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Bloom Laptop Designed For Easy Disassembly
Zothecula writes "It's a given that we will one day be discarding our present laptop computers. It's also a given that e-waste is currently a huge problem, that looks like it's only going to get worse. While most of the materials in a laptop can be recycled, all of those pieces of glass, metal, plastic and circuitry are stuck together pretty tight, and require a lot of time and effort to separate. What is needed are laptops that are designed to be taken apart, for easy recycling – that's why a group of graduate students from Stanford University made one."
It's an Auto*desk advertisement and more Ivy League B.S.
If a team at a State College did this, then it would be an Auto*Desk advert that would be discarded. But because it's an unworkable idea from STANFORD it deserves consideration?
-Thin, light and modular assembly are conflicting demands in portable computers.
-Multi-purpose, generally powerful portable computers with modular assembly would resemble a 10 year old laptop.
http://www.maxineudall.com/2010/02/should-economists-be-sued-for-malpractice.html