Mister Jalopy on NPR
posted Jul 14th 2008 4:50pm by Caleb Kraftfiled under: news
[Mister Jalopy] is an outspoken recycler. He believes it is wrong that we live in a “throw away culture” and we here at Hackaday tend to agree. There is so much potential left in products, long after they may have given up their original purpose. He has been pushing to get companies to work with the public, to encourage re purposing and hacking. The belief is that it can only improve a company’s relationship with their customers.
[Mister Jalopy] appeared on National Public Radio today. They discussed the benefits of making your own stuff, as well as the legalities involved with modifying off the shelf products.
We covered his open house last October. Tons of fascinating stuff there.
[via Hoopty Rides]
Companies may get better customer satisfaction with this – however that is not their primary goal. Profits are. The only problem with this is that the re-use of products interrupts their business plan which for most producers is based on periodic replacement.
Posted at 5:54 pm on Jul 14th, 2008 by Chris