Olympus to bring out cameras with wooden casings Digital Cameras / Olympus Posted by zmcnulty on Sep 25, 2006 - 07:11 PM There's some new threeeeeeeeeeeee-dimensional wood molding technology from Olympus that takes Japanese Cyprus wood and compresses it so it's harder than industrial plastic. Add a nice finish and you get wood that's moldable for manufacturing yet hard enough to be used as casing for standard consumer electronics. Obviously Olympus's immediate plans include using the new technology on their digital cameras. Olympus has an English press release with more details here: http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/news/2006b/nr060925woode.cfm?ote=1&nr=1 [1] wood This article is from TechJapan   http://www.techjapan.com/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.techjapan.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1355 Links in this article   [1] http://www.olympus.co.jp/en/news/2006b/nr060925woode.cfm?ote=1&nr=1