Would you buy a computer made of wood for the price of a used car? Maybe not. But you should be glad they exist.
Computers used to be made out of wood, endlessly customizable, and totally personal. Now they’re all metal rectangles. Can one guy in his LA house help bring the old way back?editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.The computer on Keegan McNamara’s desk is like nothing I’ve ever seen before.
Maybe we don’t need more trillion-dollar companies making gadgets by the tens of thousands for no one in particular. Maybe we need more people in their workshops, carving them one at a time.Pretty and practical After his trip to the Met, McNamara began to seek and see this kind of design everywhere. He started to research the car industry and how it is that mass-produced Camrys and CR-Vs can successfully share the road with the hand-crafted body of a Bugatti or the sumptuous leathery interior of a Pagani Huayra. He grew obsessed with guitar luthiers, who make exquisite instruments in their shops and sell them for far more than a Gibson or a Fender. “And it works! It’s a sustainable lifestyle.
Once he had the right wood, he began to slowly chisel it into shape using only a set of hand tools. Power tools would have been faster, sure, but there was something about the intention and tactility of shaving the wood by hand, a strip at a time, that connected him even closer to the process.
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