Top 10 finalist at 2009’s Core77’s Greener Gadgets Contest, Brendon Macacluso and his Recompute project astouned audiencing with their sleek design of their cardboard computer case.
Another great achievement of this innovative gadget, is that the Museum of Industrial Archaelogy and Textile in Belgium has added it to their display and the section it has been added to focuses on the evolution of the industrial age and a “glance into the future”.
The main focus of this computer case, is sustainability .
They are starting producting in this year of this computer case, and have a couple of options available for buying your own machine:
- PREcompute
- DIY kit, you get the cardboard and a power supply
- around $72
- Recompute LNX
- The Linux community have approached the Recompute guys to bring out a machine, with Ubuntu 9.10 pre installed. Hardware would be able to support Fedora 12 and Linux Mint as well.
- around $480
- Recompute Standard and Deluxe
- Turnkey machine running Windows 7 64-bit (Home(Standard) / Professional(Deluxe))
- around $800 – $1200
The price of $72 is not too bad for the case and a 400W power supply, taking some guys spend thousands of rands pimping their boxes – this one will definitely stand out in the crowd.
Be sure to check out Recompute’s website.