Good on ya, HP. Sure, we’ve snorted and larfed at your idea of eco-friendly packaging in the past, but you’re doing a good thing with your dv6929 laptop packaging, the winner of Wal-Mart’s Home Entertainment Design Challenge. They’ve cut down the standard wasteful sarcophagi of cardboard and styrofoam into a snazzy canvas laptop carrying bag made of 100 percent recycled fabric, cushioned by a couple of inflated plastic bags. The laptop can be purchased at any Wal-Mart or Sam’s Club for $798.
I’m not the greenest-souled member of the BBG junta in the slightest, but what always amazes me is the aesthetics of conservation: you may be a cantankerous solipsist who couldn’t care a fig what happens to our particular orb once you are no longer around to suck its carcinogenic, tomacco-like nectar dry, but it is undeniable that selling someone a laptop in a lovely knit case that doubles as a laptop carrying bag is simply more attractive and eye-pleasing than getting it in a laminated carton full of styrofoam peanuts.
HO Bags Wal-Mart’s Reduced Packaging Award With Laptop In A Bag [Treehugger]
Given the speed at which computers become obsolete a well-made bag like could long outlive the computer it was designed to package. It could become a desirable object in its own right, like those shoulder bags airlines used to give out ( http://www.luggagepoint.com/productimages/26731_400_400_56SP07_Innovator_VW_FB_front.jpg )
Thanks for the tomacco reference.
Well done to HP for trying this concept out, here’s hoping that with a little forethought it could be the standard way of packaging laptops.
Since the whole point of the laptop bag is to protect a laptop and its accessories, by having the laptop placed into the bag at production, we could cut out tonnes of waste.