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

Re:Wood Ipod (guilt)

[axonal]

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

Lotsa Pictures

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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.