A class of Stanford University graduate students have been honored as the Autodesk Inventor of the Month for October for developing a prototype of the recyclable Bloom laptop. The Bloom is the project of a team of students from Stanford and Finland’s Aalto University who were given the task to create a recyclable consumer electronics product that makes electronics recycling a simpler, more effective and engaging process for consumers. The students used Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Inventor Publisher software to help develop and refine the innovative laptop during the school year. Creating 3D digital prototypes of the hardware components inside the laptop aided in creating a readily accessible laptop design that is also easy to disassemble. When separated into different material types — such as plastics, metals and circuitry — the Bloom laptop’s modular design makes it easy for consumers to decrease the amount of electronic waste added to landfills. For example, 1.9 to 2.2 million tons of electronics became obsolete in 2005, with only 345000 to 379000 tons being recycled. The Bloom can be disassembled in just two minutes, without tools and in just 10 steps. By comparison, a commercially available laptop takes about 45 minutes to disassemble, requires three separate tools and involves as many as 120 steps.
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Stanford Students Design Recyclable Laptop with Autodesk Inventor Software
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macbook pro is a unibody cheaters
made in japan …. lol
This Laptop Will Cost Too much Money To Product. You Can Disassemble A Regular Laptop in Less Than 10 Minutes, if you Know What you’re Doing……….
not immpresive though …
Good stuff
The only thing missing is integrated solar panels.
That’s some education.
@KhaledKhalil And I don’t want to waste money on things that break down in a second from people who don’t know the phrase “Turing Complete”.
This is good.
Fuck industry big-shots.
@KhaledKhalil More profitable for the computer manufacturer, not the hardware manufacturer. The hardware manufacturers are forced to give deals to computer manufacturers because of the competition surrounding supplying components to major clients who will buy thousands of them. When consumers buy directly from the hardware manufacturer they do not get any of these special deals because consumers don’t buy thousands of components so the hardware manufacturer makes more on individual sales.
@ebeck999 I agree with you there.
This Aaron fellow is a fine piece of ass. I bet he gets all the half jewish half Korean girls and french girls too.
OMG THEY ARE MY HERO!!! I WANT FORM FACTORABILITY ON LAPTOPS SOOO BAD! TAKING APART DIFFERENT LAPTOPS IS LIKE TAKING APART A DVD PLAYER AND A TOASTER, JUST NO T THE SAME!! THIS LAPTOP FTW!!!
@quangluu96 That’s called a nettop. Not very useful compared to a laptop.
this is not how capitalism/consumerism relation works, you should waste your laptop to buy a newer one, that’s more profitable for corporations.
One of the reasons I prefer a desktop is that I can easily build, customize, and upgrade my own hardware without hassle. Hopefully this will bring about something similar for laptops. I’d buy one (or the components for one) without hesitation.
@MythOfEchelon not really, the cover is probably metal, or thin metal, well instead of screws he just organize the hardware, not a regular laptop that everything is messy, with the wire and other stuffs
how bout a desktop now, u change it into portable that fit into a suitcase
very thick it will be… Pretty useless though…
The concept is at the right direction, but it’s not polished.
Laptops nowadays are designed in the same fashion where hardware components can be taken apart, upgradable and recyclable. The 30 sec. factor and wireless gadget aren’t necessary. The concept is conflicting where the idea is to reduce e-waste ,and yet, on the other hand producing more. (a wireless keyboard/trackpad would do the job! why have it built-in?) I can summarize the concept as making a laptop like a desktop. nd more wk!
Very fragile?
i see this innovation becoming the future of laptops. not only is it good for the consumer, because it is easily recyclable, and easy to understand, but form factors could be created, leading to a potential mainstream market for building custom laptops, the same way that people are able to build their own desktops
potential for upgradeable laptops anyone?
Autodesk, at the end your video, you mention this video can’t be shared without written expression from you. Yet I can click on the share and embedded button. Are you expecting the user of youtube spam you with email when they share it on social media websites? Get real.
its genius, But you almost always have to be within arms length to see what your typing and i never had the need/urge to take apart my laptop in 30 seconds without a screwdriver. but i get the concept
awesome!!
Au revoir la solidité et la stabilité du matériel ne parlons pas des saloperie qui peuvent s’incruster dedans!
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