If you like to keep your music-listening experience a little vintage but don’t have enough milk crates — or square footage — to keep your collection entirely in vinyl, the iPhonograph might be able to help you out. Boasting the style of a classic phonograph (or gramaphone, or graphophone, or zonophone, or whatever) and the ability to use your iPad or iPhone, the iPhonograph is perfect for those of you who pretend to want to live in the past, but really couldn’t part with your precious iDevices.

If you’re devoted to someday living an entirely steampunk life, there’s good news to be had; you can still have a guitar. Tony Cochran has taken upon himself the selfless endevour of bringing steampunk guitars into the world, and they are beautiful. Naturally, you might be wondering if they still work, and the answer is a resounding yes. They make good art pieces, but can still rock out.

This handsome wooden bird statue started life as a lowly decoy, presumably to distract live birds from a wily human hunter. But it has arisen reborn and renewed with some found-object plumage thanks to Jim and Tori Mullan. In true steampunk fashion the natural flies headlong into the mechanical, and the result is a splendid display of strange robotic song birds. What’s more, some of them even have little hats.

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It’s Halloween, and that means pillowcases full of candy and sheets full of people dressing as ghosts.  If you want to differentiate yourself from the rest of the pillowcase plebeians, however, deviantART user Yamiguru has fashioned the above steampunk trick or treat buckets, an alternate past take on the iconic plastic orange buckets. As expected, one has a monocle, while another is making use of a gas mask — the steampunk enthusiasts face-clothing of choice. Each pumpkin also sports LED eyes, something that’ll either make the trick or treater safe while crossing the street, or an annoyance to his or her friends trying to act scary rather than blinky.

The above wood and metal steampunk gun began life as a NERF N-Strike Barricade RV-10, then after a heavy makeover by faustus70, was converted into the neat wooden barrel-esque design seen above. The wooden casing was built with planks cut from a wooden chair, and then wrapped with hand-cut aluminum strips. The gun doesn’t only look pretty, it serves as a functioning NERF gun, sporting a magazine that holds ten whistler darts, as well a 3x magnification scope. The gun takes 3 AA batteries, and best of all (or worst of all, if you’re broke), the gun is available for purchase through Etsy.

We’ve already seen a steampunk cellphone and an entire steampunk apartment, so it seems like only a matter of time until all of our modern day luxuries have been dragged back into an alternate 1890. Will Rockwell is doing his best to help with that process. In addition to creating more far out things like a Spirit Harvester, Rockwell has effectively steampunked up an MP3 player and a variety of USB drives.

All of his intricate creations are up for sale at his Etsy shop, but beware, they don’t come cheap; the cheapest steampunk USB drive you’ll be able to get goes for $70 and most of the others are upwards of $100. Looking at them and drooling a little bit, however, is free.

Have you always wanted to live in an alternate-world 1890? Well now you can, sort of, and it’ll only cost you $1.75 million dollars. Filmmaker Jeremy Noritz bought the Manhattan apartment for $1.3 million back in 2006 when, apparently, the apartment still looked like it belonged in 2006. The steampunk renovation has largely been Noritz’s “little” project. The extensive remodling he’s done includes a bedroom designed to look like an exploded blimp and bathrooms hidden behind walls of gears and cogs. It was a personal passion for Noritz, who did his interior design with real reclaimed material, not prefab steampunk toys.

The apartment has been put up for sale not because Noritz has tired of this particular setting and theme, but rather because his job requires him to travel a great deal and he’d like to have someone enjoying the apartment instead of having it sit all by its lonesome. Considering the place was $1.3 million back in 2006, the extravagant price probably doesn’t have that much to do with the steampunk decorations. If you don’t control for rising prices, the steampunk trappings only account for 25% of the new price. If you like the color brown, want to live in NYC, and have a couple million dollars burning a hole in your trust fund, why not?

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Sure, your 256-bit military-grade encryption may keep snoopers out of your data for centuries, but why stop there? Why not make the lives of any would-be hackers miserable before they can even get their mitts on your data, and also look swanky in the process? That’s what one Russian AutoCAD enthusiast must have been thinking when he created this wonderful little USB drive sleeved in a cryptex-style combination lock.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like this little beauty will be making it onto Etsy or other fine steampunk purveyors. But if you have a machine shop at your disposal, maybe you can imitate this lovely design. And if you do, I will personally pay you a reasonable sum of money for it.

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So let’s say you’re looking to give your living space a little of that rustic flare with some mounted animal heads, but you’re not to keen on killing animals. Also, you’re really into recycling, robots, steampunk, and octopuses. If this is the case, you’d do well to investigate the art of Nemo Gould, who has created a slew of fantastical animals and animal head “trophies.” The perfect addition to the home of any space-traveling robot hunter.

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Are you old enough to fondly remember rotary dialing but still young rely on your smart phone? Richard Clarkson is. In response to the increasing popularity of touch screens, Clarkson took it upon himself to build a decidedly steampunky prototype that brings some of the physicality back to communication. The phone modification features a good old fashioned rotary dial disc that can be swapped out for a disc featuring, newer, but still good old fashioned buttons. Design Boom quotes Clarkson as asking:

are we happy with the generic rectangles of a touchscreen or do we want something with more tangibility, something with more life, something with more aura?

It’s only a prototype for the time being and there’s no telling if and when a product like this might be available for purchase. Still, it definitely has some serious aura. Cell phones these days need a little more scratched up brass.

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