Digital Home Thoughts: Engadgets Impressions Of The Recompute Cardboard PC

"We took delivery of a Recompute recently. This doesn't sound like a stunning statement: we get fancy new tech to play with all of the time, some of it stamped with the "green" moniker for better or worse. But the Recompute is just so far fetched: an entire desktop PC... built with cardboard! Sure, the internals are standard off-the-shelf PC components, but from the outside Recompute looks like nothing we've ever seen, and that's really saying something for a desktop industry that's tried just about every look twice. Check out our impressions of the green machine after the break."

I love the idea of this cardboard PC but part of me rebels against a case that's not metal. Cardboard has always been a decent insulating material, hence why my pizza comes in a cardboard box, so I hope this has got some good cooling. Heat worries aside, the green credentials of the case are great and I assume there is potential for them to create a case in any shape or size in the future. It's certainly one to watch, I just wonder whether it will generate a big enough market to keep going.