A New Concept - Disposable Laptop Works Better as a Metaphor Than an Actual Product

[mihutza]

There's no doubt about it: Today, the concept of a disposable laptop is totally ridiculous. But you know what else was ridiculous? Disposable cameras, 60 years ago. And this thing just looks fantastic, so I'll let it slide.

There are a lot of holes you could poke in this concept, like the flippant use of meaningless terms like "bio chip" and buzzwords like "convergence" and "high technology," and the fact that by the time vital components like the battery and display are cheap enough to throw away—that will be 2020, according to the designer's completely arbitrary calculations—laptops, or whatever we're using, probably won't be shaped like this.


But if you think about it, we're heading toward this kind of design anyway: flimsy, dirt-cheap notebooks seem to have a short intended lifespan, and hell, even my polycarbonate MacBook felt like it was beginning to disintegrate after about two years of heavy use. It may not have been cardboard, but in its own way, it sure felt disposable.

This is a little bit crazy...disposable laptop? What do u think about all this concept?

It'll never work in that way. They may be disposable already with those little mini laptops going for 2 and 3 hundo. Shit you can buy a brand new Dell for 5 bills. That's cheap for a laptop and certainly they only last a certain amount of time, it's like they already are. Maybe the materials they use will change, but never cardboard. This guy sounds like he is tryin to make it big off a dumb invention he thought of when he was drunk.

[mihutza]

We can never know what the future will bring. We will live and see. Maybe in a couple of years this concept will sound just fine.