The new Xbox controllers are trash. No, literally, they're made of trash.

Microsoft announced the Electrical Volt and Daystrike Camo controllers for the Xbox Series Ten and Xbox Series S today. The controllers feature striking designs and launch on April 27. While the vibrant colors will catch people'due south eyes, another attribute of the controllers is quite interesting, and not so visually obvious.

The two new Xbox Wireless Controllers are the offset to use mail-consumer recycled (PCR) resins. Microsoft highlights this in the blog mail announcing the controllers:

Additionally, our efforts to go more sustainable beyond the Xbox production lifecycle use to Xbox Wireless Controllers. With the new Electric Volt and Daystrike Camo Special Edition controllers, we will be incorporating post-consumer recycled (PCR) resins for the first time in any Xbox hardware. Both controllers volition incorporate a portion of resins made from recycled materials like automotive headlight covers, plastic water jugs, and CDs. Nosotros expect no compromises from these recycled materials either, equally our testing shows the materials provide the same controller durability or operation you lot have come up to look. Nosotros are excited to be taking this side by side step in our delivery to waste reduction and recycling, while still coming upward with innovative new controller designs.

Each of the new controllers will incorporate PCR from recycled materials, such as automotive headlight covers, plastic h2o jugs, and CDs. Who says concrete media is dead? Mayhap some of the discs used to make the controllers will be for old Xbox games.

Despite incorporating recycled materials, Microsoft doesn't look any compromises. The new controllers performed just also and were as durable as previous controllers in Microsoft's testing.

Switching over to PCR resins isn't as simple as pouring in some new materials. As nosotros discussed in our interview with Razer's Patricia Liu, designing products using new materials is an in-depth process.

If you catch one of the new controllers, you should bank check out one of the best Xbox One controller telephone mount clips so you tin game on the go and show off your new gear.

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