Unlike most digital cameras, the prototype Olympus 3D Wooden Camera has a wooden body (which is the 3D part, since most digital cameras are also flat). The camera is made of a single piece of molded Japanese cypress, the wood used to build Shinto temples. Does this broaden awareness of the need for disposable gadgets to be made of renewable resources, or does it show disrespect for a precious material by making it into something for which there is no realistic reuse once it becomes obsolete? When are we going to see a merger of Moore's Law with green thinking? Post yay or nay in comments.
Olympus 3D Wooden Camera [via Luxist]
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From an aesthetic angle I'd say yay- it looks lovely. But I don't know enough about the ecological implications of using wood in this way to judge it from that angle... xx