This is not your father's ze4800mobile

Wood paneling, it's not just for the Elk's Club walls anymore! If Tom Tarnowski has his way, a thin veneer of wood might make its way onto your next laptop computer.

"The computer industry today is where the car industry was 50 or 60 years ago," said Tarnowski, global marketing manager for Inclosia Solutions. "Motor cars of the time had become reliable and affordable but they had no individual style. Like Henry Ford said at the time, 'Our vehicles come in any color you want, as long as it's black. And any material you want, as long as it's steel. And with any number of tires you want, as long as that number is between three and seven.'

"Here at Inclosia, we're moving the laptop forward from age of the Model-T to the age of the wood-paneled, mint-green Buick station wagons of 1973."

The new wood-paneled computer will get 22 megabytes to the gallon comes standard with bucket seats and an 8-track player.