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The world's rubbish bins are filling up with discarded
cellular telephones, many of which appear to be Nokia
models if their fate, as opposed to that of Apple, is any
guide.
Therefore, UBCo have been rooting about in the rubbish
bins of the world, gathering up used units and
scavenging
a
few parts of them, as below:
Wire up the camera to the memory module, to record a
video message for the fossils... err, grandparents.
Hook up the earpiece to play back the soundtrack, and
the
screen, to play back the video component, add the
battery
then hook up a switch that activates the playback, upon
opening the card, before gluing it all into a fancy
Christmas card, with a foam layer to add enough bulk to
house all of the gadgetry.
Record; post; enjoy the accolades. May be recharged for
continued enjoyment, or wiped and re-recorded by
thrifty
recipients.
Should attract a hefty premium over the value of the
disused 'phone.
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So, a Christmas card with a video in it? Card manufacturers already do these, but they work a bit differently: You send someone a card which looks like a normal card except that it has a picture of your choice on the front. The receipient puts the card on their table and points the camera of their smartphone at it. On the screen of their smartphone they see the card sitting on their table, but instead of the picture on the front of the card, there is a video playing, looking as if it were playing on a screen on the front of the card. The video is something either made by you or chosen by you and stored on the card company's website (which probably has some sort of porn filter). |
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More like a Xmas card with a recycled mobile 'phone
in it. I don't really care that it's done somehow... I
care that mobile 'phones are toxic waste and not
being recycled. |
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Yes, in general I'd like to see more specialist recycling. As a result of some rewiring I did at the weekend I now have several kilograms of nichrome wire which I'm now not sure what to do with. |
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Make yourself a spectacularly shiny soldered
sculpture? |
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// What else would you do with recycled mobile 'phone
components. // |
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At the risk of offending [MikeD], I'll point out that a very
popular use for them can oft be found sitting on the
roadside in various Asian warzones, and probably also in
[8th]'s shower room. |
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// I now have several kilograms of nichrome ... not sure
what to do with // |
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You can always get a sizable chunk of pocket change for it
from your local scrap dealer. NiChrome is highly prized
stuff. |
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That's a quite bunnable idea in itself [Ao]. |
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I think [FT] meant using a mobile 'phone to wire
together some of the stuff in [8th]'s shower room.
After all, he's a Brit, so it's unlikely the shower will be
used any time soon. |
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//he's a Brit, so it's unlikely the shower will be used
any time soon.// |
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Quite right. Showers are for sportsmen and
foreigners. A man who can't be bothered to ask his
staff to draw him a bath is fit for nothing apart from
running a sheep station. |
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// At the risk of offending [MikeD] // |
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"You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din !" |
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Oddly, [bigsleep], quite a bit. The average time a
manufacture (including packaging and product) now
takes to enter the wastestream is down to fewer
than 120 days. That's average, mind you. |
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Holding it out for another year is more than three
times the average time taken for most manufactured
goods to be junked. |
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If it amuses some idiot for a while, and forestalls
their purchase of some other useless concatenation
of precious resources then that's about all we can do. |
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There are times I'd like to be able to forcibly remove
half of the people from the planet, just to give it a
bit of a break from our relentless consumption of its
bounty. |
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