Tired of your computer? Eat it!

At a recent exhibition at the Science Museum in London a handful of new electronic technologies were unveiled, including a circuit board made of pasta.

The board is a genuine piece of pasta with some electronic components on it. When you are finished with it all you have to do is boil it in water and all the bits fall off.

Their exhibition also showcased a printer case made of corn-based BioPlastic that degrades gracefully, and a phone case made of Kenaf, a plant grown all over the world, which effectively melts when you bury it.

One mobile phone case had been made from biodegradable plastic, with a sunflower seed inserted into it. By planting the case in the soil a flower grows.

(Source: BBC News in Sept. 2006 WasteWatch)

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