Overheard in the tech blogosphere

Oct 13 2007   3:12PM GMT

Overheard: If you get the lead out, the tin man will have 5 o’clock shadow



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Technology, tin whiskers, Green computing
dr_richard_north.jpg “To prevent lead from being incinerated or accumulating in landfills after electronic devices have been disposed of, the health and safety zealots have not so much thrown — as hurled — the baby out with the bathwater.”

Dr. Richard North, Whiskers!


Agree or disagree? We should allow lead to be used in electronic devices.

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