LINC concept leases you a phone, recycles for later use

The standard procedure for cellphone ownership goes something along these lines. Buy the phone, use the phone, break the phone, toss the phone. Such a waste of materials! LINC offers a phone which provides a leased service, rather than a owned good. Every year or so, users are sent new hardware from LINC, at which point the users send their old devices back to the company, where the phones are dissembled and parts reused.

All data and personal phone information is transfered digitally to the new device so you can just start using it right when you get it, instead of having to re-add all of your contacts every year. The phone is automatically dissembled in one easy step and then divided into core parts for recycling. [Photo Gallery]