Cheap, disposable mobile phone coming.

[bonkers325]

An inventor in the United States is working on a $10 phone that is three credit cards thick and made from recycled paper products.

The Phone-Card-Phone comes with 60 minutes of calling time, a hands-free attachment and is designed to be thrown away after its use. In addition, the user can charge extra calling time via his/her credit card.

Link

 

[saxman]

<< The inventor, Randi Altschul, is also working on a paper laptop, which would cost $20 and be available at the end of 2002. >>




lol....yeah...sure

 

[luv2chill]

What's up with this disposable trend? I saw a commercial the other day for disposable hearing aids. WTF??? LAME.

l2c

 

[sparkle]

can't go wrong with creating un-necesary waste!

 

[OS]

<< can't go wrong with creating un-necesary waste! >>



LOL, no kidding

 

[bonkers325]

next thing u know they will have disposable PC's

 

ahhah

disposable phones. How much more usless can you get

disposable laptops would be funny, defeating the whole purpose.

 

[bonkers325]

time will tell

 

[VoodooExtreme]

already posted...

 

[eyor]

What kind of wasteful things are they going to think of next? Disposable plates? Cameras? ...oh, wait... nm

 

[ecrespol]

Do we become more eco friendly if we create more waste that is recycleable ?

 

[eyor]

Having big-ass diesel powered trucks go around to pick up your empty jars of salad dressing does not seem to be a very efficient process...

 

[bonkers325]

haha :Q

 

[sharkeeper]

I see problems here.

All portable phones (whether activated or not) must still allow 911 calls to go through! I have an old sprint spectrum phone that required a sim card. Phone is useless without the card but still will call 911.

This creates a problem where someone can pick up a discarded phone and make a crank call.

The other scenario: Saddam could have a bunch of kids routing through garbage cans collecting phones. Then he would have them shipped over to his operation where they will combine their processors to make a massively parallel supercomputer for tactical military ops!

Cheers!

 

[tinneric]

This sounds pretty lame.

 

[eakers]

nooooooooooo
this was my idear
i had it like 2 years ago

STOP WATCHING MY LIFE!

*kat. <-- too young and no capital to get rich

 

[bonkers325]

lol eakers

 

[Scrapster]

next thing u know they will have disposable PC's

Isn't that what a Compaq is?