Greening your desktop

Swedish firm Swedx offers a solution to the growing mountain of nasty toxic plastic cases left behind when computers are thrown away. They sell wooden-cased monitors,
mice and keyboards in beech, ash, or sapele (makes a change from beige, beige, black, black or beige). The cost is about 30% more than the plastic versions, but we suppose they're easier on the eye than plastic if your taste in furniture runs that way. As science journal Nature points out, though, doing away with plastic cases doesn't solve the problem of how you dispose of the innards. Or, for that matter, the tons of resources needed to make them.

[Via Slashdot Japan]