Circuit boards recycled as notebook covers

As splendid as these PCB-protected notebooks are, permit me a little disappointment that they are not laptops with chassis made of old circuit boards, copper traces and all.

Recycled Circuit Boards WireBound Notebook in Various Sizes
[First Impressions Last Longer]

[#1 posted by ZoopyFunk , December 16, 2008 4:57 PM]

Even better? Circuit boards disguised as Netbook covers.

[#2 posted by RedShirt77 , December 16, 2008 5:00 PM]

how is this not a pincushion?

[#3 posted by Rob Beschizza , December 16, 2008 5:09 PM]

Responsible PCB-recycling artists grind and polish!

[#4 posted by Ceronomus , December 16, 2008 5:24 PM]

I think I bought my first circuit board notebook in the 80's, this is neither new nor exciting...though it is nice to know that people are still doing it.

[#5 posted by El Stinko , December 16, 2008 6:51 PM]

Not that I should be complaining, because I like that they are recycling... but I have had one of these notebooks for at least 15 years. This isn't a new product.

Still cool though.

[#6 posted by dculberson , December 16, 2008 6:52 PM]

They use the blanks that failed testing / etc. Usually have never had components on them.

[#7 posted by cayton , December 16, 2008 8:10 PM]

I bought a 3-ring binder made from defunct motherboards 7-10 years ago at a thrift store. Love that thing.

[#8 posted by Takuan , December 16, 2008 9:47 PM]

must make a jerkin of scale mail one day.

[#9 posted by gouldina , December 17, 2008 1:57 AM]

There used to be a guy in Spitalfields market in London who sold lampshades out of PCBs. I have one in one of my bedrooms.

[#10 posted by gox , December 17, 2008 2:09 AM]

ahm..ouch.

[#11 posted by acb , December 17, 2008 2:53 AM]

Perhaps after steampunk, atompunk and dieselpunk, we need a new movement for modding laptops by covering them with circuit boards, ICs and other electronic-looking bits. How about "tronpunk"?