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Brief Description:<\/b><\/p>\n
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The purpose of this project is to create a speaker to eradicate the need to throw old speakers away and purchase new ones, updating them with the times and decreasing the space that speakers would take up in the landfill. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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This solves the important issue of creating less landfill as a result of people\u2019s need to listen to music and watch things on the televisions, etc. and the constant progrogression of technology. I addresses this issue by providing a speaker that can constantly be repaired and updated as technology moves forward. This project solves the ecological issue of constant waste creating by humans by decreasing an individual\u2019s contribution to creating waste.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Human Culture:<\/b><\/p>\n
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This project adds to human culture by providing a greener way to listen to audio and encourages us to fix what is broken, not just throw it away. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The technology this project uses is whatever technology is available. Allowing the user to interact with a modular design whenever they decide to upgrade, or if something breaks.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Ecological Issues:<\/b><\/p>\n
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This product is primarily concerned with how disposable common modern technology is, and the threats that frequent and numerous deposits of tech waste in landfills poses to our ecosystem.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Superficial of Meaningful Response:<\/b><\/p>\n
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The small transparent speaker has a specific intention with its supporters – it wishes to raise awareness and tackle issues regarding the <\/span>temporarity <\/span><\/i>of common modern technology. Oftentimes the disposability of a product is a significant part of the business model surrounding it – why sell someone a product that lasts forever when you can charge them for new and updated versions? Even when something within the product breaks, it\u2019s much more lucrative to sell a new one than to fix the old one. <\/span>People people<\/span><\/i> challenges that claim by creating a product with a sole focus on user repairability. Thus it both addresses and tackles the company executives have recognized.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Design Decisions:<\/b><\/p>\n
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With this product, design is everything. Because the sole intent of the speaker is that it can be taken apart and quickly repaired, it must be designed in such a way that allows the owner to easily take it apart and put it back together. On the surface, the speaker is transparent – because you can see the parts, anyone looking at \u00a0it already has a better understanding of its functionality. Its physical design allows it to be disassembled and reassembled with hands and light tools. Furthermore, the product comes complete with an app that updates the owner if a part breaks, so they can order and replace it ASAP.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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The materials that are used to make the speaker allows for \u201cupcycling\u201d, allowing the original product to be completely restored several times. Instead of buying a whole new speaker, you can send the parts back to be recycled, repaired, and waste no material.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Technology:<\/b><\/p>\n
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This project uses current technology to be retrofitted for the future. It also uses sensors within the speaker to tell you if there\u2019s something wrong, sending a text message to your phone to tell you what\u2019s wrong. It supports the intent in that it is easily replaceable, easy to find out what needs to be fixed, and easy to fix.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Take a look at how a new transparent speaker can help lead the world away from wasteful disposable technology…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":5290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-response3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/Speaker4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5301,"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions\/5301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/206.nmdprojects.net\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}