Natural materials in consumer electronics

Skills materials and processes
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I’ve got this ‘thing’ about ‘classic furniture materials’ (leather, wood, fabric, brass etc) being used in consumer electronics. Particularly as computers will begin to move into people’s living rooms.

So far I haven’t seen many so I was hoping you guys could help me collate some examples.

I’m thinking of things like:
vertu’s leather phones http://www.vertu.com/

wood laminated laptops.

Genus DAB radio
http://www.genusdigital.com/TypeR.htm

my own design:
http://www.designerjam.com/iomega.html

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You really need to check out Inclosia Solutions. They do cool in-mold materials like leather, wood, etc. for the consumer electronics market…

Hope this helps…

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Look at high end audio magazines (The Absolute Sound, Stereophile, etc.). Awesome designs, occasionally interesting use of materials and finishes.

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olympus wooden camera - compression moulding for wood!!

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I realize that Olympus has a proprtietary process for this, but does anyone know of a manfacturer that might be able to do something similar?

I’ve been looking into compression molded wood, but everything involves laminating veneers with phenolic resins, etc.

Thanks