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Wood has been around long before us human even existed. It’s a consistent material and no wonder it’s being used more and more in trendy products. We picked out 10 of the greatest wooden gadgets for you, to prove that wood is here to stay!

  Tangent Quattro 
With the Tangent Quattro you have the option to listen to Pop music from the US, Flamenco from Spain or Reggae from Jamaica. The Tangent Quattro is capable of accessing over more than 5,500 Internet radio stations even with you PC turned off. The only thing you need is a broadband WiFi connection. The built-in show shows the names of the internet radio stations, which are sorted on genre or location.

 Maple Phone 
This is the Maple Phone concept designed by Hyun Jin Yoon and Eun Hak Lee. They won the Silver Award at the International Design Excellence Awards 2008. The Maple phone is a slide phone with touch sensitive keys including backlight. As you slide the phone, you’ll see the phone’s LCD show. The phone also has an integrated camera and music player.

MacBook Case 
This plain looking wooden case has been designed for the MacBook and the 15 inch MacBook Pro. It’s a wooden box to carry your laptop in. The tree that died so you can tote around your MacBook in style will surely thank you for it!

Wood on fire! 
This ethanol burning indoor fire”bar” doesn’t even has to strain attention, it just instantly becomes the centerpiece of its environment. The first glance doesn’t present more than a imposing 200cm wide luxury wood board. But with just a touch, a lifting lid unleashes a decent fiery which visual conciseness gets enhanced by the mirror finished stainless steel tray. They control and house the steadily blazing flames.

A car made of wood 
We’re not sure what sort of beneficial impact one would get from making a supercar out of wood composites, but if there’s one, student Joe Harmon, the designer of the Splinter supercar, will find out. The Splinter will be a 600-hp, 2,500-pound car with wood used for the chassis, body, and parts of the suspension and wheels.

 Plywood Headphone by David Burel 
These distinctive headphones are as elegant as they are simplistic. Dissatisfied with wood used as a marketing device for environmentalists, David Burel made sure his phones made wood an integral feature of the design. The “wood arch” is made from Finnish birch plywood and uses the same molding technique used by furniture and skateboard designers. The resulting arch has a width of 1.2mm, so it’s lightweight and flexible, while providing the precise, resonant sound that only wood can produce.

 Phenix Manticore 
Phenix Manticore is the top model of Ohenix’s ultra-luxurious series, and can even play at a live concert level. It has over 125 dB dynamic range, and whopping 100 dB efficiency. Every Phenix Manticore is unique, and built exclusively for the actual owner, which means it can be customized at your desire!

Hoerboard mixtable! 
Hoerboard is designed to make all your turntables and mixers fit perfectly into a fantastic looking workstation. One of the nicest things is that all electricity lines are invisibly integrated in the Hoerboard. The Hoerboard is not only available in Bamboo, but also in white, black and olive. You can also pick the lacquer! Matt, Medium Glossy and Glossy.

JANO bike: The evolution evolves! 
Jano, a bicycle built for lively and spirited biking, for fitness or simply for the daily ride to the office. You probably reckon why a wooden bicycle? Because it’s light, excellent looking, durable and last but not least it’s expensive. One last fact for the ones who are really interested: did you know that wood is up to 10 times stiffer than fiberglass and nearly 6 times stiffer than a kevlar/epoxy composite? What are you waiting for!

 It’s a pod pod world after all! 
OfficePod is a breakthrough technology that is motivating, productive, environmentally friendly and just like the iPod, the OfficePod is uber mobile and trendy! The thought is, to be able to work in your own kingdom while spontaneously being work-driven and dedicated. Smart working, as how they call it in modern terminologies, is that one revolutionary thing that will meet our incredibly high demands both in the office and in personal life!