Give Your Macbook Style With A Wood Keyboard
Crowdfunding site Kickstarter has introduced some amazing products, allowing them to be rolled out to the masses instead of being stuck in someone’s garage. But is “Wooden Keys for Macbook & Desktop” one of them? Touted as “a wooden keyboard made from rosewood and bamboo, crafted to bring back natural aesthetic and tactile function,” the project looks pretty slick. But the “wooden keys” are nothing more than decals.
Sure, the decals are actually made of rosewood and bamboo, cut to about a half-millimeter thick, but when it comes down to it, they’re still stickers. And at $40 a pop, they’re expensive stickers.
Design firm RAWBKNY is trying to raise $25,000 on Kickstarter to take the product into mass production. And although a few backers have bitten, the project has a long way to go. With 18 days until the Kickstarter deadline, only about $10,000 has been pledged. Some of the awards offered to backers are a little peculiar, too. Those who aren’t willing to shell out $40 for the full set of wooden key decals can pledge just $15 and receive “a small set of keys,” including caps lock, enter and spacebar. Why the hell would anyone want to transform three keys, leaving the rest their traditional hues?
Still, the $25 pledge award is somewhat promising. RAWBKNY will offer a wooden skin made from rosewood or bamboo for the iPhone 4/4S or the iPhone 5, complete with the user’s initials. A “wooden” phone skin sounds a lot better than some “wooden” decals to stick on the keyboard. Can you imagine typing with cruddy hands? Cleaning such a keyboard would be next to impossible.
