Chances are you have a shelf of CDs collecting dust somewhere. A design studio partnered with one of the biggest names in music to make them useful. Pentatonic, a design and tech company that focuses ...

After pondering what to do with the ten boxes of DVDs and CDs in storage, I decided to try to use them as ornaments on a fence, a kind of "yard art." It is a tragedy that they are made of various ...

Technological innovation is here to stay. With it comes the struggle to control e-waste and its assault on the environment. So the three co-founders of Nimble for Good, PBC have combined their ...

New research offers a second life for CDs: Turn them into flexible biosensors that are inexpensive and easy to manufacture. New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York offers ...

From “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” to “I Will Survive,” music from 1940 to the year 2000 made up the compact disc wind chime that Senior Ms. Five Hills Dawn Hale created for nursing home residents. “As I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A typical CD storage rack tower - Thomas Nuehnen/Shutterstock Perhaps it's a trick of memory, but it seems like old media formats ...

Fujitsu has announced that it is building a line of laptop PCs from recycled CDs and DVDs. The green initiative reduces the need for new plastic by around 10 tons per year and cuts CO2 emissions by ...

Making a play for the "green" market, one of Sony's new additions is an updated version of the Vaio W Netbook. This time around the upscale 10-inch system is being touted as made from recycled CDs and ...

Sorry to be a party pooper, but the short answer — at least for now — is nowhere we can guarantee. There are a couple of Australian companies which offer to destroy data on CDs and recycle them. The ...

The new Xbox Wireless Controller - Remix Special Edition is being released just in time for Earth Day, with recovered plastics from reclaimed materials making up a third of its physical design. It ...

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York offers a second life for CDs: Turn them into flexible biosensors that are inexpensive and easy to manufacture.