This is a charming idea: a steampunk telegraph machine designed to take blog and news feeds, convert the text into morse code, and tap out the message. Charming, until one imagines the device clicking to life in the middle of the night, not because a nuke went off in Los Angeles, but because an incontinent Twitter user is wishing his followers "good night." A clip — from Steampunk Workshop, via Boing Boing — below.
















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