With the Consumer Electronics Show only a few days away, we can expect an array of smart home appliances to make their debut on the showroom floor. However, most of them will be a new generation of previously seen devices and only a few consist of genuine innovation. Among these, you can count GeniCan and Eugene as the world’s first smart trash can devices.
As much as we like to disregard our garbage, it plays an important role in our lives. An analysis of a person’s garbage can tell a lot about a person, their lifestyle, and diet. The way we deal with our trash, whether we recycle it or not is just as important. Thanks to GeniCan and Eugene, all these tasks can be easily managed.
GeniCan is a Wi-Fi enabled device which can be easily attached to the side of your trash can or recycling bins. If features a barcode scanner so that when you’re about to discard the package of a certain product, you can allow GeniCan to scan it and add it to your shopping list. The device even has a microphone for voice recognition, so you can easily add a product which doesn’t have a barcode.
The device is managed through an Android or iOS app. This is where you can find your shopping lists, which can be shared with anyone in your family. The app even allows the device to order items automatically using Amazon’s Dash Replenishment program. GeniCan will be released in early 2017, at a price of $150, with pre-orders available now at $125.
Another new smart trash device similar to GeniCan is Eugene. It has mostly the same functions as GeniCan, with one more extra functionality developed for environmentally-concerned people. Eugene is developed by Uzer and its another Wi-Fi enabled scanner that reads your trash. However, when it does so, besides adding to a shopping list, it also informs you if you can recycle that specific container. The mobile app of Eugene will inform you of how much energy you’ve saved by recycling.
The developers of Eugene have stated that the device will be released in the US and the UK by the end of 2017 at a price $99.
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