This steampunk 1700s gadget signs your checks for you - Yanko Design

This complex smartphone-sized device is a miniaturized iteration of a product outset created in 1738, past Pierre Jaquet-Droz. Using a complex series of mechanisms and gears, his entirely mechanical automata could write complete sentences past moving a pen/quill beyond paper… much to the amazement of European royalty, in whose courts Pierre showed off his mechanical miracles.

Almost 300 years later on, his company, devoted to creating magical mechanical marvels (primarily watches), decided to recreate "The Author" as information technology was called dorsum then. Jaquet-Droz's Signature Machine is now available for sale, replicating its owner's signature by using celebrated cam technology and a complex serial of 585 parts, assembled and finished past hand. With a window that lets you look at the complex workings of the automobile inside, and an arm that works on X, Y and even Z axes (it has to elevator the pen off the paper when it's done), the Signing Car is custom made to the signature of its possessor and even comes with an engraved plate featuring your signature. Additionally, so that your signature isn't misused, the Signing Motorcar fifty-fifty includes a 4-digit security lawmaking.

Absolutely exquisite, and express edition, the Signing Motorcar is undoubtedly a luxury item with its $367,500 price tag. Why yes, the pen is included.

Designer: Jaquet Droz