Retro Palm Pilot Case

PsyMaster writes "I found this article over at PalmStation. There's a dude who made a Palm case out of rosewood. There are some great pics and the person even changed his stylus to be wood-covered. I wondered if it was a simulated wood initially, but you can definitely see the real wood scratches. Very cool."

Comments

Individual Creativity

[Effugas]

And to think. With but a line in a contract, this is the kind of individual creativity that the software industry would seek to suppress.

Yes, this is hardware, so yes, this guy can do whatever he pleases with it once he owns it. I think the world's a better place because of it--the ingenious and polished nature of this design will hopefully inspire new and fascinating ideas from case designers.

Once you accept the value from such individual achievement in hardware, it is impossible to claim it disappears in software, in music, or even in a DVD video.

And once you allow the right to modify and create anew to slip to a simple stroke of seven point text, you doom everyone to nothing more than derivative boredom.

There's more to the DVD case than technicalities. The sheer beauty of this Palm Pilot is but a whisper of the possibilities.

Yours Truly,

Dan Kaminsky
DoxPara Research
http://www.doxpara.com