Tech From Trees: The seven best wooden gadgets

By Nate Lanxon on 28 August 2007, 3:10pm

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Any pyromaniac will tell you that the worst thing about today's ever-glossier technology is that, with the exception of certain companies' laptop batteries, it doesn't burn very well. Companies are becoming greener, with their sugar batteries, their 1W-standby alarm clocks and their biodegradable laptops. But they're missing the point entirely: the best way to be green is to make your products out of trees.

People are using trees for new and more exciting things every day. Plus, think of the added bonuses that a smouldering wooden laptop could bring -- it could keep your hands warm as you start up the chainsaw on a winter's morning, ready to destroy more of Mother Earth's perpendicular perennial assets, for instance.

While we here at Crave don't condone the ruthless destruction of the ailing planet's resources, we do appreciate that making technology out of wood can be very cool. With this in mind, please welcome our inaugural 'Tech From Trees' event. Join us as we cruise through the tech world's most audacious attempts at making things that shouldn't be made out of trees, out of trees.