Dear Diary, I Saw A Wooden Workstation Today, I Think I’m In Love
Marlies Romberg’s Dear Diary 1.0 Workstation takes the wooden keyboards and PCs we are used to seeing and integrates them into a completely wooden workstation.
“Personally, I am fascinated by how the world is changing into a digital world. To me it seems that; the digital world is personal but not private at all. For example, when I Google to find information about a friend, I will most likely find information about his life, his pets, his company and maybe a review on a digital camera that he has recently written. Notice that the digital verb ‘Googling’ has recently got the status of a real verb in the Netherlands. Just another example how the two worlds become one.” Dear diary 1.0 is thus both the literal and the figurative manifestation of the worlds colliding. A physical reminder that increasingly, the real and the digital are becoming indistinguishable.
It’s deep, but at least I see Romberg’s point—not like this ridiculous Spaceballs lamp. [Marlies Romberg via Moco Loco]
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There's a woodworm joke here somewhere..........I got nothing
Jaimin Patel
If I knew someone who owned this workstation, I'd nail the mouse to the desk just for laughs. Lol.
andthepickles
A Thousand trees cried out and were suddenly silenced...(So much for being green...)
SigmundTheSeaMonster
@jewsrock: I wiki'd my girlfriend so hard last night.
TurboTexas
@OMG! Ponies!: Don't let it turn over or it will hit you in the face.
TurboTexas
@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Yup, classic genericide of a trademark. Merriam-Webster added "google" as a verb to their dictionary in 2006.
At this rate, Bing doesn't have to worry if their name can become a common generic word. They can just say "Bing - The better way to google."
Google has been clearly afraid of as far back as 3 years ago: Google Blog - Oct,2006
I'm not sure, but is that a mac? Instead of the control key, it's called the command key? Is that just how it is in the Netherlands with their keyboards, or is that a mac?
zenneth
Nice execution, but that ogee edge would be really uncomfortable against the wrists, and the mouse looks like an afterthought (or the guy owns a Mac Plus). It also tends to look like it should be sold at Unpainted Arizona - that style of table should be stained and finished.
@OMG! Ponies!: Ow! My Brain!
Xeno
Ahh, keyboard built into the desktop! Except for the inability to move it around, its sorta brilliant. Recess it a bit and provide a sliding cover so you could use the space for something else and it would be perfect.
Robusto68
Thank you Sean for the morning wood.
@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: I actually use "wiki". Like "i'll go wiki that." I know that probably has the meaning of writing the article as oppose to searching it but wikipedia has to many sylables.
jewsrock
I'm pretty sure, to 'Google' something is a real verb in the U.S. too. Bing just doesn't sound right (yet).
Then again, I also use the verb 'Wikipedia' which sounds completely wrong in a sentence. "I wikipediad that."
Purple Monkey Dishwasher
Nice setup to feed the termites.
nikaru
booo. laser cut keys? get out the carving tools, man.
I've heard of wrapping everything in one's cubicle with aluminum foil, but replacing everything with wooden replicas? Now that's GENIUS.
I like the Signet, but the computer has got to go. My legs and feet will not fit under there.
@mikeness: It is pretty amazing looking.
NurseDave
Wow, amazing woodwork. I'll stick to my macbook though
@Purple Monkey Dishwasher:
I use that with all sites I use for searching:
I googled that.
I wiki'd that.
I youtubed that.
I dictionary.com'd that.