Sunday, June 11, 2006

Cellphone disassembly

This is from WorldChanging. Companies like Nokia are designing cellphones that can be disassembled within 2 seconds, as compared to the manual disassembly process of over 2 minutes. Computers and many other electronic goods are recycled, but the disassembly time required for cellphones did not justify doing it profitably, and therefore cellphones were normally shredded. But this attitude is changing, and there are research groups such as Active Disassembly that exclusively work on designing screws and nuts and bolts that can be simply heated with a laser and open up the device within seconds. Cellphone recyclying can surely become a lucrative industry, as also suggested by Keshav.

1 Comments:

Blogger Renu Sharma said...

Yr Blog is realy good.
I found yr current posting is from December 2006.. something wrong with template.

Keep doing the good work.

2:43 AM  

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