Just because they could – steampunk Portal gun

The Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (or Portable Quantum Tunnelling Device, to give it its original scientific name) has firmly placed itself among our favourite pieces of imaginary tech.

We already announced that an official replica of Valve’s Portal gun will be hitting our shelves later this year, and now Deviant Art user batman-n-bananas has created a homemade steampunk Portal gun guaranteed to make even the hardiest of geeks and gamers drool with nerd-lust.

Crafted out of a combination of plumbing parts, light bulbs, nuts, bolts and a cascade of glue, the steampunk Portal gun adds a certain classy old-world charm to Valve’s legendary creation.

Sadly this is a one-off piece, but you can still pre-order the Original replica for £100 from Play.com. It’s slated to be out on May 15th, after which you can glue as many cogs, springs and pocket watches to it as your steampunk heart desires while scoffing down some well-deserved cake.

Feel free to also check out our 5 of the best movie prop replicas feature for some more wallet-tempting options.

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Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home