The rise of e-commerce means there are an awful lot of cardboard boxes making one-way trips before maybe ending up in a recycling bin under the best of circumstances. A startup called LivingPackets wants to shake things up with the aid of reusable packaging. The company has announced a new reusable shipping box with an […]
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If you’re going to clone a netbook, why not the packaging too?
We’ve seen dozens of netbooks come out of Shanzai shops in China which look like exact replicas (or at least distant cousins) of name brand computers. But one company is taking things to a new level by not just cloning the look and feel of the HP Mini 5102 netbook — but also cloning HP’s […]
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Dell goes greenish with bamboo-based packaging for netbooks
Dell has started using bamboo in the packaging for some of its products including Dell Inspiron Mini 10 and Inspiron Mini 10v netboooks. The bamboo will be used instead of foam, while the cardboard boxes that Dell uses to ship the computers is made of 25% post-consumer recycled material. Bamboo is generally considered to be […]