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Thursday April 20, 2006
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 So that's where our old floppy disks and diskettes have gone to! Acorn Studios, located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, collects different types of electronics and recycles them into unique creations.
The newest items on their site are the Floppy Disk Notebook ($9.95) and the Diskette Notebook ($6.95). The Floppy Disk Notebook holds 80 pages of plain white recycled paper and is made from 360KB floppy disks (hard to believe that's all they carried, eh?). The Diskette Notebook is a bit smaller and holds 50 pages of paper, held together by old 3.5-inch diskettes. Includes a free pen made from recycled paper, wood, and plastic.
 If you're into jewelry, try the Internecklace/Bracelet ($9.95): It's made by cutting a computer mouse's cable to reveal colorful wires inside. Available colors are Sea Breeze, Sun Fire, Dracular, and Rainbow Sky.
Make sure you check out their other creations, such as a Circuitboard Coaster set, Sparkly CD Clock, and Circuitboard Mouse Pad.
[via PopGadget]
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April 20, 2006 5:45 PM
Oh now that's just cool. Anyone walking around with one of those diskette notebooks or floppy disk notebooks is going to get serious geek cred (or get laughed at, but whatever) and I absolutely have to have one! All things considered, I'm really glad that our old, antiquated (heh-antiquated by what, maybe 5 years or so?) storage media is going to good use. I wonder what people will eventually make from hard drives and hard drive platters when we move away from them as storage devices?
April 20, 2006 8:10 PM
The clocks we used to make out of the 20 meg removeable disk pack platters. The most prized ones where those that showed head crash damage.
April 21, 2006 12:33 PM
That stuff really is great! Thanks for the geeky find!
April 21, 2006 3:26 PM
I'm dissapointed. What about the even older 8" floppies? +Josh+
April 21, 2006 3:27 PM
the 100 baud acoustic modem foot-stool ?
April 21, 2006 4:55 PM
I want Jenny McCarthy's CD / DVD dress!
April 25, 2006 12:03 PM
The originals: http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/17/floppy_disc_notebook.html And 8" versions are sometimes available, depending on availability of the source material.
April 28, 2006 8:42 AM
I've just seen 3.5" floppys sold for 10 bucks per box, I gues that will make a very expensive material for dressing up!! I gues some day we'll se bikinis made from Flash drives, uh!!!