I hate to sound negative, but this just sounds like a ridiculous idea. Even if the "case" is made out of paper, won't there still be a motherboard with lead, mercury and whatever else? won't there still be an LCD? It just doesn't seem like this could be "tossed in the trash" when you were done with it.

I agree with richpit, the case is the least harmful part of the laptop. The batteries and screen still contain harmful chemicals, among other things. This seems like another case of a company making "trendy" green products, rather than those that are actually practical and truly environmentally friendly.

What about water?? it would get stained very easily from any liquid, be it coffee, tea or juice. And it wouldn't be very durable either...kinda lame.

p.s. Could there please be some type of login system on this site so we don't have to do the very @)(*_(*@#&$ annoying captchas all the time??! I don't comment as mutch because of them even when I have a lifechanging idea. :P

also, oils from hands would turn this thing nasty very quickly. This is just a gimmik, just like Dvice. I don't know why I even come to this site still. the commenting system and article image design is awful. And they just steal their articles from other sources without doing any in depth research (ie. sometimes I don't think they even read the articles..)

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i think a lot of you are forgetting about OLED's they use ORGANIC substrates, also carbon nanotubes aswell can be used to created the chips and traces for the circuitry, instead of a battery an atachable fuel cell could be used that sits to the side. Also people talking about water staining, if you could think for a few moments, how do you think PAPER BASED milk cartons keep their contents without disintegrating, seriously if people could THINK you could apply different sources of information and common day things to see how this kind of item could work.

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rofl now to wait for the comments :)

That's crazy! You're crazy! There's no way this would work because I said it won't and I'm always right (as far as I need to know). There's no such thing as the environment. It's all mythology passed down from hippies to their deformed LSD fed children to make fat-cat corporate people feel bad about themselves.

Right... now that I got my sarcasm out of the way, I like the idea of a recyclable computer, but this looks more like a minimalist netbook (which would be great for running DSL (the linux distro, not the internet connection) or Slackware with Fluxbox. Still, this concept is not very well executed. I hate touching cardboard. I think I'd hate touching waxed cardboard while computing even more.

No, the real environmentally friendly computer is on where every component could be re-used or recycled efficiently. Take your average Dell tower... They've got proprietary motherboard mounts, proprietary power switch wires, proprietary fan ducts (which are annoying)... and the only way you can use a Dell case to build a computer out of non-dell parts is to mod the case. Compaq, HP, IBM, and many more do the same with other components, but if you took a stack of computers from those manufacturers and tried to build a computer, you'd have a stack of parts taking up space and no working computers and I'm talking about desktops... nevermind recycling or re-using any part of any laptop... not happening!

Good Intention, but bad design