Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process.
Evgeny Morozov
Related You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history. PAT BENATAR When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash. JIM DAVIS You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you. LADAINIAN TOMLINSON The trash that I am throwing out of my car window is landing somewhere that is not a trash bin. SALMAN KASBATI I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you... LL COOL J So do you come here often?” he asked in a slightly self-mocking way. I couldn't help myself—I sm... ALLY CARTER This is me, remember?" retorts Suze. "I know what you're like! You used to throw all your bank state... SOPHIE KINSELLA Facebook is looking to help you distribute content to who you want to distribute to. Facebook gets a... ROBERT SCOBLE All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD One thing I've learned through all the ups and downs is that if you're doing things right, t... HOPE SOLO Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find y... BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance... RICHARD STALLMAN It's for a better cause. It's for increasing recycling and getting trash off the side of the road. A... JENNIFER PERRONE Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands... AARON SORKIN The answer to global hunger is on the streets of New York inside a trash bin. ADAM WEISSMAN Go ahead, throw this book away. Spit on me. Revile me. I dare you. Cast me out of your intellectual ... ANNE RICE I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, ... GARY VAYNERCHUK Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are ... HARRISON BIRTWISTLE I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find polit... E. P. THOMPSON I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like... LIL WAYNE If Facebook gets your entire social graph, you don't necessarily want to share everything with y... ASHTON KUTCHER Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your ... GREEN DAY Sometimes, instead of being hurt, you should look at betrayal as a gift. It makes it that much easie... DONNA SCHOENROCK Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships,... SEAN PARKER There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their ow... ROBERT MANKOFF When you get into a car, and there's trash, or it's dirty, or one of the hubcaps is off, you... T. J. MILLER It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poet... QUINCY JONES There's a problem of where do you put all this trash? CAROL LANG I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal... KATHRYN HAHN You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, b... COLIN FARRELL The future is trash. Recycling it, re-arranging it. Making it beautiful again. CHRIS CAMPANIONI It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I should meet and go over all of the bases. How many grass services would be used, how much trash wo... DENNIS RITTENHOUSE Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's cal... DREW CAREY I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great somet... GABRIEL MANN Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't... MAJORA CARTER Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like... RUTH ANN MINNER It's a community of Madden lovers. We had guys saying, 'Oh your league is trash, we would own you gu... ISRAEL CHARLES Your greatest accomplishments, no matter how impressive you think them to be, are some else's worst ... JESSICA HAGY Let me trash your love FALL OUT BOY The problem with items is that someone has to pick through them to find the gems and discard the tra... LESLIE JOHNSON It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who kn... LEONARDO DICAPRIO Dare to follow your own paths. Dare to be yourself. Dare to be different. LAILAH GIFTYAKITA I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and t... JASON RITTER It's often said that costume designers are a faceless group of people. But we can contribute to ... COLLEEN ATWOOD It's just that all the people that were picking up trash started picking up trash together. CAROLINE BRADFORD You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought w... DAN CHAON Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right n... T. J. MILLER Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your frie... EDGAR RAMIREZ The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of ... CARLO RATTI The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from ho... JENNIFER ANISTON When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it'... BRUCE WILLIS I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and g... RANDY JOHNSON The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your he... WATT KEY There are people in your past that you can't shake free from no matter how hard you tried. There... RUTA GEDMINTAS A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else ... VERA NAZARIAN The truth is that most of your Facebook friends are too busy counting their own 'likes' to p... MEGHAN DAUM What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling ... COREY HAIM You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can p... BRYAN SINGER It's like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they ra... MICHELLE OBAMA I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best. TOWNES VAN ZANDT If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background... SAMI GAYLE Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of r... PENELOPE CRUZ Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part fo... MARTINA NAVRATILOVA If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of ... JIMMY FALLON While you're going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend... JEAN CHATZKY Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender... GEORGE CARLIN I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're ... GAYLE FORMAN Before I forget, here's your homework. Where do you want me to put it?" She pointed at the tras... BECCA FITZPATRICK I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's... ALVIN LEE I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every... HAILEY BALDWIN Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discoverin... IAN MCKELLEN A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that ... LISA KLEYPAS You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that'... LEWIS HOWES Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - it's talk... You ask any pl... JASON BABIN All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausib... MICHAEL MORITZ 'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cata... BONNIE RAITT I would say trust your own judgment and develop your own style that is true in your heart and don... JUSTIN HAYWARD When you come from a big family, you see that, growing up, you're learning how to share. Your si... GISELE BUNDCHEN I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and... DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create yo... TERENCE MCKENNA Spending all that money for a one-day hit is a fool's errand. If you're smart, you use your Super Bo... GARY STIBEL If you think of the old days of investigation, your evidence might be in a filing cabinet, and you w... MARCUS ROGERS People's curses will become your clue to win. The trash they think you have will become the treasure... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR There's nothing like white trash at the White House. DOLLY PARTON I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in ... MICHELLE OBAMA The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE When you go through some controversy and you see your face on the news in a negative way for 48 hour... STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL When you meet your friends, especially, you notice how different you are. Everything from your cloth... JOEY SANTIAGO
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