Linc Concept Phone

LINC is a new type of touch screen smart phone that you can find anything new in it (It’s got a media player, a web browser, GPS, Bluetooth, wifi, 3G, blah, blah, blah etc) but what makes it stand out from the rest of the mobile crowd is that it is “designed for disassembly”.

It meets your needs as coustmer as well as the needs of the earth. Basic idea is that you lease your phone instead of owning it. After a year, you send your current handset back to LINC, which builds the phones for easy, automated disassembly to simplify component recycling. The device contains valuable materials like aluminum, glass, and electronic components that the producer can harvest for re-use.

If implemented, a design such as this could greatly reduce hazardous waste and improve environmental health by reducing e-waste.