wood

Peripherals

Wooden Automata iPhone Dock Cranks From Vertical To Horizontal

7:00AM Jason Chen | This Automata iPhone Dock by Murtaza Lakdawala is clever and useful, a combination rarely found in DIY projects. All you have to do is crank and the dock turns from vertical to horizontal. More »
Toys

DIY Bathtub Steam Boat Is Authentic With Putt-Putt Sounds

11:30AM Rosa Golijan | Forget remote controlled and Mr T rubber duckies. Actually, forget rubber ducks altogether. What I want is some bubble bath and this DIY bathtub steam boat. Yes, it’s a real, functional, bathtub-sized steamboat. And yes, it’s complete with putt-putt sounds. More »
Phones

Docomo Teases World To Pun Their “Touch Wood” Prototype

1:40AM Mark Wilson | Aside from a name that clearly doesn’t mean in Japanese what it does in English, Docomo’s Touch Wood phones deserve a bit of attention. More »
Vehicles

Wood-Framed Renovo Bicycle Reminds Us Of Simpler Times

12:00PM Don Nguyen | With all the technological advances, it’s easy to forget how devilishly beautiful bikes are. Designer Sean Denham and Renovo Bikes hope to change that perception with their new wooden frames. More »
Design

Laird Hamilton: Science And The Surf Board

6:00AM Wilson Rothman | Laird Hamilton is as tech savvy as surfers get. Here he looks at the shapes and materials that make boards great—what’s changed over the years, and what hasn’t: More »
Science

Wood Is The New Bone

10:53PM Mark Wilson | Don’t let the hippies hear that wood may make a better artificial bone than titanium. We’ll never live it down. More »
Design

Dear Diary, I Saw A Wooden Workstation Today, I Think I’m In Love

11:20PM Sean Fallon | 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. More »
Design

Wooden Large Hadron Collider Carries Minimal Risk of World-Ending Black Holes

1:40AM John Herrman | The real Large Hadron Collider has been a bit of a disappointment to date, so an impatient Russian artist decided to make his own. Out of wood. More »
Gadgets

The Amazon Kindling Holds 120 Books Words

4:20AM Mark Wilson | I’d never propose that book burning is OK. But what if we’re talking ebooks? More »
Design

‘Apple Netbook’ Student Project Is a Pencil-Drawn Beauty

3:35PM Dan Nosowitz | This little project has been making the rounds as the “new Apple netbook,” which, unfortunately, is way off. But the truth is pretty cool anyway: It’s a beautiful pencil-drawn, wooden model. More »