Talkin' Trash

Ok, talking trash cans aren't new. Hell, we've even seen bins that can flock together and sing. But we still like the potential of living amongst garbage munching animatronic muppets so we'll give this a chance. Talkin' Trash is a concept to sensory enhance the "mundane and gross" kitchen garbage can. By adding a series of weight, touch, motion, and moisture sensors your bin can respond by giggling (inserting a liner), belching (when full), plays taps (when emptied)... yawn (you get the idea). Of real interest to us would be a bar code or RFID reader coupled with an LCD display which could feedback our personal statistics on waste produced over time — cause if you can measure it, you can manage it, dig. Real-time feedback like, "damn dude, lay off the Slim Jims" before signaling the Swash to warm up would also be nice.

[Via BoingBoing]

[Duane @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

Eons ago I remember the story of a guy that put a barcode scanner on his trash, scanned it as it went in, and would post the results. I remember it because a couple days after the story broke about him, there was a note on his site saying "Look, people, please stop emailing me and telling me to eat more fruits and vegetables. Those don't have bar codes."

[Google Nazi @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

"You are what you eat"

Yes... I am a giant walking saucage with cheese all over my back!

Yet, i'm surprized not to see oscar anywhere...

[Josh @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

I'm thinking Marvin the trash can. "A brain the size of a planet and you have me eating your trash. I'm so depressed."

[mitch @ Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM]

OMG, now i have seen it all. One thing, it needs to say "Feed me Seymore, I'm Hungry!" when opened!