Bamboo, the degradable mobile phone

The Bamboo phone is not only biodegradable, but when it is thrown in the compost, seeds stored within it are released and begin to sprout new shoots. [Core77 via Trendhunter]

Once the phone is no longer of use, the user removed the batter, antenna and print board and tosses throws the casing, which is filled with seedlings, in the compost. These new seedlings will eventually become bamboo trees, the thought behind it being that they will counteract the environmental impacts made by the manufacturing process.

The phone was entered in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition by Gert-Jan van Breugel, a designer from the Netherlands.

emily | 10:39 AM | Technology |
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