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Wooden Computer Accessories
polyp2000 writes "It's always interesting to read about case-mods, but this company has a novel twist, for nature loving geeks. Maybe even the perfect accessory for a wooden case mod. Swedx do a nice line in wooden monitors, keyboards, and some sweet looking wooden mice in a selection of different woods."
Computers for the Ahmish.
After years of your computer giving you wood, you can finally give back.
Now my pc will burn with the rest off my house! Aggggg!
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to go with my woodie station wagon!
Too many zeros, not enough ones
It wooden work.
I swear, if I see another Slashdot comment with "It will be interesting to see"...
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As if most Slashdot readers truly need more wood when sitting before a computer ;)
wooden cases huh? wouldnt want an Athlon in there, the heat might cause an office fire. Whats next, tablets made out of stone?
I can see it now, the boss walks in with his shiny (heavy) new tablet, suddenly those power point presentations are elevated to commandment level. Plus if someone disagrees, it doubles as a pacifier.
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Didn't Jack Gallo, publisher of Blush Magazine, have a wood-cased LCD flatpanel monitor on his desk?
Why yes, he did.
In like 1998.
And there's always competition.
It looks like you are trying to remove a splinter. Would you like me to help?
Sure, they may like accessories from cut-down trees.
Me, I'm still waiting for my authentic ivory mouse and tiger fur coated keyboard.
yes, that was a joke
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.. for debian woody fans!
But thanks, I'll just stick to the cheap mass-produced hardware (except the monitor, that's the only computer part worth spending money on imo). Maybe I'm just a functional type..
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
And there are also analog wooden computers.
Picture: A post-apocalyptic world, now grown lush and green again.
"Father, what kind of animal is that?"
"That's a qwerty, my son. If you know how to skin and prepare one, you can use almost every part of it to make a keyboard."
"Almost? What's left over?"
"The scrowlock and the cisrek. Hell if I know what they're good for."
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"sorry, i'm being a spelling nazi :)"
Now that's not fair. Were's the "Spelling Mussolini", or the "Spelling Pol Pot", or the "Spelling Castro"? Why do the Nazi's have all the fun?
Yeah, there's Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific.
If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
It had a wooden case,
a wooden mouse
a wooden keyboard
and a wooden cpu
and it wooden go!
The answer is trivial when you think about it. While it's a bad thing to cut down entire rainforests of hardwood just to make mice, it's even worse to mine entire mountains level just so you get a 1337 aluminum case.
Empty soda can.... about 17 g
Ennyah ATX case... 5 kg
Knowing your case can be recycled into about 294 cans of jolt cola... priceless
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
Bauxite, is that what you build that awesome baux with?
Q: What do you yell when your wood computer crashes?
A: TIMMMMBERRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
Cheers,
Bowie
I tried out a wooden monitor once, but the picture was just too grainy.
Nice! No more putting cigarettes close to the keyboard. Mind you, even over clocking now becomes a fire hazard! ;-)
I believe you're thinking of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, wherein Scottie gives a plexiglas manufacturer the atomic structure of transparent aluminum as payment for the whale-tank components. wow. I wonder if I can get modded down for nerdy?
Or how about building your computer into a sofa, using the excess heat as a seat warmer? (Wait aminute, hasn't Cray already done that..?)
;-)
Or turing your water cooled computer into a feng shuei water feature? (Wait another minute, hasn't Cray already done that, too..?)
Ah, well, never mind then...
Ethics is what you say you do. Morals is what you actually do.
Where do I store my logs?
Hehehe. I'd find it quite funny. Maybe the case would be called Noerd ? ;-)
To error is human, to forgive, beyond the scope of the OS.
So I bought myself a wooden monitor. And a wooden keyboard. They looked lovely.
So I bought a wooden mouse. Wooden speakers, and a wooden printer. Beautiful.
Next up was a wooden case. Wooden PSU, CPU and wooden RAM. It all looked gorgeous.
So I got a wooden hard drive, wooden graphics card and wooden DVD burner. All connected with wooden cables.
With bated breath, and trembling hands, I plugged it all together. And pressed the wooden power button.
And the damn thing wooden boot.
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Matthew Broderick: Uh, your wife?
Because I mounted a small power supply, motherboard, and a hard drive in a FedEx box, as an easier-to-carry alternative to a 1U case (nice and flat, but way too wide and deep) or a typical desktop/tower case (too, well... box-like). As an added bonus, it's less likely to get stolen because it doesn't exactly look like a computer. Though I do have to be careful any time FedEx comes to pick up a package. {grin}
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Luckily, there are no wild termites in Sweden, but there are some variant of carpenter ants.
So who do you call when your mouse got bugs?
Save the trees please...
Why? Because after a frustrating tech support call with no real help, some might end up throwing their wodden computer accessories in the fireplace...
>Well, here's what I don't understand... Why would anyone want an ugly transparent contraption?
You see, there's this thing called "taste." It's hard to explain but it's different for different people. In short, some people think techy color innards are cool. You're not one of them? Fine. You think your taste is good and everyone else's is crap? That might make you an elitist snob, but hey, everyone's entitled to their opinion.
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I don't think my taste is good. I know it is.