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How many Cobs does your CD hold?

New eco-friendly disc

         

photon

9:43 pm on Nov 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Giving a new meaning to the term grassroots music, Pioneer Corp. said it had developed a next-generation disc made of corn to let the eco-conscious consumer dispose of data in the soil.

From here [story.news.yahoo.com].

mivox

10:06 pm on Nov 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Great! Now all we need to do is convince AOL to use those for their neverending flood of junk mail disks. :-) I'd love to be able to burn them with an environmentally clean conscience!

faltered

4:08 pm on Nov 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I don't know, this seems too wacky. What if someone got hungry and popped it in the microwave?

I wonder how secure these really are.

Milamber

9:13 pm on Nov 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Its like next-gen rice cakes or something.