{"id":958051,"date":"2025-08-28T07:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958051"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:56:11","slug":"old-things-work-argentines-giving-new-life-to-e-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/28\/old-things-work-argentines-giving-new-life-to-e-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Old things work&#8217;: Argentines giving new life to e-waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buenos Aires: Need a new gaming console? Just make one yourself with an old ventilator. Got an old payment terminal? Turn it into a camera. <\/p>\n<p>These are just some of the creations of Argentina&#8217;s Cyber Dumpster Divers, a collective of ingenious tech aficionados who turn e-waste into new products. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We experiment with technology by trying to recycle it and repurpose items that other people would simply throw away,&#8221; said Esteban Palladino, a musician who goes by the pseudonym Uctumi on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buenos Aires: Need a new gaming console? Just make one yourself with an old ventilator. Got an old payment terminal? Turn it into a camera. These are just some of the creations of Argentina&#8217;s Cyber Dumpster Divers, a collective of ingenious tech aficionados who turn e-waste into new products. &#8220;We experiment with technology by trying to recycle it and repurpose items that other people would simply throw away,&#8221; said Esteban Palladino, a musician who goes by the pseudonym Uctumi on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}