2008-04-29

Do we really need more disposable electronics?

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I just came across this post on Wired about the $10 cellphone.  In this day and age you would think that companies would be finding ways to make the products they create either: a. Last longer in order to prevent them being dumped into over crowded landfills. b. Bio-degradable or recyclable so that they can be re-used. The concept of a $10 cellphone means that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of these plastic, metal, acid, cadmium, and silicon mini toxic bombs are going to be thrown into garbage bins and ultimately end up in landfills or polluting drinking water.  Heaven forbid they... Read more »