Last month the South Korean design studio Dutch Lab unveiled Gothicism, a towering $7,300 coffee machine that looks like it could have been built into the side of Notre Dame. Yet this cold-brewing monstrosity was not enough to slake the studio's thirst for larger-than-life steampunk masterpieces.

Its newest creation is called AKMA 3000mL. The machine takes its name from the Korean word for "devil," and the designers at Dutch Lab say its forbidding design is meant to add "a mysterious and dark aura to the steampunk concept," giving the mechanism a "fictional and fantastic evil" feeling. That orb on top certainly screams "supervillan" to me.

AKMA doesn't boil water. As Dutch Lab explains on its website, all of its monumental coffee machines use a cold-brew technique that relies on the force of gravity, of which these java towers have no shortage. Water begins in the uppermost flask and flows at a controlled rate through the second flask, containing the ground coffee. (The grounds must be thicker than espresso grounds but thinner than those used for drip coffee.) Another filter ensures the grounds do not go through. A final flask at the bottom is where everything mixes to perfection.

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