Friday, June 27, 2008

Facebank: A Super Creepy Piggy Bank That Eats Your Coins

Imagine Cookie Monster from Sesame Street developed an insatiable hunger for coins. Then remove the huggable blue body, add a blockish, unintentionally creepy robotic face for chowing down on metal, and you’ll have something that resembles this Facebank. Created by, who else, but the Japanese, the Facebank is an exceedingly creepy piggy bank given human-like features. Using a special sensor in the devices’ eyes, the Facebank knows when you’re about to insert a coin into its mouth. When you w