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Designers Create Meat Eating Furniture
Sonny Yatsen writes "NPR's Robert Krulwich explores the work of several designers who are working on carnivorous furniture. These creations, include a clock that feeds on dead flies, and a table that lures mice into a guillotined death. 'We want robots to be able to get their own energy from the environment,' says co-designer Prof. Melhuish. Let's hope they come up with a lounge chair that eats cockroaches sometime soon."
Does the furniture also crap?
The three laws of thermodynamics:(1) You can't win. (2) You can't break even. (3) You can't even quit.
The coffee table eats mice to power itself.
But what does it need power for? It's pretty much a coffee table without the energy the mouse will provide!
It needs power so that it can eat mice, duh!
Actually heat is the one way pest control companies say you can be certain to be rid of them. They cannot live above a temperature of 100F or so. So in many cases they literally hook giant fans up to the windows and pump your house up to 120 or so for 24 - 48 hours to heat up everything in there, and you can rest assured any bedbugs in the building at that time are dead as doornails.