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Chucking plastic for a bamboo keyboard
Source: Xinhua |
April 21, 2009, Tuesday
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EIGHT hours of computer work every day is very boring, but Zhang Keli has found a welcome respite from office chores - a bamboo keyboard.
"It's a novelty to me," said 28-year-old Zhang, a fashion-loving employee of the Jianshou Advertisement Co Ltd. She works in the eastern Chinese city of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, the "hometown" of bamboo.
She just bought a bamboo keyboard to replace the plastic board for her home computer a few days ago.
"I have fun whenever I press the bamboo buttons, which gives me a feeling of gentleness and eases my tension and fatigue from work," she said.
"What's more, I think it's sort of environment-friendly, a green product," she said.
As hi-tech brings conveniences and also pollution to the modern world, people who have a keen awareness of ecological protection are looking for green ways of living to offset the negative impact of advanced technologies.
Although the bamboo keyboard is virtually unknown to most computer users, it is nevertheless gaining popularity.
"We've delivered 20,000 bamboo keyboards to wholesalers, and another 20,000 orders are awaiting delivery," said Zhang Lina, a sales manager of the Jiangqiao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co Ltd, the sole producer of bamboo keyboard in China. The company is in Jiangxi's Tonggu County that has abundant bamboo groves.
The idea of manufacturing bamboo keyboards came from a business talk the company had with an electronics company from Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, in 2005, when the Shenzhen company's general manager suggested the Jiangqiao company manufacture computer boards made of bamboo, said Feng Chun, a technician of the Jiangqiao company.
"We have been developing such a product ever since," Feng said.
"Of course, we had to broke through a series of technical difficulties over three years, such as how to prevent the bamboo keyboard frame from cracking, how to prevent the bamboo bottom plate from distorting and how to make bamboo buttons firmly linked with the main board," he said.
The new product has also won applause from computer and woodcraft experts.
"The degradability of the keyboard can be enhanced with the substitution of bamboo for plastics, so it's environment-friendly, " said Professor Zhu Zhenghou, from the School of Materials Science and Engineering with Nanchang University.
"It can bring computer users a unique feeling: cool in the summer while warm in the winter. In addition, it can prevent static electricity, and the bamboo fibers can absorb ultraviolet radiation," he said.
Computer users might have seen keyboards whose frames are made of bamboo or wood on the market, but such a computer keyboard completely made of bamboo, including its frame and buttons, is rarely seen worldwide.
"It's a novelty to me," said 28-year-old Zhang, a fashion-loving employee of the Jianshou Advertisement Co Ltd. She works in the eastern Chinese city of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, the "hometown" of bamboo.
She just bought a bamboo keyboard to replace the plastic board for her home computer a few days ago.
"I have fun whenever I press the bamboo buttons, which gives me a feeling of gentleness and eases my tension and fatigue from work," she said.
"What's more, I think it's sort of environment-friendly, a green product," she said.
As hi-tech brings conveniences and also pollution to the modern world, people who have a keen awareness of ecological protection are looking for green ways of living to offset the negative impact of advanced technologies.
Although the bamboo keyboard is virtually unknown to most computer users, it is nevertheless gaining popularity.
"We've delivered 20,000 bamboo keyboards to wholesalers, and another 20,000 orders are awaiting delivery," said Zhang Lina, a sales manager of the Jiangqiao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co Ltd, the sole producer of bamboo keyboard in China. The company is in Jiangxi's Tonggu County that has abundant bamboo groves.
The idea of manufacturing bamboo keyboards came from a business talk the company had with an electronics company from Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, in 2005, when the Shenzhen company's general manager suggested the Jiangqiao company manufacture computer boards made of bamboo, said Feng Chun, a technician of the Jiangqiao company.
"We have been developing such a product ever since," Feng said.
"Of course, we had to broke through a series of technical difficulties over three years, such as how to prevent the bamboo keyboard frame from cracking, how to prevent the bamboo bottom plate from distorting and how to make bamboo buttons firmly linked with the main board," he said.
The new product has also won applause from computer and woodcraft experts.
"The degradability of the keyboard can be enhanced with the substitution of bamboo for plastics, so it's environment-friendly, " said Professor Zhu Zhenghou, from the School of Materials Science and Engineering with Nanchang University.
"It can bring computer users a unique feeling: cool in the summer while warm in the winter. In addition, it can prevent static electricity, and the bamboo fibers can absorb ultraviolet radiation," he said.
Computer users might have seen keyboards whose frames are made of bamboo or wood on the market, but such a computer keyboard completely made of bamboo, including its frame and buttons, is rarely seen worldwide.
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