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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!
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Definitely not the case and/or setup for those overclockers out there :) especially with heat output getting real close to 100W...
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It wooden work.
I swear, if I see another Slashdot comment with "It will be interesting to see"...
So what else is new? Here is my first bought PC... http://www.computercloset.org/OSI-C4PMF.htm
And that brown stuff on the sides is real wood.
As if most Slashdot readers truly need more wood when sitting before a computer ;)
Not nessisarly practical but intresting.
I can see walking into a log caben and finding a computer in a woden case, woden monitor and woden mouse and keyboard.
Might also work for a CEO who wants the building done in wood motif.
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The Mac prototype was made of wood and so was the first mouse. Nothing new here.
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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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cut down a tree in honor of it?
Hmmmmm..... Anyone else see somehting wrong with this picture??
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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Wood is maybe not the best idea. I'd like my computer to be silent, dissipate it's heat properly, and otherwise be transparent.
I just can't see wood fulfilling any of these requirements.
.. 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..
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Your computer would never get hot enough to catch wood on fire. You would be able to cook an egg on the metal case long before wood smolders. Even a capacitor popping in the power supply is no big deal. My only conern is RFI, but maybe they put a layer of conductive paint on the inside.
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You'd think a company would make sure they have the bandwidth ready before they advertised err submitted the story.
Wouldn't sweat wreak havok on a wooden mouse, anyways? My lowly plastic one gets stained and dirty enough.
Why is it that every case mod article we have, that will get slashdotted (they always do), causes at least 10-20 "I hope their webserver isn't $CASEMOD"??
:-p
I mean, we're all smart enough to know that they're actual webserver is probably some black 1U server somewhere
I don't mean to start a holy war here.....aw, that's another post
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For the longest time, the beige box was the height of fashion in the computer world. Everything was the same shade of beige, too. Printers, monitors, cases, keyboards, mice, EVERYTHING. And everything was boxy, too. Rounding the corners on your box was considered daring. Then some bright boy came up with the idea of white boxes. Then the natural corollary, the black box. Then Apple came out with the iMac and suddenly we had six new colors. And we had blobs as well as boxes.
Of course, we have had case-modders from the get go, and some innovative 'concept' designs have been displayed at trade shows, but in the mainstream, the physical design of computers and accessories has been boring.
I would love to be able to choose from a wide style of cases for my computer. Computer case design has been unobtrusive and homogenous up till now to please the major buyers, corporations. Now, with many smaller form-factor motherboards, and more people with some kind of fashion sense buying computers for the home, there will probably be an explosion in case and accessory design.
I'd love to see some nice retro stuff. Cases and accessories that looked like a 1950s wooden stereo, or a brushed aluminum AirStream trailer, or made to look like a sculpture would probably sell well. How about a tiny computer with only USB and FireWire (or maybe BlueTooth or something like it but faster, to do away with cords.) for expansion that comes with matching 'collectable' accessories. Companies could manufacture snap on covers: Star Wars or LoTR for us geeks, sports memorablia for the average joe, unicorns and big eyed ragamuffins for the ladies, and so forth.
The day of the beige box is hopefully done. I for one welcome our new, more stylish computers & accessories.
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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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Argh. Too many stupid jokes are the only things getting moderated up at the moment.
I'm so pleased to have heard about this - I've been after this sort of thing for a long time now: case mods etc. that have elegant or classical styling instead of the usual "how many lights can I stick on it" crap.
I'm quite sick of beige boxes, and ugly designs - why can't more companies go for something like this? How about some nice brushed steel keyboards and mice? How about a nice (fake) tortoiseshell keyboard and mouse combo?
Apple turns out a ine array of beautiful elegant designs, but all the PC accessories just look like they escaped from the set of a cheap sci fi film set.
About bloody time, that's all I have to say.
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Building something, anything, out of wood is a very natural way of doing it. There are a number of species on this planet that cut down trees to build structures, humans are not the only ones.
Wood feels nice, sounds nice, and looks nice. It is renewable. And you're forgetting WHERE this tree is cut down, is it in an ancient forest with 300-year old trees, or in a homegrown backyard lot?
"I'm nature-loving."
Then why not do it the natural way?
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I'm an amateur hobbyist woodworker -- it's nice to build things you can hold -- so I love seeing stuff like this, and hope one day I'll be good enough to make them, too.
The funny thing is how many people seem to be in my position. When reading newsgroups like rec.woodworking, I came across a lot of tech-types that have either turned to woodworking as a hobby in their spare time, or in their laid-off time.
Anybody else on this board that have moved toward woodworking?
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Which is not all that bad considering how nice they look - here's a german shop selling them for those that are finding the site slashdotted.
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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!
For some reason remembering seeing the Apple I in the Smithsonian was the first thing I thought of when i thought of a wooden computer case. Have a look Smithsonian Apple I
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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! ;-)
Where do I store my logs?
Not by 9am GMT it hadn't.
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Hehehe. I'd find it quite funny. Maybe the case would be called Noerd ? ;-)
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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...