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 Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 14:41 Post subject: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck ... for a wooden Apple |
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keyboard? 
| Quote: | Independent manufacturers can find it difficult enough to get their products to market without adding unusual construction techniques into the mix — just ask ADzero about the struggles they've had with their bamboo smartphone. But Orée, a hardware startup based in the south of France, is a little further along the line.
The company has been operating a pop-up store in Tokyo this week to promote its first product, the €150 ($193) Orée Board. It's a wireless, wooden keyboard carved from a single block of walnut or maple with customizable laser etchings. By demonstrating the product in a public setting, Orée hopes to sell customers on its unique properties.
"We sell directly online in most places," says Orée's Yasunobu Takata, "but we are a hardware manufacturer, and especially for this kind of product, people really would like to see it and touch it and try out how it really feels." Beyond that, customers are able to select the specific wood grain of their keyboard, and choose how they want it engraved; options include OS key layout, a choice of fonts, and decorative illustrations.
The keyboard itself is solidly built, surprisingly light, and feels great to type on for anyone used to something like Apple's typical chiclet-style setup — key layout, spacing, and throw are all reminiscent of what you'd find on a MacBook. But Takata is quick to distance the Orée Board from Apple's own products.
"Apple's design is really great and cool, but it's cool," he says. "It's not really warm. We would like to make objects that carry empathy and warmth as we use them." Gesturing to his own personal Orée Board, Takata continues: "I have been using this piece for the past four months, and as I use it I realise that this keyboard actually grows. The color changes as I use it because of the oil from my fingers, but this doesn't really look dirty — it really grows."
Orée plans to launch "a couple more" products around September; the company wouldn't be drawn on what those might be, but Takata says it "won't be a mouse," and designer Franck Fontana told me he wants to work with "raw materials, like leather or stone." While the Tokyo workshop will close this Sunday, Orée hopes to return in October, along with similar pop-up projects in New York, Berlin, and Paris this year. |
http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/5/4494966/oree-wooden-keyboard-gets-pop-up-tokyo-workshop
http://oreedesign.com/products/oree-board-maple
Just for €150.00 + shipping.
To be honest, the thing really looks beautiful, and if it wasn't that expensive, I might consider one of the looks alone.
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 14:45 Post subject: |
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Does seem exorbitantly costly... though yeah, I have to agree it's pretty damned attractive. I wouldn't use it as I prefer clicky full-size keys and not the softly-softly laptop/Apple keys, but still; very attractive indeed.
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 14:51 Post subject: |
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Very pretty.
150eu does not seem that bad to be honest, given what it is.
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Saner is not being serious. Unless its the subject of Santa!
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 14:58 Post subject: |
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That's some serious craftmanship. Although it looks like they just glued the wooden keys on a real Apple keyboard 
See the white underneath? 
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I see it's just plywood and laser cut. Very nicely done nevertheless.
But sweat from fingers will destroy it quickly. Also it will get terrible dents from fingernails etc.
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 15:05 Post subject: |
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| Werelds wrote: | | See the white underneath? |
It's the rubber for the membrane. |
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 15:06 Post subject: |
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| KillerCrocker wrote: | | I see it's just plywood |
What plywood? Each board is made of a single maple or walnut tree piece of wood. |
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 15:08 Post subject: |
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Look at the keys. You can see layers.
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 15:12 Post subject: |
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Hmmz the screenshots in the website of the various fonts and closeups of the keys do not look like plywood:
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 15:13 Post subject: |
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Yeah, because there's no chance those are touched up, is there
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 15:34 Post subject: |
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The keys are from the same tree piece to preserve the natural lines from the back piece and the keys. I see this as logical, and it can be seen in the photos.
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 15:45 Post subject: |
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On most photos -yes.
but on the photo Werelds posted, the keys have unnatural layers
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 15:51 Post subject: |
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On the photo I posted the keys are most certainly plywood. Those aren't age rings
In fact, on all the photos in the Verge's article it's plywood for the keys; the encasing does seem to be a solid block though.
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 15:58 Post subject: |
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From verge. Either elaborate painting or ...  |
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 16:01 Post subject: |
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Oh come on you damn troll, you're picking images from above
2 more from the Verge. Clearly plywood. You do know what plywood is right?
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 16:13 Post subject: |
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Dude I was a carpenter for 2 years.
Sabina is right
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Still, nice stuff, but I would have this on a mantelpiece, not for usage 
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
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Yeah, sometimes I smoke in front of my computer. There would be a chance of me setting the damn keyboard on fire if I'd have that one.
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 16:57 Post subject: |
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I understand. I am just saying there is disparity with other shots.
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| Posted: Sat, 6th Jul 2013 17:00 Post subject: |
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| LeoNatan wrote: | | I understand. I am just saying there is disparity with other shots. |
Yeah, there is. It could either be a bit of airbrushing or could just be something simple like a change of idea - going from plywood to solid keys in the final, or solid keys initially to plywood in the final.
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