toby mckey’s laptop became famous for inadvertently taking and uploading pictures while it was being repaired at some ‘secret’ facility, although in the meantime the photos mysteriously disappeared (the one above was salvaged and purportedly shows a flextronics facility in tennessee). as in airplanes, a ‘black box’ for products could become part their value rather than a liability to manufacturers. imagine if the products you owned had a complete record of where they were and what they saw along the way? sure beats the ‘inspected by’ slip of paper in your jacket pocket…
via tuaw