The city of Berlin announced this week that it will be installing electronics into some of it's trashcans so that when people throw things away the trashcan will talk to them, mostly saying "thank you." Evidently Berlin has a huge problem with people throwing their trash in the streets, and are under the impression that if something talks to them the fine people of Berlin will be more inclined to throw their trash at it. A city official also noted that the devices are solar powered, so they're cheap to power and they won't talk after dark. "Some people might feel uncomfortable if these things said something to them at night," the official said. Personally, I would feel uncomfortable with a trashcan taking to me in German no matter what time of day it was. But that's just me!