming back in style. At least, we hope so, or our art deco bedroom furniture set would look pretty dorky. [Datamancer]

Humidor Casemod Master Puts New PC In Tiny Wooden Box

Wilson Rothman — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:36:26 EST

Jeffrey Stephenson, the man who first looked at a cigar humidor and said, "I can turn that into a PC," has made another Art Deco PC out of wood. The G-metric Nano, which will be unveiled publicly at CES this year, is the smallest enclosure Stephenson could design that contained a VIA NX15000 Nano-ITX mainboard, 1GB of RAM, and a slot-loading DVD player. The case itself is hard Pennsylvania cherry, but Stephenson's signature inlay is done with walnut, mahogany, basswood and cherry veneers. The feet serve a dual purpose of adding style and hiding the fact that the large heatsink extends out of the box a tad. [Jeffrey Stephenson]