Robotic Bins and Benches in Cambridge 138
OldBus writes "According to the BBC robotic bins and benches have been installed in Cambridge. According to the article, they 'move and chuckle' and 'sing when the sun comes out.'" From the article: "Mr Bogen hopes the cutting edge technology would help keep the bins and benches safe from theft. The Junction has a three year maintenance contract with Greyworld and plans to name all the bins and benches individually to make carrying out repairs easier."
Large-scale irritation (Score:5, Interesting)
I'll let you know what they're like... (Score:3, Interesting)
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Toby
Re:A good hack would be to give them Dalek voices. (Score:2, Interesting)
Thiefs wont want to.. (Score:2, Interesting)
steal pointless crazy stuff like this, they have no re-sale value (I doubt the components are that expensive, most of the £110k was probably development time and research etc.). Then I saw this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/10/kidnapped_ dalek/ [theregister.co.uk]
Somebody stole a pointless crazy thing (e.g. a rare original dalek from the Dr.Who series) and their trying to ransom it back..
Putting £110 worth of equipment anywhere in most places in the UK and not bolting it to the ground is always a bad thing...
Re:Large-scale irritation (Score:1, Interesting)
I bet people would throw away every bit of trash they could find (and perhaps some things that aren't trash
It's not a pleasant commentary on humanity, but I bet it would work better than singing to greet the sunrise!