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Posted by Aart van Bezooyen | 22 Dec 2006
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A Wooden Camera might make you think of those educational baby gadgets but this one is a bit more advanced. Olympus just announced their three dimensional compression molding process for wooden materials at the Photokina show.
Accordingly, the processed wooden material has the feel and grain pattern of natural wood and proves to be harder than engineering plastics such as ABS and polycarbonate resins. If this process works out well we might have ourselves an interesting alternative for electronic products casings - nothing wrong with a bit of variation in a product world that is dominated by hard plastics.
via YouTube: Photokina 2006: Olympus wood casing
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Wood do you know?
Wood you believe that?
Wood are the chances?
Isn't this just kitsch? I'm all for different and new materials but the object language doesn't work out.
more stuff for you woodcarvers: http://www.swedx.se/menu_products.php
I agree with you that nothing wrong with a bit of variation in a product!!!
That is wonderful, at least if they can use the quick-grow variety of wood instead of rainforest wood, we can save so much in the form of manufacturing waste and chemicals!
This has a potential to be quite the disruptive change, think of how many items we use that waste plastic, like water bottles, that are never recycled and never biodegrade.
Wood, biodegrades. It is natural. This has some real potential, and for a camera manufacturer, Olympus (if this innovation is for real) has the potential of leaving the camera market and dominating manufacturing processes for all products!
Rishi
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old news. this was covered by engadget over 3 months ago! i like the idea but i wonder how the manufacturers are going to work around expansion and contraction issues that are natural behaviors associated with wood.
a wooden camera? it wooden work!
wood ! what is the manufacturing of wood ?
Wow... a wooden camera that's very creative. I would definitely like to have a camera like that!
It looks very nice, where can I buy something like this? :)