Carved unibody aluminum may well end up being to the gadget design of the late oughts what wood paneling was to the gadget design of the late 70s, so why not ironically set the trend and transform your MacBook into a laptop Mike Brady could be proud of with these laptop skins from Karvt?
You can pick between five different flavors of dead tree flesh: bamboo, cherry, maple, pine and walnut, all avaialble either stained or unstained. They’re backed with 3M adhesive, so just peel off the protective stickers and slap it on.
I think the result is pretty striking, especially for the price of $35. There’s also a laser etched Artist’s Series for $50, but I prefer the plain variety. Seem discordant to you? Let’s not forget that Apple made computers out of wood themselves, once upon a time.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
