Vodafone turns recycled phones into geek chic

Perhaps giving up on extracting every last juicy nugget of copper, tin, and awesomeness out of customers' trashed phones after they've been turned in for recycling, Vodafone is turning to a decidedly more low-tech solution: jewelry. As of next month, it looks like some Voda locales will be getting baubles fashioned from old handsets' green innards -- not to say we've ever necessarily wanted a Terminator-esque owl hanging from our keychain, but at just 120 koruny each ($6), we might be convinced to buy anyhow. Who knows, maybe we'd get our old phone back, and you know what they say: if you love it, let it go... yeah, you know the rest.

[adviceman Posted Feb 26th 2010 3:21PM]

This is a cool little dohicky! Recycling and its coming from our old broken phones. The next coolest thing would have to be the new Bizarro apps with all our favorite comics in an app. Cool stuff happening in the phone world.

[Greenverde Posted Feb 26th 2010 3:24PM]

That's cool. I actually know some people who would be interested in this sort of thing, too bad this isn't done in the states.

[Zac89 Posted Feb 26th 2010 4:12PM]

That's actually pretty cool. Yeah, if they did this in the states, they would probably sell quite well.

[Pookiewood Posted Feb 28th 2010 10:18AM]

Neat.....but uhhhh what about lead and other chemicals that was needed to make the board?