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Fairphone Fairbuds review: ethically made earbuds with replaceable batteries

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 06:00

Repairable electronics pioneer shows noise-cancelling Bluetooth earbuds do not have to be disposable

Fairphone, the repairable and ethical electronics pioneer, is back with a pair of some of the first Bluetooth earbuds to make it so easy and cheap to replace their batteries that you can do it at home in minutes.

Bluetooth earbuds have become a ubiquitous part of life, driven by the success of Apple’s AirPods. Until now they have all compromised on sustainability by being very difficult to repair, in effect making them disposable.

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Ready meal king Charlie Bigham: ‘I haven’t seen a single benefit from Brexit yet’

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 27 February - 12:00

The man who started making fish pies on his kitchen table served up healthy sales of £133m last year, despite staff and cost issues … and the problem of being outside the EU

There was a time when Charlie Bigham would regularly get calls from customers demanding to know whether he really existed or was just a made-up front for his fresh ready meals company.

Not only is Bigham real – it’s his face on the pack – he is still the majority owner and a full-time worker at the business he began, appropriately enough, at his kitchen table in 1996.