NEC's N701i ECO corn-based phone

NEC is busting out an edible environmentally friendly phone, the N701i ECO, to match their corn laptops. The phone body is made up of 75 percent plant materials, including corn and potatoes. Once disposed of (we hope not before) the phone eventually becomes water and carbon dioxide, leaving the earth free from housing another lame out-of-date phone. Seriously guys, not even mother nature wants to be caught toting that old black and white screened Nokia of yours, or this Bluetooth-less N701i. She's gotta represent.

[Jabari @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

LOOks like a fone for DOcoMO...but nways corn based plastics are the future.....hope to see more of this...

[Niels @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

(Title) Nokia? NEC you mean?

[Mickey Jones @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

I like the look of this phone. Very "2001:ASO" looking. Just needs that big red lens.

Is it edible in a pinch?

[Sted @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

If it were edible, could you then say you had to answer a call of nature?

[blore40 @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

You know you are exposed to too much radiation if the phone turns to popcorn.

[Deluxe @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

Old news! This handset was released on the first of October.

[Bill Hudgins @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

Latest choice for a southern U.S. restaurant patron: hominy grits and corn phone.

[David @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

Seems like a lot of carbos. I want a phone that gives me a balanced diet.

[Seth @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

bill hudgins: HAHA! Nice.

[Apoco-Lips @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

Soon we'll make everything out of corn and then in a 1000 years there'll be nothing left to show our monkey overlords that we once ate at tables and read emails on our phones while pooping too.

(the robot overlord thing didnt last... cause we made them out of corn)

"Get your hands off me you damn dirty ape!"

[popeye @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

Great more CO2/greenhouse gases to slow down our planetary domination...