Irish company MicroPro invents world’s first biodegradable computer

THEY might look like small birdhouses, but the small wooden boxes are more likely to contain CPUs than cuckoos.

An Irish company, MicroPro Computers, is the inventor of the world’s first biodegradable computer which it hopes will convert computer owners green.

The Iameco computers, which are designed and assembled in Ireland, are free of many of the harmful materials contained in conventional desktops as well as heavy metals like lead, cadmium and mercury. The company, which employs more than 20 staff at its headquarters in Dublin, uses aluminium, wood and renewable wood casings to help minimise the amount of plastic used in the construction of its computers.