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Go Wood! The Xbein Table by Florian Kallus

This piece of futuristic contemporary godliness has got us both scratching our heads and collectively drooling altogether. Is it practical? Is it safe? We're pretty unsure ourselves, but introducing w...

SPINACZ Wooden Clamp USB Drive

In terms of favourite common everyday objects, the wooden clamp is high on our list of classic useful items. Combine it with a 1GB flash drive and you have an easy store storage solution, similar to o...

Wood and Voice: New Clocks Try Different Things

We all needs clocks. Clocks have existed for a long time and the basic technology hasn't changed that much. Sure, there are new clocks that use funky elements, like the Philips Wake-Up Light, but most...

Final Frame: Wooden Wall-E

Eeeeee-vuh~ Wall-E Spotted in LA! from Blink on Vimeo....

DIY Wood Flash Drive: Make You Own Great Looking Cheap Wooden USB Drive

USB flash drives almost all look the same. Unless you tinker with them, or try to hide them inside a pink eraser, it's hard to find them in something else but a nondescript plastic enclosure. It's pos...

Cut Off Wood Electronic Products Concepts

Just a concept, but an idea we really like because of the reproducible DIY factor and the unfinished aesthetic. Polish design group gogo's "cut off products” are just what they seem: speakers and cl...

MSI Woodwind: The Computer to Match Your Retro Basement

It's not that we think people are actually trying to match their wood panelled dated basements with their laptops. No sir. What is clear though is that the retro vibe can be a good one when it comes ...

Green Ideas Ply Laptop Case: Great New Use Of Sustainable Materials

Amazingly, this case is made out plywood and designed by freelance designer Brian Kelly from Philadelphia. He has created this retro looking laptop case by putting together two panels of plywood. He m...

Roundup: Top 5 Wooden Gadgets Sustainable and Fashionable

One of our favorite sustainable materials is wood. It's nice to touch, it's natural and it smells nice, way better than plastic. That being said, we just wish that more gadgets incorporated sustainabl...

Unique, Self-Made, Wall-Mounting Twin Hideaway Desks

To be honest, I never was into the whole wall-mounted fold-down desk thing. I know it saves space, but I just don't fall for the, "Nobody will know what it is when you fold the panel up" thing. Just l...

Wooden Desktop Accessories: A Sustainable Way To Decorate Your Desk

Ideaco & Muku is a Japanese company which has come up with a beautiful and sustainable way of decorating your desk. The wooden desktop accessories are made in Vietnam from German beech wood. Wood is a...

WoodStation: Wood, Clock and Weather Station

At first glance, the WoodStation just looks like an ordinary block of walnut or maple. However, its internal motion sensor makes the wood light up from within, displaying the time, date, outside tempe...

The Miyabi wooden surveillance camera

While the Security Camera mirror is pretty much begging for attention, the Miyabi surveillance camera does the exact opposite. Coming from Japenes company Const-Net, this wooden surveillance camera bl...

One Man's Trash is Another Man's Luxury Pendant Lamp

If you can't buy expensive recycled light fixtures made from reclaimed wood and plastic, the next best thing is to look like you did, right? The designer of this lamp, the "Pendant Light," saw a plast...

Stiletto Stand: Not For Your Shoes, Ladies

Technology and fashion come together every once in a while to inspire the other to make something great. That magic brought us the iPod-holding belt buckle. And now, inspired by the ladies' footwear o...

Wooden Animal USB Flash Drive

If getting a wooden USB flash drive isn't enough, you can now purchase wooden animal USB drives. Marubeni InfoTech, the same company behind the wooden USB dirve, has launched these cute little 1GB dri...

Wooden Earphones

We enjoy technological items and gadgets made out of wood. The latest are these pair of earphones from Radius. Their new SP-WMF11E small ebony speaker is a nice little pocket speaker. They have also r...

Wood USB Flash Drive

With all the wooden items going around, it was just a matter of time before someone made a USB flash drive out of wood. This USB drive is made out of cedar wood. ...

Jupiter Accelerometer Mouse: It's Made out of Wood

Mice are usually made out of some form of plastic. The Jupiter Mouse uses wood instead. That alone makes it an interesting computer accessory. The Jupiter Mouse is a sphere of wood that's been fashion...

Wood LED Clock

The Wood LED Clock designed by Kouji Iwasaki takes the wood theme even further. We have seen wood used in similar fashion, but never like this. Wood was used as a case with the Furni Knox alarm clock....