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Title: Eco-friendly wooden keyboard and mouse
Post by: HughStoneIan on July 15, 2012, 22:07
Kind of cool, depending on your viewpoint---a keyboard and mouse made out of bamboo:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/going-green-with-impeccas-hand-carved-bamboo-keyboard-and-mouse/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29 (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/going-green-with-impeccas-hand-carved-bamboo-keyboard-and-mouse/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29)
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Post by: luissantos84 on July 15, 2012, 22:18
thats very nice, reminds me of playing mahjong :D
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Post by: ctsankov on September 12, 2012, 08:52
looks great   ;D
Title: Re: Eco-friendly wooden keyboard and mouse
Post by: vonkara on September 12, 2012, 10:08
Like we need more cut down trees for our sad little over consuming lives. Either we cut trees down or we literally make keyboards out of oil.
Title: Re: Eco-friendly wooden keyboard and mouse
Post by: Anyka on September 12, 2012, 10:28
What really would be eco-friendly :  a keyboard (or anything else elelectronic) that can be repaired when it breaks down (or when I spill my entire glass of apple-juice on it). 
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Post by: Microbius on September 12, 2012, 10:41
looks beautiful, esp. the keyboard
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Post by: Mantis on September 12, 2012, 16:50
What really would be eco-friendly :  a keyboard (or anything else elelectronic) that can be repaired when it breaks down (or when I spill my entire glass of apple-juice BEER on it).

For me anyway!!..
Title: Re: Eco-friendly wooden keyboard and mouse
Post by: leaf on September 12, 2012, 17:30
Like we need more cut down trees for our sad little over consuming lives. Either we cut trees down or we literally make keyboards out of oil.

Bamboo is a grass not a tree.  It can grow 4 feet in a single day, it doesn't need to be replanted when cut down (the roots are kept in tact) and takes 4 years to reach maturity while wood takes 20-100 years.
Title: Re: Eco-friendly wooden keyboard and mouse
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on September 12, 2012, 17:35
Like we need more cut down trees for our sad little over consuming lives. Either we cut trees down or we literally make keyboards out of oil.

Bamboo is a grass not a tree.  It can grow 4 feet in a single day, it doesn't need to be replanted when cut down (the roots are kept in tact) and takes 4 years to reach maturity while wood takes 20-100 years.

And if you aren't really carefull, bamboos will quickly fill your garden. And next door's too.

The wooden keyboard looks horrible anyway, imo.
Title: Re: Eco-friendly wooden keyboard and mouse
Post by: vonkara on September 12, 2012, 17:37
Like we need more cut down trees for our sad little over consuming lives. Either we cut trees down or we literally make keyboards out of oil.

Bamboo is a grass not a tree.  It can grow 4 feet in a single day, it doesn't need to be replanted when cut down (the roots are kept in tact) and takes 4 years to reach maturity while wood takes 20-100 years.

 I just look at the image and thought the idea was absurd. I should read the whole thing.
Title: Re: Eco-friendly wooden keyboard and mouse
Post by: lisafx on September 12, 2012, 17:59
What really would be eco-friendly :  a keyboard (or anything else elelectronic) that can be repaired when it breaks down (or when I spill my entire glass of apple-juice on it).

So true!  Making everything virtually disposable is the most environmentally hostile thing civilization has done.  Aren't landfills pretty much overflowing with old electronics, computers, etc.?
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Post by: gostwyck on September 12, 2012, 19:34
Kuh! All these 'throw away' consumable items nowadays. Keyboards and mice should be carved from 3.5 billion-year-old granite hewn from the mountains of the Scottish highlands for proper sustainability. They'd be good for at least another couple of billion years.

Just knitting my own yoghurt for tomorrow's breakfast while I think about this some more.
Title: Re: Eco-friendly wooden keyboard and mouse
Post by: stockastic on September 12, 2012, 21:14
I love it!

Bamboo is a very renewable resource,  easily disposed of.   Let's hope we see it replacing plastic wherever possible.
Title: Re: Eco-friendly wooden keyboard and mouse
Post by: HughStoneIan on September 13, 2012, 00:41
Joke--

Teacher:  Johnny, why weren't you able to get your homework finished last night?

Johnny: Because my pet panda ate my keyboard and my mouse.