A cellphone that self-dismounts, in 2 seconds
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Nokia is developing a cellphone prototype that can dismount within a snap. Wonder why? Because a cellphone that falls apart is easier to recycle. And to make this possible, Nokia mainly relies on shape memory alloy, which are materials that morph into another shape depending on the temperature.
“The heat-activated mechanism is a fast and cheap method if compared to manual dismantling, which takes on average two minutes and costs about 0.3-0.8 , per phone. In the project, the heat-activated disassembly took only two seconds and the only cost is the investment cost in a disassembly line.” says Nokia (via textually). It’s good that environmental care could spark some innovations.
Jul 28, 2006 | By Nuno
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