Oregon-based mechanical engineer Ian Davis is in the midst of building an extraordinary prosthetic hand. The partial hand—in the videos and pictures below—is stunningly intricate and now, after two ...

For Jake von Slatt, steampunk mechanical hacker, both the do-it-yourself and steampunk movements are driven by the same obsession: the idea that a single mad engineer working in his lab can help ...

An inconspicuous, old Victorian home in Harrisburg houses a mad scientist's steampunk laboratory. Thomas Willeford, owner of Brute Force Studios, lives in a house of clockwork scorpions, mechanical ...

Regular garage door openers are dull; why aren't you using a knock-controlled mechanical iris to authenticate visitors instead? BFarn has been detailing his beautiful secret-knock detecting door ...

The Octopod steampunk octopus clock doesn't just tell the time. It tells the world how cool mechanical sculptures can be. This eight-legged clock was co-created by MB&F and L'Epée 1839. The legs are ...

Steampunk has come to be associated with over-decorated, cog-encrusted Victoriana, but artist Andrew Chase has arguably taken it to its purist roots. His mechanical horse is just that: a beautiful, ...

It’s not easy being Venus. Despite being nearly identical in size to Earth, our sister world suffers from a choking greenhouse effect, a surface covered in permanent sulfuric acid clouds, and average ...

With Just 18 days to go until Red Bull Soapbox Race takes over Patricks Hill in Cork, take a look at this POV from the Steampunk mechanical Bull team from Soapbox Race London last year.