What a wrongheaded, quixotic, and yet opportunistic and callous idea. A cardboard PC. Now, they’re launching a product I was careful to denounce several months ago, and all my objections still apply.

The Recompute company is selling 3 ready-made computers with cardboard cases, and a DIY kit, that includes the same case and a 400 watt power from Athena. As you might guess, the company's main focus ...

Brenden Macaluso doesn't consider himself an environmentalist. He's a designer at heart. But the Houston resident hopes the cardboard computer casing he created will encourage others to rethink what ...

A fully working computer made of cardboard has entered production and the first units should be available within weeks. Recompute is a ‘Sustainable Computer’ designed to be environmentally friendly by ...

PC manufacturers often treat environmental friendliness as something that begins and ends with using recycled materials for the packaging, but what about the average desktop PC casing itself?

Google Cardboard, the previous VR platform, might be dead, but Google is finding other ways to put cardboard in people's hands. Last May, it introduced its AIY DIY AI Voice kit that leveraged the ...

Back in the 70’s when computers were fairly expensive and out of reach for most people, [David Hagelbarger] of Bell Laboratories designed CARDIAC: CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation. CARDIAC ...

Being an early adapter is one thing, but there are times when gobbling up every newfangled gadget can have distinct disadvantages. Aside from the undiscovered flaws and unknowns that can exist with ...