Digital Trash Meets Physical Trash

Core77.com is my new favorite read. Thanks to them, I’m seeing the CagninaDesign Tempo external wireless Trash Can.

Deleted files get transferred wirelessly to the can. The can, of course, has physical cues to tell you how full it is. Very cool. I’d just hate to see someone delete a giant 5GB ISO or something and wait for hell to freeze over while they transferred that via Bluetooth to the can. Ugh.

But still, I like the bridge between the virtual (digital) and physical worlds. Hrm. Come to think of it, that might even be a good senior capstone project for our students? I’d like to see one that is just an indicator of how much trash you have in your computer’s Recycle Bin or Trash. Toss in some interesting iconic representations of metadata — like file type, size, freshness — and you could have an interesting little desktop Trash that could give you some insight into what digital scrap you’re creating.