Is it just me, or is it scary that the iSight camera contains so many toxic materials? I actually feel slightly unsafe with it now.

I'm reading from the article that the iSight built into the notebooks and the iMac don't have these hazardous materials that prompted the banned/discontinued products in Europe?

There's nothing really good there except for the Airport, and personally I wouldn't bother with that, you've got Airport Express. And who needs an iSight when they're all built in now?

Maybe..... call me crazy, but does Apple's apparent lack of concern for making the Airport meet the standards indicate that they may refresh the airport soon? When's 802.11n supposed to be out?????

I suspect these products are those which haven't had a design refresh recently enough and/or don't meet the volume requirements to make redesign without toxic materials cost effective.

And let's be real folks they have to stop selling the products if it contains just one of the materials listed, the fact that they have to stop selling them doesn't mean that all the materials are present. Likely they are manufactured with parts that have lead solder in them.

I would be curious to know which other products, from companies other than Apple, will be affected?

This isn't really a problem a_greer is right, there surely will be a refresh coming.

My electronics parts catalogs have been dual listing many items, even LED's in both compliant, and noncompliant versions for a while now. /the US has its own version, but as usual, ours is somewhat different.

This mostly affects the disposal of the products rather than their being a hazard while in use.

Just to put Robin Hood's mind to rest (if not moral concerns) the risk from these materials is as they enter the enviroment on mass after use, making ethical disposal difficult, not actually during use. So as long as you aree careful about how you disspose of your iSight there should be nothing to be worried about.