Grass Covered Mouse: Little Too Eco-friendly Mouse Design

Japanese artist Hanaoka is a big fan of covering everything in grass. Cars, business card holders, cufflinks, ashtrays, compact mirrors…you name it. He even blankets computer peripherals with the stuff.

Im not exactly what to say about a grass mouse, but I must admit it looks pretty damm cool.

Thanks to my ever-helpful co-worker/translator Takayuki Sakurai, I’m able to glean that Hanaoka has, in the past, made his verdant mouse available for purchase, though we’re not seeing evidence that it’s currently for sale. If you’re liking the grass-on-all-things idea, however, the artist does sell a grass-covered badge for 300 yen (about $3.50) and a grass-covered cell phone strap for 700 yen (about $7.50).

Hanaoka donates 50 percent of his proceedings to a nonprofit called Shibafu Sprit, which aims to make Osaka-area schoolyards green (Shibafu is word for grass in Japanese).