Feed them trash, which will be turned into tweets. via Facebook “Garbage in, garbage out” wasn’t a phrase invented for the internet, but it’s a pretty good descriptor of it nonetheless. So of course it makes sense that in the near future, New York City’s garbage cans could be providing Wi-Fi connectivity according to CityLab. This way when you’re out in public, you’ll be able scroll through Instagram and everyone’s bad tweets, without running your battery down to the point where you jump onstage at a Broadway play to try to charge your phone. You might remember that the city was already planning on turning our old decrepit pay phones into wifi hotspots, but apparently that didn’t have enough symbolism baked into it. So the Downtown Alliance partnered with Bigbelly, the makers of solar-powered “smart garbage cans” that already have fancy computer sensors in them, to put Wi-Fi hotspots in two of… Read More
