Real Wood iPod

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!"

Comments

dremel

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:dremel

[lowtek77]

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.

Re:dremel

[vikks]

...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?

Re:The real question

[rylin]

No.

Re:Wood Ipod (guilt)

[axonal]

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

Lotsa Pictures

[nmb3000]

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.

Re:Wood Ipod (guilt)

[onion2k]

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.

Too much time....

[Eminence]

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

I call BS

[green pizza]

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.

Re:Wood Ipod (guilt)

[KeensMustard]

That's why I like plastic.

Because it's made from oil?

Re:Wood Ipod (guilt)

[patio11]

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.

Re:Steve Jobs iPod Collection

[SilentChris]

"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.

opinions

[chasingporsches]

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.