Just like Romeo and Juliet, flies are tragically destined to crave their one true love: Pungent, moldy, rotten garbage. And thanks to this ingenious trash can design that traps flies only to have them starve, the flies’ love can prove just as fatal as Shakespeare’s.
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We all have one—that corner in your living room where the modem, the router, the surge protecter and friends live. It’s a mess. You can try to hide it behind the couch, or you can cover it with unread mail. Or, you could store everything in this handsome wooden container.
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As quickly as it began, the UK’s long national nightmare of spying trash cans is over. Within days of reporting that the city’s "smart bins" would be equipped with smartphone-tracking software, Quartz has confirmed that city officials are shutting the whole thing down.
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Remember the "smart" trash cans that popped up around London a few years ago? Placed throughout the city, the LCD-equipped cans broadcast info and ads (mainly ads) to passersby. Now, the company that makes them is testing new functionality for the two-year-old devices, allowing them to track and analyze the signals from nearby smartphones. How come the worst part of the Minority Report future is the one we get first?
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