As our world slowly fills up with undestructable cell phone batteries, designers Theo Richardson, Charles Brill and Alex Williams of RBW have a simple but brilliant idea to clean up at least some of the pollution that’s turning our planet into a waste heap for the future.
What’s the idea? A safe, ecofriendly cell phone battery and charger that can be used for all models, across all companies.
How, you wonder, has no one thought of it? Probably because we hate nature.
New cell phones come out almost weekly and we eat them up like a delicious bar of chocolate. What do we do with our old phones? We throw them away, and they end up in a landfill, and more often than not, the hazardous chemicals in them reach our water and poison our earth.
Thanks, battery manufacturers!
The name of the game is the Green Cell Battery. It’s a safe, recyclable battery with no toxic chemicals and Richardson, Brill and Williams won third place at the Greener Gadgets Competition for its concept.
What, you wonder, would happen if this battery ran out of juice? You recycle it and go to a vending machine and buy another one. Oh, that’s right, they’d be in vending machines.
The best part is if you buy a new phone, theoretically, you can take the Green Cell Battery out of your old phone and use that — making the new phone cheaper and your life a whole lot easier.
We’re going to have to ask this again — how has no one thought of this yet?
Personally, we love this idea. We love it for its convenience, we love it for its innovation and we love that it means no harmful chemicals in our bathwater — that’s always something we appreciate very much. The main problem is to go from concept to actual working design is that all cell phone creators would have to jump on board and adapt their handsets for the Green Cell Battery to fit. The way these companies work, this will take somewhere between ten and ten thousand years.
Let’s hope we’re wrong, and let’s hope the Green Cell Battery hits the market in the next couple of years — but we wouldn’t hold our breath.
