Bamboo is the new plastic
IT'S STARTING TO LOOK LIKE THE NEXT CEBIT is going to be flooded with shedloads of computer gear which has bamboo casing.
While there have been a few bamboo computers touted by hardware makers before, so far there have been few attempts to make the gear mainstream.
That is until punters started getting all excited about green computing. Nothing says 'back to nature' more than a lump of timber holding your bits and bobs together. The tree has to be part of sustainable forest for anyone to make the claim that it is good for you and that is where bamboo comes in.
Asus is set to release a Bamboo Series notebook in spring and we are expecting see more bamboo kit from the Korean manufacturer at Cebit.
The one model it has announced is the Asus Bamboo PC which will cost $1,650. The range will have a compact desktop system and an LCD monitor.
Dell is thinking of doing some more work with its bamboo range and Fujitsu is responding with the WoodShell, chassis made with cedar wood.
Wood frames are recyclable or at least easy to get rid of something that those who are worried about Global Warming and the life styles of polar bears can readily identified with. Certainly the IT industry has been falling over itself to make its products appear greener.
Apple had a crack by reducing the toxic chemicals in its computers but blotted its copybook by claiming that monoblock aluminium casing was good for the environment.
Bamboo is fast becoming the new wonder material in the far east where its fibres are even made into blankets and its branches into lightweight bikes.
What has stopped bamboo pushing its way into the serious IT use is the fact that it is usually more expensive as it is flogged as a novelty. µ
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Computers should be powered by sewer gas.
And powered by the heat of all lower IQ heads.
With a lot of claims that computers are mostly used for online porno, the irony the power to run these would be septic.
You are what you consume, I guess.
"Nothing says 'back to nature' more than a lump of timber holding your bits and bobs together"
Yeah right, that should read
"Nothing says 'back to nature' more than a lump of cash from the claim that you are doing something good for nature when you're really not"
The new hot item on the list is you don't have to do anything to curve your consumerism because we already did, do nothing.
Hemp could do all that and more but some as*wholes in the USA in the 30's knew it would cut into their chemical making industry. So the as*wholes put a stop to that real quick. Other then the hemp ropes that were imported from India to tie up the boats, and I don't remember to many people trying to smoke it.
cutting trees for computers is not good.
that is certainly not putting "bits and bobs together".
may be they should just start painting the cabinets GREEN.
a*holes
If your up on your pollution, you'll know that CO2 emitted by trees past a certain period of life (usually 3-10 years) due to decay actually do more harm than good, so cutting them down and planting new saplings is actually better for the environment. Besides, once we go to a paperless society what will the tree farms do?
...far more so than using trees. Bamboo's growth rate in measured in inches per day, far faster than regular wood. And, like any plant, it will act as a carbon sink.
ASUS is NOT a Korean company ... Taiwanese me thinks.
j.
I would like to inform everyone that Bamboo is not wood. No, it's not.
It's grass.
That's why it grows so fast.
The reason I know this is that I read it on the Internets. Don't all you guys read the Internets?
lmao!
Thanks for making me laugh, I was almost falling sleep @ job.