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Biodegradable Cell Phones Sprout Into Flowers
Neurowiz writes "Tired of your cell phone and lusting after the new model with all the geek-gadgets? Worried about the effect that throwing away your cell phones may have on the environment? Worry not! 'Researchers at the University of Warwick's Warwick Manufacturing Group, in conjunction with PVAXX Research & Development Ltd, have devised a novel way to recycle discarded mobile telephones - bury them and watch them transform into the flower of your choice.' What's next? Plant your PC/Mac and watch a house grow?"
Plant your PC/Mac and watch a house grow?"
Wouldn't planting your Mac produce an apple tree?
What's next? Plant your PC/Mac and watch a house grow?"
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I can't here you.
My phone is breaking up.
No, not the signal.
Yes, the actual phone. It's biodegradable.
I don't know. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
I need to bury now it so the flower will grow. Bye.
Plant your PC/Mac and watch a house grow?
Plant your mac, grow an apple tree, of course.
Plant your windows PC, grow some blue flowers... of DEATH!
... They turn into fishtanks. Duh.
Just don't get caught with a marijuana-themed phone. ^_^
Right is wrong when left is right.
I buried my Windows PC and it 'sprouted' a pile of shit. I've had been turning that into fertilizer for years. Unfortunately I was sued for copyright infringment -- something about a derivative work.
At the bottom of the
you can get inside easily enough, but have to ask the house for permission so it will open the door to let you back outside.
If its a PC that ran Windows, you don't get any doors or windows - just the holes where they should have been.
If its a PC that ran *nix, you have to unhang/rehang the doors every time you want in or out.
--- Asking inconvenient questions for over 30 years...
Now we know why the flower in the Movie ET was a great significance. It was actually his cell phone.
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?
Where have all the cellphones gone?
Long time text messaging
Where have all the cellphones gone?
Long time to roam
Where have all the cellphones gone?
Gone to flowers every one
When can they hear me now?
When can they hear me now?
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
... Beings that a flower is so much like a cel phone. It usually works better outside, and only within certain regions of the country.
Are we going to be billed every time the thing blooms? Is there a service charge if we want to transplant it to another pot? These are things we need to know.
But God demonstrates his love for us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us - (Romans 5:8)
I'm going to throw away my phone right now into the garbage and buy this one.
So you're telling me that if my cell phone overheats, it's *just the case* that will smell like burning poo?
and now back to the fallout shelter...
If one of these falls into that miniscule percentage that have exploded in people's ears then there might be the additional side-effect of having a big ass daisy growing out of the side of your head...
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So it looks like Grim Fandango was right.
Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.