Asus Shows Off Bamboo-clad EcoBook Laptop

Now, laptop maker Asus is well known for its willingness to bring all sorts of hi-tech compounds into the manufacture of its notebook computers, but its hasn’t ignored more traditional materials. It’s already released a leather-clad laptop and has now begun touting what it claims is the world’s first bamboo computer.

Called the EcoBook, this concept notebook is clearly pitched at the greener consumer and all those folk who fancy a wind-powered mobile phone charger to pitch on top of their teepees.

Like the leather machine, the EcoBook is built out of all the usual plastic and metal materials - all “environmentally friendly [and] recyclable”, Asus pledged - but equipped with a bamboo veneer.

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