Rubber Wristband turned Into iPhone 4 Saver

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:37:28 +0000

Have you heard lately that Apple iPhones have erratic signal? There’s one surefire way to solve the iPhone 4 antenna problem: don’t let your hand or fingers come in contact with its metal band.

Easier said than done, right? Unless you’re willing to constantly use the speakerphone, a headset, or a pair of gloves, your only viable option is to keep the iPhone in a case–or, as some have discovered, wrap it in a rubber “bumper.”

A CNET report that iPhone Guru blogger Oliver Nelson crafted a clever DIY iPhone 4 bumper solution out of one of those rubber wristbands you probably have sitting in a junk drawer.

It’s a pretty straightforward project: stretch a wristband around the edge of your iPhone and presto, you’re done. If you’re handy with an X-Acto knife, you can cut holes for the headphone jack, mute switch, dock connector, and so on.

Photo by Oliver Nelson.

An ATM that buys old cellphones and other electronics

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:26:50 +0000

Garbage junk is a lucrative business here in the Philippines, from the street buyers who buys used bottles, newspapers, irons and plastics to wholesale buyers. The electronic junks that clutter in our house is yet to be harness to turn it back to money and recycle it. Springwise has this report from the U.S.; Offering a solution is EcoATM, an automated reuse-and-recycle machine that makes it easy and financially rewarding for consumers to offload their abandoned electronics.

The process is simple: a customer feeds the machine an old mobile phone and it analyses the device and assigns it a value. If the phone has a resale value, the customer receives store credit, or can donate the amount to charity. If there’s no resale value, customers can choose to have the handset recycled.

The first EcoATM was installed in Omaha, Nebraska, and has already proved successful, with 23 phones collected on the first day.

It’s likely to hold appeal for retailers and manufacturers too, as the system is designed to facilitate compliance with new federal ‘takeback’ laws. Although it currently only takes mobile phones, EcoATM will soon be able to accept a range of consumer electronics including MP3 players, digital cameras and even computers and printers.

The incentive for EcoATM is clear: an estimated 12 billion dollars is currently sitting in drawers across America in the form of old phones.

Photo by EcoATM. junk is a lucrative business here in the Philippines, from the street buyers who buys used bottles, newspapers, irons and plastics to wholesale buyers. The electronic junks that clutter in our house is yet to be harness to turn it back to money and recycle it. Springwise has this report from the U.S.; Offering a solution is EcoATM, an automated reuse-and-recycle machine that makes it easy and financially rewarding for consumers to offload their abandoned electronics.

Junk is a lucrative business here in the Philippines, from the street buyers who buys used bottles, newspapers, irons and plastics to the wholesale buyers. The electronic junks that clutter in our house is yet to be harness to recycle or reuse the working items and at the same time turn it back as money. Springwise has this report from the U.S. offering a solution is EcoATM, an automated reuse-and-recycle machine that makes it easy and financially rewarding for consumers to offload their abandoned electronics.

The first EcoATM was installed in Omaha, Nebraska, and has already proved successful, with 23 phones collected on the first day.

The incentive for EcoATM is clear: an estimated 12 billion dollars is currently sitting in drawers across America in the form of old phones.

Photo by EcoATM.

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Rubber Wristband turned Into iPhone 4 Saver

An ATM that buys old cellphones and other electronics