This was actually one of the key motivations behind starting my tablet case business (www.dodocase.com). I think there are many physical objects in life that cr

This was actually one of the key motivations behind starting my tablet case business (www.dodocase.com). I think there are many physical objects in life that create an emotional experience that can't easily be explained, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. I am also a surfer and I found this explanation of riding a hollow wooden surfboard a beautiful description of just this type of experience. "You obviously can’t actually feel the wood when it’s wrapped in a layer of glass & resin. But beyond the tactile, there’s definitely an emotional aspect to paddling, sitting, and standing on a piece of wood in the water. You ever driven a Ford truck from the 50′s? Slept on the dirt in wool blankets? Cleaned a big fish? Sipped 40-year old Scotch? Chopped down a tree with an axe? Like surfing a wood board, all of those kinds of things awaken something inside of us that the plasticine era has covered up in layers of shiny dross." Benny http://www.hollowsurfboards.com/Q&A.htm http://www.hollowsurfboards.com/Q&A.htm