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."

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Finally!

[Anonymous Coward]

Computers for the Ahmish.

Finally

[Anonymous Coward]

After years of your computer giving you wood, you can finally give back.

Still...

[detritus`]

Definitely not the case and/or setup for those overclockers out there :) especially with heat output getting real close to 100W...

Re:Still...

[sjlumme]

Over here, we had the "silverware computer" running a webserver for a while. It was a standard AMD box assembled out of mostly dumpster-dived components, except instead of giving it a proper case, they stuck it in a wooden kitchen drawer. It served webpages just fine as long as nobody closed the drawer all the way, which would cause the AMD to overheat.

About 6 years behind the time.

[blair1q]

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.

Re:You love nature so much that you

[Brandybuck]

Cut down a tree (renewable resource) versus mining bauxite (nonrenewable resource). 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.

Fashion & the Beige Box

[spun]

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.

The only true wooden computer

[Advocadus Diaboli]

is called Abacus. True digital computing at an affordable price.

And there are also analog wooden computers.

Re:You love nature so much that you

[timeOday]

Do you worry about breakfast cereal depleting our precious natural corn resources?

The key of having enough of a renewable resource is getting people to value it in the first place. With the $15 I pay to cut down a Christmas tree, the forest service plants several more. (And that is in fact exactly what they do with the money).

Re:Yes, wood is "nature loving"

[jesdynf]

So come back when you're typing on keyboards assembled from windfall wood and bones of animals that died of natural causes.

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."

Re:You love nature so much that you

[Brandybuck]

Pine, oak, ash, beech, maple, etc., are all "farmed" woods suitable for mice that don't require any rainforests to be stripped. Even apple and cherry wood from old orchards is suitable for small items like these, and would be very cool.

If you want some exotic rainforest hardwoods instead, there's no need to "strip log" them. Selective cutting preserves the ecostructure quite nicely. Clearcutting is a sign of bad government management of resources. It's easy enough to brand "eco-friendly" lumber to make sure you aren't buying mouse made from clearcut timber.

There was a little wooden PC once...

[Anonymous Coward]

It had a wooden case,
a wooden mouse
a wooden keyboard
and a wooden cpu
and it wooden go!