That's brilliant - now why can't they do something to make working on a Friday more fun!

(and probably in the UK as well) you'd be arrested as a terrorist for putting something like that into a trash can. Because clearly you're just two slabs of C4 away from building a bomb.

Gotta love the Volkswagen way of thinking

maybe they can get these guys in to run stairs instead of tapdance?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6je44_fao-schwarz-big-piano_music

There is, or perhaps, was, one of those staircases in the Boston Science Museum.

I seem to remember a group of kids using them to play a tune when I was there.

The women 40 seconds into the trash can clip are speaking in sign language - so how can they hear the soundbite?

I was looking forward to seeing how VW had managed to make huge weighted keys, preferably striking real strings.

I hope everyone is appreciating the irony of the fact that at least one of the people in the first group to play with the bin is deaf. :)

I suspect (maybe wrongly but...you know) that should someone do that here, there would be some public safety outcry deploring the riskiness of providing the general public with a keyboard on a staircase...you know, what with the risk of someone trying to play Bach and tripping, promptly falling and breaking several bones.

Or due to the twister-like poses someone would have to make with friends to play some jazz.

Or the anti-noise brigade claiming that the whole enterprise will cause damaged hearing and traumatise poor travellers forever putting them off the sound of a piano.

Or the "is it anti-slip" club. Which could be renamed the "why don't i just watch where i'm going" club.

Or, even more fringe, some smurfs who will no doubt claim that it affects our indigenous birdlife. Or dolphins.

Personally? Think its a fun idea and a good laugh. The people in the video seemed to enjoy it too.

Lets have a little more fun eh?

Dear Volkswagen. Excellent ! Well done. Clearly you've got a wacky new batch of engineers (or the downturn drove the old lot bonkers). Can you put more of that talent into your cars please?

thanks.

Social engineering by making doing the right thing fun? Brilliant.

Yeah, deaf people only hang out with other deaf people, thanks for reminding me.

Or has she just got bad earwax?

Not wanting to be pedantic, but you could have linked to the Engish versions :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbEKAwCoCKw

...my taste for octaves and widely-spaced arpeggios would probably result in some nasty fractures.

As far as I can make out from the Swedish text* it appears that making the bin fun to use resulted in the collection of 72kg of rubbish, which is apparently a good 41kg more than normal (I can't be asked to do the precise math, but that's more than double the normal "take").

If they could get that to work in London..

* No, I don't speak Swedish but one of the languages I speak is close enough to get the gist of it (I couldn't be asked to use translator either, it's Friday evening, so there).

Never seen one of those before! Oh, except in every hands-on science museum I've ever been to.

Anyone with growing children will fully understand what a bottomless bin is, and it has been around since the dawn of time.

Is there a version of the video where you can actually hear what the keyboard is playing, rather than overdubbed piano music?

I do find it somewhat bewildering that they'd create a public art installation whose primary purpose is to make sound, video it, and then edit away the sound.

@Steve 16

Sorry to be pedantic, but you weren't being pedantic.

It says they got more rubbish, and we saw one person picking something up off the floor.

Sounds good, if it makes people pick more litter up.

But more rubbish in this bin, probably means less in another bin... ie peoples rubbish in their pockets being fished out to go into this rather than at home/another bin.

Still, could be worked into a nice idea, recycling with incentives etc (like that tesco holiday couple...)

De Efteling(1) over here in NL has had talking(2) litter receptacles for decades and they work. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. More power to their elbow etc. etc. etc.

(1) Think Alton Towers . . . only better.

(2) They spout "Papier hier"(3)

(3) For the linguistically challenged it literally translates as "Paper here."

love it..

top marks to whoever thought of this..

Anyone know how they made this? It's pretty amazing and I want to build one, but I have no engineering skills in recreating such a thing XD

Not only is the idea cool, but I observe that people in the video had a marked tendency to use the stairs instead of the escalator - even the older ones.

So it encourages people to take the stairs, which is healthy exercise.

Now I wonder what kind of racket that thing made during rush hour . . .

Why do they have to be deaf to make use of sign language

One of them could be mute or even both of them.

Maybe one is foreign but they both know signing.

many reasons

but then again i did go HUH !? when i first saw it. But then again i thought about it before posting (something i dont normally do)