The Bottomless Ink Cartridge
From the extensive archive of repair culture at Jan Chipcase's blog Future Perfect comes these two glimpses of street vendors filling a need. The need is for cheap ink jet cartridges. Why not refill them while U wait?
Here an ink refiller works in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
This shop operates in New Delhi, India.
This is pretty environmentally friendly!
Do you agree???
Though the Printer Manufacturers would do anything to convince us that this shall KILL the printer that way!
What do you have to say about it!
Posted by Ra. on October 4, 2006 at 4:15 AMIn Mexico, and I would suppose that in most of the developing world, this type of shops have become business chains. This is one: http://www.maxtoner.com/
Posted by ivan s. on October 12, 2006 at 5:10 PMPost a Comment
In 1988 I visited China.
Posted by gmoke on October 4, 2006 at 12:19 AMOne evening, I walked out of the White Crane Hotel
on Shamian Island and crossed the bridge
into the city of Guangzhou.
There I saw a line of men
standing behind small folding tables
in closed shop doorways.
Coming closer, I saw that they were rebuilding and
reselling
plastic "disposable" lighters.
I want a solar rechargeable reading light
just like that,
some combination of a
solar electric chip, LED and button battery
as cheap, adaptable, and readily available
as a disposable cigarette lighter.
We need to make it possible
for every child around the world
to read in bed
and dream.