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Computers

Brilliant: HP Packages Laptop in its Own Bag

Posted by Mark Wilson at 10:54 PM on September 4, 2008

We've seem our share of good packaging ideas and bad packaging ideas, but this new method from HP is a great packaging idea. Their Pavilion dv692 systems available at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club will sit on the shelf in their own recycled material messenger bags, stabilised and protected with internal air bubbles. This alternative to huge boxes shoved full of styrofoam has reduced HP's individual consumer packaging by an outrageous 97%.

Peripherals

TDK Join The Environmentally Friendly Packaging Movement

Posted by Nick Broughall at 11:39 AM on May 16, 2008

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Every year, millions of plastic CD and DVD cases and unrecyclable plastic spindles are thrown into landfill. It's a tragic prctice that will single-handedly create the downfall of the human race, unless something is done about it.

TDK know this, so they're now releasing their recordable CDs and DVDs in environmentally friendly, 100% recyclable cardboard filing drawers, which not only save the planet from plastic landfill-related end-of-the-world scenarios, but can be used as an easy-access filing method for your discs.

The only downside is that this is actually a limited time promotion - although if its successful, TDK will consider saving the world all the time, not just at the end of the financial year.

A 100 pack of CDs will set you back $35, while recordable DVDs (both +R and -R) will cost you $50.

[TDK]

Hardware

Linksys Jumps On The Environment Bandwagon With Green Packaging

Posted by Nick Broughall at 11:41 AM on April 18, 2008

After almost destroying the internet as we know it (ha!), Linksys have decided to embrace nature by revolutionising their product packaging.

Here's what they've done:

They've ditched the sleeve inside the box that tells you all about the product - all that info is now written on the box itself
The size of each product's box has been reduced (which must mean that the sleeve information is in a tiny font, I guess)
All the packaging is going to be recyclable or bio-degradable
Everything's printed on recycled paper with eco-friendly inks made from vegetable and soy (yum!)
Plastic bags are being eradicated wherever possible

Apparently all this ecofriendly effort has resulted in more than 40% reduction in waste materials. Which is a lot. If every tech company put in this kind of effort, we could be living in a sparkling utopian vision of the future after all.
[Linksys]

Alarm Clock Saves Materials By Coming Packaged in It's Own Casing

Posted by Seamus Byrne at 7:30 AM on April 17, 2007

This alarm clock is an exercise in efficiency, using the box that it comes packaged in as a casing once you get it home. Made of corrugated cardboard, it would be able to be taken apart and then put back together with a space for the actual clock component.

It's a pretty neat idea, although I can't say I'd want a cardboard alarm clock. –Adam Frucci

Alarm Clock From Its Own Packaging [Yanko Design]

The Vista that Could Have Been: Alternative OS Concept Designs Rock

Posted by Seamus Byrne at 10:55 AM on April 15, 2007

Check out these Vista concept shots. Just look at the packaging pictured above. Would you ever see that lining the shelves at Best Buy? No. And that's what makes seeing this stuff so enjoyable.

Sure, the folder concept is completely space inefficient. And what we can only assume is a pure diamond block case would probably be expensive even for mass production. But my guess is that most consumers would be more likely to impulse buy an OS if it looked like something out of an 80s future movie.

Hit the jump for more concept shots...this time of the OS in action. Let's just say that Aero is looking pretty snazzy right about now. Though, there is one shot in there that screams iPod Nano commercial. Did Apple rip off Longhorn?? Fanboy fight!