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inhabitat.com - 1/8/2009

The Biodegradable Grass Cell Phone

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Hay may be for horses, but it makes a pretty great mobile phone material as well. Appearing for all the world like a brick of sod outfitted with a keypad, Je-Hyun Kim’s Natural Year Phone concept carefully considers the life cycle of cellular phones, which are all too frequently ...

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Green Options:  Grass Phone Biodegrades After Two Years

MAKE Magazine:  Green cellphone biodegrades after two years

• hoffboom1

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  It's a phone security site to help secure your phone, its contact info, pics, and other valuable personal info you have on it.

  Check it out!

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Grass Phone Biodegrades After Two Years
Green Options — ... Je-Hyun Kim’s Natural Year Phone design almost makes cell phones cool in my book. The phone, which is made up of hay, a screen, and keys, is designed only to last as long as its functional life cycle (2 years) before it biodegrades and falls apart. ...

Green cellphone biodegrades after two years
MAKE Magazine — This "green" cellphone concept by Je-Hyun Kim takes the dilemma of getting a new phone every two years (which most of go through constantly) into account by integrating a biodegradeable body into the phone. Made to disintegrate when the two years are up, the phone will make you feel a bit better about wanting the newest gear. via InHabitat Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!