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There is an afterlife for discarded obsolete electronic equipment like netbooks and
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A project by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) tracked used computers
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document their ‘second life’, sending us images and GPS coordinates from remote
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reflection on our society’s relationship with our electronic devices," said the team behind
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the project, dubbed "Backtalk".
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According to the research team, it focused on two common scenarios that apply to
obsolete electronics: e-waste disposal in urban centers, and the reuse of functioning
devices in developing countries.
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"By collecting information form these devices we set out to investigate one of today’s
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key unknown stories – that of global e-waste," it said.
A report on CNET said that the MIT Senseable City Lab researchers sent refurbished
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With the new owners' consent, the MIT team set up the "discarded" computers to take
images and record their locations, then send the data to MIT.
The CNET report said the researchers used the open-source anti-theft software "Prey" to
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capture the data. The software records a computer's GPS coordinates and takes a
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