Cafetière (or, as you might say, French Press) meets Victorian deep-sea diver's helmet in the Freud coffee plunger. Switch the stainless steel for brass and you'd have the ultimate steampunk coffee-pot (there's also one for tea). One vendor site shows the dearth of imagination present in gift marketing departments. While this should obviously be bought for you favorite top-hatted tinkerer, Fabstuff suggests that it is:
At least they added an exclamation mark to make it sound more exciting! The Freud gets its name from the café which designed it: Frevd in London's Neal Yard (no, that's not a mistake. It's a strange old-fashioned English spelling tic). The steampunk steamer is billed as having a "unique drip proof spout". This might be so if you don't overfill, but the tipoff I got last night told me that "it's easy for the spout to dribble if you have too much water."
Even so, the thing looks awesome. I'd buy one, but I'm a little worried about spilling coffee into my steampunk laptop. Around $100.
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