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I love LifeHacker...that shouldn't come as a surprise. I mean...my life needs hacking. But today they have an excellent guide to breaking the status quo and making Christmas the time of year when, instead of replacing your old toys, you revive them!
Turn your XBox into a media player, beef up the firmware on your router, revive your old PC with Linux, or upgrade your current PC with simple instructions for RAM, hard drives, or even a new motherboard and CPU.
Suddenly what looks like an old Dell, an aged iPod, or a broken-down laptop becomes useful, powerful and Christmas-worthy!
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written by Marilyn Terrell, December 19, 2007
Excellent idea! National Geographic has an article in their Jan. issue (now online) about how discarded electronics often end up in toxic dumps in Ghana, where they are recycled in a very primitive and dangerous way:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2008-01/high-tech-trash/carroll-text.html
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2008-01/high-tech-trash/carroll-text.html
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written by club penguin, June 03, 2009
I am constantly amazed at the response from the community, lines are HUGE and no one seems to mind. It totally decreases the worldsuck around here. As nice as it is, I wonder how many aren't participating, how many obsolete techno-gadgets get tossed in the trash, ew.
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Kane county, IL has monthly electronic recycling - computers, tvs, phones, etc - landfill unfriendly stuff, and I am constantly amazed at the response from the community, lines are HUGE and no one seems to mind. It totally decreases the worldsuck around here. As nice as it is, I wonder how many aren't participating, how many obsolete techno-gadgets get tossed in the trash, ew. I don't know if other states have such programs, and if they don't, why not??
Thanks for such awesome web sites.