May I have some garbage please?, Sustain-o-Bin

When was the last time you stamped mercilessly on the dustbin to open its lid? Or let us make it worse, when was the last time the cleaniliness bug bit you and you desperatly ran in search of a dustbin to dispose off that coke can? Too many instances to remember.
That’s precisely why six geniuses at IIT-Bombay cam up with the most interesting piece of waste disposal ever – an interactive dustbin. At a time when pretty much everything in the house is turning to the interactive mode, it is high time that the dustbin took a similar route. So how does this one work anyway?

Developed by six students from the Industrial Design Centre (IDC) at IIT, Bombay, the interactive dustbin approaches people and requests them to pit trash into it. To top it off, the bin says a polite “Thank you” as well. The design team of Ajay Mittal, Aniket Sarangdhar, Aniruddha Kadam, Mandar Sarnaik, Saurabh Srivastava and Shaswath V have given it a eco-friendly name too - Sustain-o-Bin. The name owes a lot to the materials which went into the construction of the product. Designed and developed as a course project and it was later chosen for an international design conference on sustainability.

The body of the dustbin was made from cardboard boxes and newspapers giving it the bio-degradable status. But don’t let the low-tech body take your eyes off the hi-tech gadgetry which makes it the most attention-grabbing dustbin on the planet. What does the job in the mobility department  is team of three sensors which control the wheels of the bin. The sensors detect the nearest person and directs wheels towards him/her and requests for trash disposal.

It sounds as cool as weird it is to have a dustbin follow you around like a pet. As long as stinking waste is kept away from it,  no one would mind to have a cardboard box accompanying him/her around the house. To make sure that the Sustain-o-Bin doesn’t wander off, the engineers have added a sensor to keep it within a predetermined perimeter. So that’ll be a leash on this unusal pet.


Source: Namasteshopper.com