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MultiBin Lets You Tow Your Bin To The Kerb

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2:45PM May 11, 2011 | Nick Broughall

If you’ve ever driven down a semi-rural street on bin night, you may have wondered how people got their bins from their homes to the roadside without walking hundreds of metres (or in some cases, kilometres). The guys from Multi-Bin have developed a pretty convenient solution called the Multi-Bin tow, which lets you tow multimple bins to the kerb without any effort whatsoever. Win! More »


Gadgets

Scrape Table Scraps Into The Portotrash, And Not On The Floor

9:40PM April 15, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Oh man, I need about a dozen of these Portotrash clamps for my house. Try, I guess the clue is in the name – “porto” – but if I’m lazy enough to need an easier way to clean up crap on tables, then I’m lazy enough to want at least a hundred of them. They cost $US20 each, and come with two plastic clamps for surfaces up to 2.5 inches thick. [Quirky via Werd]


A Rubbish Bin With Multi-Sense

6:01AM October 19, 2010 | Jason Chen

I have a rubbish bin in my kitchen with an automatic sensor. It’s great most of the time, but I have to walk widely around it, lest my arse continuously trigger the lid. But now Simplehuman has multi-sense. MULTI-SENSE. More »


Gadgets

New Aussie Invention Lets You Move Two Wheelie Bins – AT THE SAME TIME!

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1:30PM October 11, 2010 | Nick Broughall

In a completely rubbish statistic that I just made up, 98% of all Australian inventions are designed for the sole purpose of getting us milliseconds closer to beer. Take this multi-bin creation from South Australian inventor Mark Bradshaw, that allows users to wheel out not one, but two wheelie bins at the same time, therefore reducing the amount of time spent taking out the rubbish before cracking a beer. More »


Science

Recycling Bin Knows When You’re Not Using It (And Fines You For It)

8:40AM September 9, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

We’ve heard the promise: In the future, everything’s connected. But when Cleveland, Ohio, rolls out its new RFID-enabled recycling bins next year – ones that know if you’re using them and report you if you’re not – you might long to disconnect. More »


DustPan+Bin Fits In Your Tiny IKEA Apartment

9:00PM May 11, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

It’s a dustpan! It’s a bin! It’s DustPan+Bin! A smart and pretty idea for those who live in a small apartment and don’t have a vacuum cleaner. [Lufdesign via Core77]


Geek Out

Dog-Shaped Dog Poop Composter Just Looks Wrong

12:40AM May 7, 2009 | Adam Frucci

It seems to me that there’s something gross about making a dog poop composter shaped like a dog, a design that makes you put dog poop into a dog’s mouth.

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All-In-One Recycling Centre Puts Everything in its Right Place

11:00AM February 11, 2009 | Adrian Covert

For those out there who obsess about keeping the recycling separate from the normal trash, your chariot has arrived.

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Tri3 Trash Can Recycles Your Waste Stylishly

6:00PM January 15, 2009 | Elaine Chow

The Tri3 trashcan stacks three cans together to make recycling even easier than normal. It’s also much neater, and more stylish, than my solution of throwing recyclables into a heap in the kitchen corner.

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Gadgets

London Getting Bomb-Proof, News-Delivering Trash Cans

1:20AM November 1, 2008 | Adam Frucci

In London, public trash cans are hard to come by, as they’re an easy receptacle for bombs. Which makes it hard to throw things away properly! Now, the city is going to bring trash cans back, but they’re going to be big, hulking masses, totally bomb-proof and equipped with LCD screens to tell you the days news as you throw away your coffee cup.

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