Sustainable see-through speaker by People People alerts user when parts need replacing
This transparent speaker has built-in sensors that detect when parts need to be replaced, repaired or updated, and notifies users via their smartphones.
The Small Transparent Speaker was designed and launched on Kickstarter by Stockholm studio People People. It is intended as a reaction against excessive consumer waste, particularly electronic waste.
"Consumer products are too quickly becoming waste and mostly dumped in landfills," the studio said.
"There is a full football field of electronic waste generated every minute. This linear system has to stop."
According to the designers, every speaker purchased is "helping to promote a closed-loop industry where products and their materials have the potential to last forever." Made completely from recycled materials, the speaker can be totally disassembled to allow for each specific part to be replaced.
If it should need repairing, users are alerted and instructed on what to do via an app on their smartphone.
Broken products that can't be repaired at home would be sent back to the manufacturers to be looked at more closely. To allow this, they would be encased in packaging that can be refolded to expose the prepaid return shipping label.
"Even though it might seem unusual and counterintuitive to talk about scenarios of product failure now when the product is brand new, we believe that is exactly what we need to do," said People People.
"By considering potential ways the pr...
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