Over the years a lot of efforts are being put in to minimize the environmental impacts of electronic waste. Lately a team of engineers at Hokuto System have developed an idea which will facilitate the use of recycled cell phone parts alongside circuit boards to make pocket-sized PCs.
These PCs will be available in Japan by the end of the year and will be known as DVIEW. They will not be available to consumers. Instead, they will be used in shops as a self-contained point-of-sale display. As a backdrop it will help to understand how the fate of retired cell phones differs from that of retired PCs. Approximately 70% of retired collected cell phones are refurbished and resold. The remaining units are recycled or discarded, whereas only a small percentage of PCs are ever used again.
Via: Gizmodo
