This trash bin can drive to the curb and back - CNET

The invention would save a lot of hassle. You could stand in your nice comfy house, and with a few pushes on a joystick, get your trash out in front of your house for pickup. When the can's empty, just grab the remote again and drive it back where it belongs. No more dealing with rainy nights or chilly moings.

Well, maybe Furze needs to work on it a bit more, because the contraption crashes a few times in the above video. But that's really due to the small space of the inventor's workshop. Outdoors, it seems to work pretty smoothly. So smoothly, in fact, that Furze is planning to post another video on February 21 in which he takes the trashbot, or a wheelie bin as he calls it (because he's British, right?), out on the town to bemuse the locals.

The gizmo has two lights mounted on the front that look like robot eyes and it melds components from a motorized wheelchair with an ordinary trash bin. We've asked Furze if he has any plans to take it to the next level and market it. We'll let you know if we hear back. I'd certainly sign up for his Indiegogo campaign. You?