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Project: Less is more (for the environment!)
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‘Hi! How are you?’
Or‘Hi! Where are you?’
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behaviour!Anti-social
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a mobile
culture
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after U!TheyR
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other
audiences
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What was the first
mobile phone?
Motorola DynaTAC
Motorola Walkie Talkie
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Smaller,Smaller, Smaller!Oh! And can you make them more affordable? (please!)
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Then the rules changed!
Marc Newson’s Talby
Isamu Sanada Hipod
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What about the environmental impact?
Planned Obsolescence. Who benefits?
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What materials?
LCDContains liquid crystalline substances, such as mercury, sandwiched between glass or plastic
Electricity consumptionDoesn’t compare to houses or carsKinetic energyHydrogen fuel cellsZinc air fuel cellsSolar energy
Board and outer bodyThese are constructed from plastic, which requires crude oil.
PCBThese include gold, copper, lead, nickel, tantalum and coltan.
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http://www.activedisassembly.com/10_videos.html
What is Active Disassembly (AD)?
What is a smart material?What is SMA?
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Why do we discard our
mobile phones so quickly?
Is it just appearance and functions?
What if we could improve the appearance and the function of an
existing phone?
designtechnologyHere’s one theory!
designtechnologyHere’s one theory!
Good
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Bad
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Add a new function here?
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Add a new function here? Easy!
designtechnologyHere’s one theory!
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designtechnologyLess Project: Less is more (for the environment!)
designtechnologyLess Project: Less is more (for the environment!)
What else could it do?
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Why the iPhone makes 2008 seem like 1968 all over again
