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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!"
African wood...
I just checked the pics, and now it looks like an iPoo.
Must be made of wood too. Its very woody slow!
More importantly, the wood enclosure adds a depth and warmth to the music that simply isn't possible with man-made plastics. The resonant frequency of hardwood reduces jitter in the decoding circuit so the result is a higher fidelity experience.
Does it float? It would be very useful companion while swimming ;)
the doc
For once an Apple cease and desist would be a good thing here...
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How long until we can start getting, say... a mahongany powerbook?
A pine iBook sounds appealing
Business Voyeur
Destruction of Rainforests!
Could this open some eyes and increase interest in alternative (Linux, Mac) offerings?
If you don't want crime to pay, let the government run it.
Looks great, but 'carving by hand' does not include the use of a dremel rotary tool.
I wonder how the touchsensitive selection wheel does work... Yes i read the article... (perhaps i missed something?)
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Does it burn?
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i was sceptical but it looks surprisingly good and somewhat retro
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I expect there is a mrket out there for all sorts of wooden covers. Just think of a phone with a wooden cover.
My absolutely favorite were five iPods in a row done by Dale Chihuly in his Macchia glass patterns. Insane !! priceless is more like it.
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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... it looks absolutely great. However, now that its a WOODEN iPod, there is more fuel to burn, so just don't give it to this kid.
Let the commencement BEGINULATE!
There's enough pictures on there that this could easily go down.
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Great, now I need a termite protection plan for my iPod.
...that piece of shit wooden laptop from a while back.
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!
Some softwood types are also sensitive - old-growth redwoods forests and high mountain areas. Forest Service roadbuilding typically costs about 10 times as much as the value of the wood that gets logged using those roads, so it's essentially subsidizing the destruction of old-growth forests; the Clinton administration belatedly got around to banning it in many areas, and the Bush Administration rapidly re-authorized it.
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Excellent. I've been saying for years that I want a cellphone with a woodgrain case and real metal buttons. The more people look at this iPod case mod, the closer my dream comes to being true.
I wooden have done it. Wood you?
First we had to worry about replacing the batteries, and now we have to worry about replacing the wood finish from termite damage.
I wonder if terminix could help 0.o
I guess apple wood isn't hard enough, but it seems like a natural choice for this particular application.
woody ipod is nothing new, I'm not impressed. But if the guy showed a sarge ipod...
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First two informative photos appear real, but then the next two showing the face and underside of the front plate just seem.... computer generated. It doesn't even come close to looking realistic. Sorry. Mod me as you will...
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
you've got wood, haven't you !
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Some people have clearly too much time on their hands. Some of those put it to good use and we call them "artists". :)
Is this environmentally sustainable?
Immediately, as a result of this rather provocative article, there will be a rush of people going to go buy rare wood. I cannot even estimate how many. This article will then permanently remain published, drawing huge crowds of people and serving to forge a constant stream of people buying rare woods.
I've hesitated to say it, but here it is, without any window dressing:
These people and their iPods are killing millions of people and destroying the Earth.
The Earth is simply too small to sustain or ever hope to recover from an onslaught of this nature. Can you imagine how many people will actually build these things? It's staggering to think about isn't it?
Post 9/11, I'd imagined I'd see this article published eventually. It's a sign of the times.
Would have been cooler if it had been done with a better device, like a cowon iaudio x5, or an iriver or creative DAP.
Yeah, but does it run Woody?
w00t, euh, wood. Euh, damn, I'm confused!
You can check out some of this other work here: ProjectRedwood 3.0. I've been following it for a while and he says he has to finish by August so expect big updates.
Don't forget that a lot of tree species *need* the fire to reproduce correctly. So, there is an amount of "clearing land by burning" that is actually sustainable.
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You're not kidding. I am still working with my CNC machinist on a solid granite back for my limited series U2 iPod. The granite reduces the vibrations from the iPods on board digital clock and from any CMOS gate switching during operation. I've seen some online studies that the granite dampens the vibrations and makes the iPods last a LOT longer (besides the obvious quality difference at the ear..). Are you doing any iPod overclocking or extra cooling? Have you thought about replacing your wall receptacle outlets to feed your iPod the cleanest power?
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Im just waiting for technology to increase enough so we can build these things out of plastic... that will be the day. Now dont get me wrong... wood electronics are great... but wouldnt plastic be awesome?
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Of course, a genetically modified tree could grow iPods in place of branches.
Stuff made of wood is not somthing I would want to wear. Duct-tape products are the new...hotness.
I don't see anything more (cough) inventive (cough) than speculating on the market demand for duct-tape products as...
You guessed it,
0) duct-tape iPods
1) duct-tape wallets
2) duct-tape jackets
3) duct-tape pants
4) duct-tape shoes
5) duct-tape condoms (just joking there, ladies (-:)
6) duct-tape hats
7) duct-tape gloves
8) ????
9) pro-fit!
I am the nightmare of nightmares.
Ahaha...
A lot of hardwood you buy at a store is smuggled out of Brasil or some country in Africa. Wood-smuggling gang lords of the Amazonic rain forest are more violent than their recreational drug counterparts (one of them was known to chop his enemies in pieces with a chainsaw... personally)
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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.
dont make their ipods woody, rather make their rooms *curvy* and creamy.
Ewww...am I the only one that finds it ugly looking?
First there was Bonsai Kitten and now this? Its all getting pretty silly I say :)
Carving the front of another iPod from the bones of the starved musicians that died after the massive proliferation of music piracy. Available in bone and regular white!
Will wank off Linus Torvalds for fame.
stuff that matters. i guess this time the matter is wood.
Because I know iWood!
Looks like the original link is just fine, but try the modder's personal home-page... it's been /.'ed.
First I've seen of a 2nd tier /.ing...
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does it run Debian Woody?
*ducks*
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nice, but isn't the long term problem that the wood is likely to crack or split, either just naturally or from impact. he said it already split four times when making it. 2mm thick wood, i'm not sure how tough that "would" (ahem) be. i guess there are ways of treating wood to make it stand up but how reliable it would be to mass produce i don't know... looks nice now though :)
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besides taking more time and wood, was there any other reason why he only made the front wood and not the back? it didn't seem that any hardware was stuck to it.
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The downgrade is complete!
Wow, he killed the ONLY feature that makes the I-Pod better than most MP3 players. Enought with the damn I-Pods.... get an Archos all the features you have to buy expensive attachments for are built in and it can not only view photos but video WITHOUT a hack.
does this new wooden iPod remind anyone else of a nipple? It looks so succulent and seductive, it's begging me to... Err, sorry that was just the hardwood effect on me...
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That truly is amazingly well done. But doesn't it seem like the wood would take to scratching a lot quicker than the usual white surface? My ipod gets put in and out of the dock quite a bit so I think the wood would show a lot more wear and tear.
Still, it is very well done!
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Now we can destroy rainforests just so spoiled brats in the US can look cool with their iPods. Nice going, Steve Jobs.
Show me a picture of it after 6 months of normal use and let's see if it looks as great as the crummy white plastic finish would.
Peculiar, the user keeps scrolling through songs as if it were more fun than listening to music...
If you look at the wood between the lcd screen and the scroll wheel, that thin segment of wood is running across the grain. That is a potential weak point.
Plus, he's using hot glue to hold the iPod components to the wood. Wouldn't the iPod get hot enough during playback and recharging to cause the hot glue to loosen? Yikes!
Tom
I always suspected Apple's smooth, white finish would ring true with those still trapped in the 70's... Maybe the next generation ipods will feature avocado green and harvest gold cases! Kill me now.
There are more people alive right now than have ever lived in the entire history of man kind. We are the ultimate renewable resource.
Seems like I no longer need to read /. as it mostly trails BoingBoing by a day. Jeez... can't they find ORIGINAL articles?!?
Personally, i think the rear chrome panel is the first thing that needs to be dealt with.
While it looks great out of the box, if you so much as breathe on it you scratch the hell out of it..
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Much hotter than the white. Excellent craftsmanship too. Doubt I'd have the patience to do this
That's really neat. Normally I balk at a lot of the madness that is case modding, but this one is pretty impressive. One question I have would be about climate issues. It's no doubt a very VERY snug fit to get it attached to the rest of the iPod hardware, how would expansion due to moisture in the air (or would it even be a factor)?
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
-Hoban Washburn
It would be great to see DIYers make some more cool iPod mods and post them online to share (someone with more time than me could set up a wiki or a blog for this). I would love to see something like a brushed stainless steel casing that would be resistant to scratching, maybe using that same material they use in grocery store checkout scanners (manufactured emerald or something) as a scratch-resistant display cover.
Apples!
You know what?
A wooden iPod should be sold with one of these!
-Rob
Biblical fiscal responsibility
...for someone to rebuild an iPod with vacuum tubes and a bakelite case.
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The Apple I was built in a wooden case.
Why, oh why, didn't I take the Blue Pill?
[indian geek apple fan boy voice]"I am sporting a serious woody right now..."
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A co-worker of mine brought up this point...How does the volume still work since you slide your finger about the center ring to increase/decrease the volume?
Does he have real wood earphones to go with it??
Great. More rainforest destruction for fetishistic, shallow consumers.
We're dead.
this informed me of precious little.
- Is that a woody in your pocket?
- You know what, as a matter of fact, it is!
And remember kids: Never trust a computer you can actually lift.
I'm living in northern Canada and have access to a portable mill. I also have access to limitless pine, spruce, poplar, and birch. My question is about the birch. What is it best suited for? The wood might be free, but the time and saw blades are not. In addition, drying wood takes a lot of time and space. Would products made of birch be worth the time and effort required to produce the lumber?
Willy
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.
and there goes the rain forest...
But at least we're rich. And have lots of THINGS! And STUFF! That's where real happiness comes from.
Right?
Who give a rat's ass who changes their case? Nothing interesting here but some minor modification to the outside of an ipod. Big deal.
Now modding a computer, retro-fitted into the back of your car, that automatically synchronized cool sound-tracks from your desktop computer would be something to post on Slashdot. Not just another mod of a case. Get real people.
I've hand crafted my IPod case out of ivory. And its protective carrying case is made of baby seal skin. I don't know, but something about this combination makes me feel really good inside, and everyone who sees it loves it !!!
now when you get mad at your ipod because it doesn't work.... you can burn it!
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prolly feels like it's in a little casket...
Huh! Now there's a mod - a tiny little casket for a dead iPod. We could sell 'em by the dozens for proper iPod burial.
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
There are many more moddings for portable media players (Apple iPod, Creative Nomad, Diamond Rio and others available.
Wooden Ipod? Look out for a rise in environmentalist ipod muggings. I mean rainforest timber, what was he thinking?
...ipods turn YOU into wood?
bah, I can't believe I just posted one of those.
"whether or not that's true"... take my word for it, it's true;
"it has no bearing on what I said"... you said originally, and I quote, "any wood you buy at the store was almost certainly cut *ages* ago": unless your "ages" are shorter than mine (and it seems that they are, see below), this is wrong, and if you buy hardwood you are most certainly collaborating to the destruction of rainforests here and in Africa, because you are generating demand for those illegal products.
"what I said was almost purely sarcasm"... which part? about *ages*? in this case, you would be partially correct; I did not see the sarcasm.
My point? Don't buy hardwood unless you know for *sure* that it was grown and harvested sustainably.
It's better to be the foot on the boot than the face on the pavement. ~~ tkx Kadin2048
Low tech isn't the paradise... but some high-techs are way worse.
It's better to be the foot on the boot than the face on the pavement. ~~ tkx Kadin2048
Does energy = mass times the speed of light (squared) apply?
All good things...
I just installed the wood case mod to my iPod and now I find that it just feels snappier overall. Good work.
im guessing since the wheel doesnt work with cotton gloves the thing works though some kind of marnetic/electron transfer... and last i checked wood isnt exactly the most conductive material -- oh well he can always sell it for a grand on ebay ^.^
Mike
I heart the RIAA & MPAA, im sure its mutual...
You are the new asshole.
I think I talk for everyone here in the NorthWest when I say "Fuck Dave Chihuly, half blind motherfucker."
I really have had an ass full of him and his glass. Don't we have any other artists up here?
5 years ago I was OK with him. Now I just never want to hear about him ever again.
Web Design Idiot...
Like anyone can even know that