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Wooden Camera

By Aart van Bezooijen - December 22, 2006

in Materials

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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craft

17 years ago

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It looks very nice, where can I buy something like this? :)
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Wzorki

17 years ago

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Wow... a wooden camera that's very creative. I would definitely like to have a camera like that!
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JAN

18 years ago

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wood ! what is the manufacturing of wood ?
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andre gascoigne

18 years ago

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a wooden camera? it wooden work!
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raun

18 years ago

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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.
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Rishi Desai

18 years ago

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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
http://gumpdesign.blogspot.com
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Business for sale

18 years ago

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I agree with you that nothing wrong with a bit of variation in a product!!!
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Woody W.

18 years ago

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more stuff for you woodcarvers: http://www.swedx.se/menu_products.php
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Brian

18 years ago

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Isn't this just kitsch? I'm all for different and new materials but the object language doesn't work out.
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wood

18 years ago

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Wood do you know?
Wood you believe that?
Wood are the chances?
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