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Rowan Students Make Computers Home for
Fish
First the mouse, now fish for your computer
February 6, 2002
Three Rowan University College of Engineering
graduate students have taken an innovative
approach to recycling used computer monitors:
they are turning them into fish tanks.
Brian Fitzpatrick, of Williamstown; Mike
Ciocco, of Franklinville; and Jeremy Neyhart,
of Oreland, PA operate Living Monitor.Com.
The trio takes discarded monitors --
preferably 15-inch ones, but also 17-inch
monitors -- and inserts a pre-made fish tank
and other materials in the casing. The results
are colorful havens for small fish.
The business kicked off last year, and the
group recently has started taking orders for
the fish tanks. Fitzpatrick, a grad student in
mechanical engineering (the others are grad
students in electrical engineering) said he
hopes the effort can be a long-term one.
Costs start at $100 for the 15-inch monitor
and $150 for the 17-inch one, and Fitzpatrick
said the company would need to sell 200 to 300
a month to sustain all three of them. For now,
he plans to look for a full-time job after
completing his degree. "We're looking at this
as a weekend and part-time thing for now,"" he
said.
The company's effort is about more than making
money, however. "We're actually recycling
these instead of (them) going into a landfill.
We're trying to conserve the environment a
little bit," Fitzpatrick said.
"We always wanted to put a fish tank in a
computer," Ciocco said.
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