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Creative Recycling: Dumpster Diving

Posted by michael on from the finders-keepers dept.

gnewton writes "One angle of Open Source software that perhaps has not been emphasised enough is how the lower cost of software and operating systems as compared to proprietary/commercial solutions can allow for greater creativity and actually open up markets and solutions that were previously unavailable, in the area of Recycling. This article talks about a new startup which recycles old LCDs into cool and fun digital picture frames."

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  1. Dumpster Diving SCO by dolo666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So if I hang out around SCO, when they go bust... what will I find?

    1. Re:Dumpster Diving SCO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      According the Torvalds, you can expect to find lots of used crack pipes.

  2. always on network.. by Karamchand · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..is off again.

  3. Recycling SCO stock certificates ... by burgburgburg · · Score: 1, Funny

    into toilet paper would not be desirable. Everything from SCO is already full of feces.

  4. Interesting... by Mr.+Flibble · · Score: 3, Funny

    A creative use of an LCD I suppose. I would really like to read more about it... However, it appears someone needs to dive their dumpster and recycle their bandwith from the slashdot effect...

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  5. Hot damn! by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 3, Funny
    Frankly I can't see spending $500 for one of these things

    You really start to feel shit when you hear your laptop is worth more when broken instead of working. :(

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  6. So thats why old technology is in the future by t_allardyce · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now when you see all those hundereds of CRTs in old sci-fi shows you'll know whey - some time in 2040 they started recycling 50 year old monitors and using them in space ships.

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  7. he's right, this nothing new.... by milktoastman · · Score: 5, Funny
    ever since the first small sized high speed electric motors with imbalanced rotors were picked up from the "rejects" pile at the manufacturing plant and turned into "personal massagers," we've had this kind of novel use of obsolete technology.

    Wow...what I just wrote isn't funny...should I delete it...Oh, go on and "troll mod" me for this misfire. I don't care.

  8. Fun? by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 3, Funny

    recycles old LCDs into cool and fun digital picture frames

    Aha! A shill! No one uses the term "fun" to describe things like picture frames unless that person is in marketing. Admit it...you work for the company. Either that, or...

    "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."