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Real Wood iPod

Posted by timothy on from the other-people's-hobbies dept.

An anonymous reader submits "People have tried modding their iPods using wood before, but it took the genius of ZapWizard to create the Real Wood iPod. Hand carved from a solid piece of African hardwood to a thickness of just 2mm, the end result has to be seen to be believed. Wood grain is the new Apple White!"

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  1. dremel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Looks great, but 'carving by hand' does not include the use of a dremel rotary tool.

    1. Re:dremel by lowtek77 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      hmmm I don't see the difference between using an ole whittlin' knife and guiding a dremel by hand. Unless you like to carve with a finger?--Must not have stubby hands like myself.

    2. Re:dremel by vikks · · Score: 3, Insightful

      ...but 'carving by hand' does not include the use of a dremel rotary tool.

      Which leaves us with only nails available for carving by hand. "By knife" is not by hand as well, right?

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  2. Re:The real question by rylin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No.

  3. Wood Ipod (guilt) by putko · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It looks great. But isn't it bad to do this? Is this stuff sustainably harvested?

    I don't mean to sound like an eco-idiot here. Just when I hear the word "hardwood", I think of deforestation, erosion, and general guilt. There's a reason why the redwood trees are almost entirely gone: we converted them into money.

    That's why I like plastic.

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    1. Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) by axonal · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Plastic isn't any better, its made using oil.

    2. Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) by onion2k · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Wood is a lot easy to sustain than plastic. You can plant new trees and harvest them in 20 - 100 years. What's more, chopping down trees and planting new ones is actually better for the environment than simply leaving the trees there. As a tree grows it generates more oxygen and takes up more CO2 than an old tree.

      Plastic, which comes from oil, takes a bit longer. Recycled plastic is a possibility, but that doesn't generate new oxygen or decrease CO2 levels. It still takes energy to do the recycling process.

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    3. Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) by KeensMustard · · Score: 3, Insightful
      That's why I like plastic.


      Because it's made from oil?

    4. Re:Wood Ipod (guilt) by patio11 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      OK, basic conservation of energy: unless you're feeding the process with juice from a nuclear plant or some other semi-renewable energy source you're just transferring the energy expenditure from the non-rewewable fossil fuel you used to make the plastic to the non-renewable fossil fuel you used to provide the energy to make the oil to make the plastic. Except you lose efficiency on the intermediate steps.

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  4. Lotsa Pictures by nmb3000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's enough pictures on there that this could easily go down.

    Here's a Coral Cache of it to help ease some of the disappearing server Slashdot magic.

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  5. Touchpad? by teknokracy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Can someone tell me how he got the touch wheel part to be sensitive? I was under the impression that you needed a bare finger or at least something electrostatic-ey to be able to use the scroll function... the buttons i see working, but the scroll is NEEDED to use the iPod!

  6. Too much time.... by Eminence · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some people have clearly too much time on their hands. Some of those put it to good use and we call them "artists". :)

  7. I call BS by green+pizza · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I call BS until someone posts a photo of this wallhanging. Seriously. If it's really that cool, someone would have taken a snapshot with their cameraphone by now.

    It's not like Steve Jobs invented the iPod or the MP3 player concept himself anyway. The Diamond Rio was one of the originals and AFAIK, Apple outsourced the iPod development to a freelance EE.

  8. Re:Steve Jobs iPod Collection by SilentChris · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "This one would seemingly fit in but looks to be executed to lower quality than those in the display."

    Low quality? This mod is phenominal. If you had a team of designers and millions of dollars, you could have what Steve Jobs supposedly has. The rest of us will admire what one guy has done.

  9. opinions by chasingporsches · · Score: 2, Insightful

    since posting this on /. just begs for opinions, here's my critical opinion of this clever, creative work: the wood with gloss looks very nice. the snaps on the back and smoothness of the finish makes it look very classy. however, the click wheel and button look VERY cheesy, too rounded. if it wereless glossy and rounded, and probably with engraved control labels, it would be much more professional and easy on the eyes. the screen was not cut out professionally at all. you did such an excellent job on the rest, why skimp on the screen?! the cutout is wavy, not smooth, and it looks very last-minute. but all in all, great stuff. and i like the black dock.