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- tsctsc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+51Someone needs to install Linux on it, so I can make a ***** root joke.
- TheWorm, on 10/12/2007, -10/+37Pshhh, iPhone can do that.
- Klarth, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28...So why even bother commenting?
- Flummoxer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Thanks for explaining what edible meant. Gosh, I always have trouble with that word!
- Jagula, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Odds are the phone will have sprouts shooting out from the sides before it's even put into the Earth!
- Crass22, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Is it comment spam to comment spam a comment that is spam?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I usually like my mobile phones to last :)
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I considered that the sunflower seed probably has a shell.
- cryptoisfun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8But not too grammatical I suppose.
- evilpig, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7So, I drop my phone in the dirt and look for it a day later and I will find a sunflower...
Awesome! - Bean945, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Wait a minute New in London on March 29 2006? I'm there!
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@TNhitokiri
"Wouldn't it start growing, or at least malfunction, if it was exposed to moisture. I can't see this working out too well in humid areas.."
Is that a sunflower growing out or your pocket?
(Edit...Why TF are they modding you down?) - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Chia-phone!
- meatmcguffin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I wonder how many people are trying to think up computing/plant jokes after reading your comment
(I got as far as binary tree and gave up) - laterallateral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Because it'll make you look like a goddamn hippie. ;)
- TNHitokiri, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11Wouldn't it start growing, or at least malfunction, if it was exposed to moisture. I can't see this working out too well in humid areas..
- drummerwill03, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Call me a hippie but I think this is great if it works and doesn't degrade while in normal use. I think it's our responsiblity to do our best to ensure the planet is here for future generations. If this works as well, doesn't cost much more, and basically acts like a normal phone why not use it?
- Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I believe the article says it's only the phone *cover* that is biodegradable.
The phone itself is still just a phone, and doesn't have a lasagna circuitboard, that's another prototype.
Jimzip :D - zachblume, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4That would actually be pretty cool...
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Mobile phones are the least of our problems. Discarded computers contribute really a lot to the growing garbage problem.
Much regulation of all the manufacturing companies is required.
But it is not likely to happen in the fascistic 'corporatocracy' we live in. - thecompkid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can see the mutant sunflowers now...
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2FTA
"A simple solution could be to upgrade less often, creating less waste. "
One of the real crimes against the environment is perpetrated by companies like Sprint.
It happened to me several times that I would go to Sprint to get a replacement battery for a phone that I had for, maybe one year...and they informed me that they 'no longer supported' that model phone, and there were no more batteries available for it.
Thus, I had to spend money buying a whole new phone, (and it had to be a Sprint phone, so I could use it for the rest of my Sprint contract)...and discard the old one, along with all the accessories, like charger, leather case/belt clip, car charger. Al these things were made just a little different, so this sleazy company could sell me new ones. F**king criminals!
I would like to see such past crimes against the environment to be made retroactively illegal, and that the high-paid executives should be made to pay for their crimes, and without being allowed to pass the expenses off onto the customers!
(One can only dream!) - binderskagnaes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Hey, is that sunflower ringing?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Mirror: http://72.14.203.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.24hourmuseum.org.uk%2Fnwh_gfx_en%2FART35325.html&btnG=Search
Sorry for the reply comment abuse. - Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1That's really nifty... but can it take digital photos and play MP3's?
- ROYALWITHCHEESE, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i don't want a growing mobile
- cmadach, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Holy old news Batman. I think this story even predates digg
- Selina23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It starts! This is some some Battlestar Galactica Cylon Sh*t! The machines evolving. It reminds me of the end of that movie AI: Artifical Inteligence, when that new species evolved from the bottom of the ocean from all of the humans technology.
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"A mobile phone that biodegrades into a sunflower
Is this some new Abiogenesis theory?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis - tech42er, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3My Root Joke: Now, this technology will probably migrate over to computers as well. Subnotebooks perhaps or tablet PC's? Anyway, I wouldn't really mind getting a sunflower phone, but I don't think the computer would be very secure. After all, if anyone stole it from me, they'd instantly have root.
- imthirsty72, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The point of this is for phones to be biodegradable for when you throw them away, to be better for the environment. You don't bury it with a flower while it's in use or anything, so you don't have to worry about it not lasting.
- Qoose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I can see it now. When the pilgrims came over, they didn't stick a fish in with thier plants as they learned from the natives. They pulled out a phone and dropped it in with thier crops!
- Iputspikesinyou, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Big deal. My processor is made out of a vanilla milkshake.
- sh0rtbus56, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0blah.
- sputza, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Digg is getting way to green.
- Amadeus2490, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Almost sounds like stuff Willy Wonka would invent; A lasagna circuitboard?!
Next they're going to make an edible (safe to eat) LCD. - Sam334, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1http://www.duggmirror.com
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4I just installed Linux on it.
Continue. - SmokeAbowl, on 10/12/2007, -15/+2***** OLD, MAN.
- osc1882, on 10/12/2007, -73/+6I was going to write a funny joke for the first post in these comments. But then I couldn't think of one.
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