If it was anywhere near the first of April, we’d think this is a joke, but it’s not. A materials company, Pvaxx Research & Development, and the University of Warwick in the UK have developed a biodegradable polymer and used it in a prototype cellphone case. The cover of the case has an actual sunflower seed embedded in it. Theoretically, when you’re trading up to a new phone, you plant the cover of the case and it provides nutrients to the seed as the gigantic sunflower grows up in the center of your neighbors’ front lawn (their fussy Lawn Doctored expanse o’ pristine green REALLY needed a whole lot o’ somethin’). Of course, the rest of your phone goes to a landfill on the southside of town where it leaches out heavy metals into the municipal water supply while the “green” cover is grabbing all the media attention on CNN.
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