Every now and then I receive an email from someone who has created something truly unique that they wish to share with the world.  Often times, I get a load of crap (hey, I call them like I see them).  This time, I got a submission that is meant for loads of crap.

Introducing the steampunk toilet, created by Patrick Brawley.  Despite my poor attempt at an opening joke, this is definitely in the upper end of the submissions I have received.  Of course, I couldn’t just blindly post this…I had to find out what possibly inspired Patrick to create such a thing.  Well, it turns out he was replacing his 1954 Standard toilet and couldn’t stand to part with it.  So, after some lots of scavening and hunting around on eBay (I wonder if he found any of the steampunk parts through my site) he came up with this glorious and, most importanly, FULLY FUNCTIONAL steampunk toilet.  And did I mention that it has freaking laser-aiming assist for night time use?  Toilets with freaking laser beams!

According to Patrick, the gorgeous wooden calculators of Andy Aaron served as the primary source of inspiration for this project, and I think they make a nice set.  Now you can crunch numbers while on the can to ensure your water pressure is right!

Well, I would be a big tease if I didn’t show you this baby in action.  The video below explains it all and there are a couple nice pictures below that as well.

CGSociety just ran a computer-generated art contest with the steampunk theme and the results are in!  Wow–there are few things more fascinating to me than when an artistic communitity dedicates their skill to a theme that I think is so cool and this is no exception.

Check out all the winners here.