Apple’s iPod is gadget, a thing about being hip and cool. But designer Josh D begs to disagree. Showing his nature loving side, he redesigned his iPod mini with a cedar wood case, brass screws and plates. With the iPod mini he redesigned, he shows that you can give trees a handshake while listening to the tunes you go crazy for.

This iPod mini is something beyond retro. What he did was recycled his iPod mini, and completely changed its case to give it a greener appeal. Josh D has created other wooden cases for iPod. But this time, he went a little beyond that. His current iPod mini features wooden clickwheel and wooden iPod dock apart form its wooden cases.

This was a mini project Josh did to transform his somewhat outdated gadget into a natural and woodsy design. With his creativity and little help from his Dremel tools, he was able to use Australian Red Cedar for the case and Camphor Laurel for the clickwheel. As there are already iPods covered with wooden case, the wooden clickwheel is what makes his iPod different from the rest. The circular wooden piece was shaved down to a few millimeters thick to let the iPod’s sensor properly pick up the signal. . According to him, the wooden clickwheel works as good as the original plastic one. No glue at all was used in attaching its wooden parts. All of its parts are put together using brass screws both on top and bottom while its clickwheel is attached to the sensor by a double-sided tape.

To complete the natural aura, a recovered iTrip module in Light Red Cedar and iPod mini dock made from Camphor Laurel come with the iPod mini.

If you think about it, this redesigned iPod gives you the feeling of hugging a tree, aside from the fact that it fits in the palm of your hand. All in all, it is a beautifully finished recreation of Apple’s iPod mini which can probably outlast the plastic counterparts available in the market.

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