Wooden Computers?!

It used to be when buying a PC, you could have any colour so long as it’s beige. Now, you can get them in black and silver. But don’t you find that the pile of equipment you end up with still makes your home study or bedroom or living room look like an office or a scrap metal yard, especially once you factor in all the cables and additional bits and pieces? For the must-have accessory of the 21st century, PCs really lack charm and beauty.

So, it was wonderful to come across a collection of intricate wooden computers - yes, wooden! And carved and just a pleasure to gaze upon:

   You can find a range of these beautiful machines at www.ecogeek.org/content/view/62/1/

with links to the workshops and craftsmen who made them. This one, aptly, was made by a Russian master carpenter.

Sitting down to one of these would make me feel like a great pianist sitting down to a Steinway - glorious masterpieces must surely emerge from my fingertips….