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The World's First Bamboo Notebook
Environmentally-friendly products are
all the rage these days but Asus is taking the whole ‘green’ drive to a new
level with plans for a bamboo notebook.
The company has just released a preview of what its new bamboo-clad laptop, the EcoBook, will look like when
it ships next year. There are those that think building a notebook from wood is
a risk in itself and I’m not sure how the pandas will feel when they can’t
find some chow, but the EcoBook is certainly a looker.
The bamboo casing is matched by
bamboo wrist-rests on the inside. Asus came up with some of the first
leather-clad notebooks so it knows a thing or two about making non-standard
machines. Others have even been experimenting with suede.
There is no news yet on specs for the EcoBook but then a year to launch is a long
time in the technology business and anything announced today would likely be old
hat by then. More photos here.
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