Fujitsu of Japan has hit CES with a bang, featuring in its display a laptop with a plastic case made from corn rather than petroleum products.

As noted in SoftPedia…

The manufacturing process needed to make this kind of plastic is more costly than the traditional oil to plastic process, but the end product is as green as we will ever see: put it away in a landfill and it will just disintegrate in a few months. In contrast, plastic made from oil will take some decades to go away. Another good point for the corn to plastic manufacturing process is that it will cut some of the carbon emissions and according to some with as much as 15 percent.

What’s next from Fujitsu, beyond hopefully bringing this stuff to our side of the world? Castor beans!