Japanese mobile phone giant Docomo (with the help of the Sharp and Olympus Corporations, and a Japanese reforestation group known as “More Trees”) has developed a mobile phone called the “Touch Wood” built from the excess materials collected during forest thinning. According to Docomo, the use of thinned wood assists in the health of overgrown forests.
The device is water, insect, and mildew resistant, due to a specific three-dimensional compression process created by the Olympus Corporation.
Although there’s no official announcement of when these will be available to the public, the Touch Wood will be shown at ITU Telecom World 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland from October 5 to 9 and CEATEC JAPAN 2009 at Makuhari Messe, Chiba Prefecture, Japan from October 6 to 10.
[via Wireless Watch Japan]
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Reminds of of the Sandbenders computer William Gibson wrote about in Idoru many years ago. His ’sci-fi’ visions continue to look more like reality.
September 28th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I like the design; the logo looks pretty bad.
September 28th, 2009 at 10:46 pm