Mobile Phone Sprouts Sunflowers

// December 1st, 2004 // General // 1,324 views

According to ABC News Online: “Soon you may be able to plant your old mobile phone handset and watch it grow into a flower.

Engineers at the University of Warwick in central England said they had developed a mobile phone case or cover with a seed embedded inside that, when discarded, can be planted in compost where it will disintegrate.

The invention appears to have been a success, with prototype telephones sprouting dwarf sunflowers.

Good news for our tree-hugging friends out there. Just imagine, soon there’ll be plantations of the stuff. Freaky throught. Any comments?

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