Cool Wooden Cell Phone Creations

Wed, Aug 20, 2008

Russian-made wooden phone
Hand-crafted by Russian carpenter from Apple Tree wood

Since the advent of cell phones we’ve seen the initial cumbersome 1980s design shrink considerably while its technological capacity has increased.

Wooden phone
Ziricote phone by Hulger

These days we want it all, we want the calls, the texts, the music downloads, film clips and a five billion pixel camera… practically. We really are a technologically demanding bunch, and that’s OK, because, after all, this is the 21st century. But now it seems our tastes are becoming more simplified again, as these wooden mobile creations would suggest.

Wooden phone red lights
Maple wood phone designed by Hyun Jin Yoon and Eun Hak Lee

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Linda McCormick - who has written 162 posts on Environmental Graffiti.

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