Touch Wood uses a body made of surplus wood

Here’s a mobile phone that gives you that closer-to-nature feel. The Touch Wood phone by NTT DoCoMo was recently unveiled at the CTIA Wireless 2010. Now don’t go thinking that these phones resulted in a massive deforestation. They have a body made out of surplus wood obtained from trees cut during forest thinning processes. This apparently helps maintain healthy forests. Using a cypress wood body, the phone is available in its natural wood finish without any artificial colors. For those who choose to confirm to black plastic bodies, this phone isn’t meant for you. It’ll probably give your colleagues the impression of you trying to communicate using a block of wood.

But the green factor stops here. Its body may appeal to nature lovers, but its heart isn’t green at all! Maybe integrated solar cells would help turn this phone into the eco-friendly device that it looks like. Helping forests flourish seems to be a great idea, but saving energy is the need of the hour too!
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