#Consumer electronics

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To build all of the solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, and other technologies necessary to fight climate change, we’re going to need a lot more metals. Mining those metals from the Earth creates damage and pollution that threaten ecosystems and communities. But there’s another potential source of the copper, nickel, aluminum, and rare-earth minerals needed to stabilize the climate: the mountain of electronic waste humanity discards each year. 

Exactly how much of each clean energy metal is there in the laptops, printers, and smart fridges the world discards? Until recently, no one really knew. Data on more obscure metals like neodymium and palladium, which play small but critical roles in established and emerging green energy technologies, has been especially hard to come by.

Now, the United Nations has taken a first step toward filling in these data gaps with the latest installment of its periodic report on e-waste around the world. Released last month, the new Global E-Waste Monitor shows the staggering scale of the e-waste crisis, which reached a new record in 2022 when the world threw out 62 million metric tons of electronics. And for the first time, the report includes a detailed breakdown of the metals present in our electronic garbage, and how often they are being recycled.

“There is very little reporting on the recovery of metals [from e-waste] globally,” lead report author Kees Baldé told Grist. “We felt it was our duty to get more facts on the table.”

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Omega Radio for August 31, 2020; #239.

Consumer Electronics “The Weight”, “Afterfits”

Milat “Kampuchea”

Pod Blotz “Glass Bodies”

Æþel Electronics  “Muddy”, “Enaepling”

Bastard Noise & Guilty Connector “Decimation Cycle”

Hanatarash “Web Wig”

Nurse With Wound “Nil By Mouth”

Guilt Attendant “Do Your Part New York City”

Lutkie “It Reckons”

Anenzephalia “Abiding Broadcast Contamination”

Himukalt “Don’t”

Terror Cell Unit “When The Chickens Come Home To Roost”

Valentina Artaud / Monochromatica “Improvisación Concreta Number 1″, “El Canibalismo Es La Unica Opcion Etica“

JS Aurelius “Emergency Contact Line”

Lana Del Rabies “Chapel (Regret)” (Nicole Dollanger RMX), “Gave Up”

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Slow Murder “Special Interest 2″

False Maria “A Song For Luca”

Moonbeam Terror “I Repeat”

Ritual Chair “Isn’t My Pain And Suffering Enough?”

Thee Un-Kommuniti “Spurt White / Cut Black”

Pharmakon “Spit It Out”

John Wiese “Recorded Hologram”

Prurient “Spring Birds Die In Uniform Pockets”

Double Leopards “Sound Holes”

Kazuma Kubota “Wasurenagusa”

Reynols “10,000 Chickens”

Pete Swanson “Αναστενάρια  RMX”

Merzbow & Keiji Haino & Balazs Pandi “Become The Discoverer, Not The Discovered Pt. I“

Lingua Ignota “Above Us Only Sky”

Bonus Omega; all noise.

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Radio Queen. Radiolympia Trade & Consumer Show - 1939.

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consumer electronics / merzbow -- korean comfort

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Electrical shop on the corner of Péceli road and Anna street, Budapest, 1966. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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Sony Pulse Australia - April 2006

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we don't appreciate solar powered calculators enough. perfect design. you know they would love to make them all use replaceable batteries instead

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Okay serious question

Who the hell even buys $1000+ smartphones??

Or even phones that are less pricey than that, but still super expensive. My phone set me back like 200€, and does literally everything I need to.

Sure, phones in that price range are very nice and if you'd give me one for free I wouldn't say no, but. Who actually buys them?

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Omega Radio for August 20, 2018; #171.

Whitehouse “Philosophy”

Knurl “Scyamine”

Pedestrian Deposit “Svelte”

Gas Station Of Love “Residentially Challenged”

Gerogerigegege, The “Criminal Passion”

Carlos Giffoni “No More Air”

Diana Rogerson “Two Hot Pricks”

Secret Boyfriend “Summer Of Fear” , “Carved At Night”

Merzbow “Tony Williams Deathspace”

Sudden Infant RRRecords 500 untitled loop

Z’ev “I” (flexidisc)

Bill Orcutt “Collective Action”

Flying Testicle “Hit Kit Party”

Ames Sanglantes “Cult Of Stalin”

Unsustainable Social Condition “Conflagration”

Boyd Rice / NON “Everlasting Fire”

Sutcliffe Jugend “Queen Myra”

Hijokaidan “No-Titled”

Deterge “Throbbing”

M.B. (Maurizio Bianchi) “Sordide Sentimental”

Cock ESP “I Left My Cock In San Francisco”

Genocide Organ “Slap In The Face”

Pan Daijing “Overdose”

Pharmakon “No Natural Order”

Puce Mary “Slow Agony Of A Dying Orgasm”

John Wiese “Harpsichord”

Wolf Eyes “Always Wrong”

Aaron Dilloway & John Weise “Total Eclipse”

Manon Anne Gillis & GX Jupitter-Larsen “Encored Dust”

Bastard Noise “Antenna Galaxies, The”

Japanese Torture Comedy Hour “Cremaster”

Yamatsuka Eye “Mega Equipment For Popsicle”

Hanatarashi, The “Apartheid Fun Club”

Consumer Electronics “Filthy Art”

Con-Dom “Crawl”

Prurient “Palm Tree Corpse” (demo)

Masonna “Epistle To Dippy”

Nick Klein “American Stomach”

Ramleh “Product Of Fear”

Jessica Rylan “Way Home”, “Wishing Well”

Aube “Parametalizest 1 & 2”

Bonus noise. One of Omega's most popular broadcasts.

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Car CD players, 1987

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Electrolux Group Wins 11 iF Awards for Outstanding Product Design

Electrolux Group has won 11 coveted iF Design Awards for products designed to improve the daily lives of consumers in the home. The iF Design Awards jury recognized Electrolux Group for many aspects of design, including user interface.  The iF Design Award is one of the most prominent design prizes in the world. This year, the competition received around 11,000 entries from 100 countries. The…