June 11th, 2005 @ 7:09 pm
wandering furniture
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Street furniture seeks to catch you on the hop
apparently there are solar powered benches and trash bins that have wheels and computers for speech synthesis
when its sunny, they move about and chatter (the bins like to talk more than the benches)
The one thing the bins can’t do is accept rubbish. Signs will soon be installed politely requesting people not to feed the bins.
However, they do also sing. “They are particularly interested in barbershop, it suits their personalities,” Mr Shoben said.
At certain times of day, they will all gather together to sing in unison. But only the bins, obviously, not the benches - that would just be silly.
I want some!
