DoCoMo Shows Off Concept Phone Made from Wood

Japan's NTT DoCoMo says that it has developed a mobile phone prototype made with the surplus wood of trees culled during thinning operations to maintain healthy forests. The prototype was created in collaboration with Sharp, Olympus and "more trees," a reforestation project founded by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and others.

[via Cellular News]

Related concept phones made out of wood:

-- The nautical-aesthetic S-SERIES wooden mobile phone

-- S-series: wood-like concept mobile phone

-- The CulArt concept phone

-- Woood (2007) - Smart Phone Concept

-- The Ziricote (wooden) PHONE. One of a kind by Hulger

-- Gresso's mobile phone made of African Blackwood and Gold

-- Wooden handmade Cellphones from Mozambique

-- Hand-carved wooden phones from Russia

-- Fand-carved wooden "phones" from Helsinki

emily | 8:14 AM | Cell Phone Designs and Concepts |
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