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Gadget Allows You to Keep Bees In Your Apartment
greenrainbow writes "Philips just unveiled a new concept for an urban beehive that would allow anyone to become an amateur bee keeper – even those who live in apartments with no backyards. Best of all you pull a little string and all the fresh honey you want comes out. Hopefully no bees come with it!"
Philips Unveils Sexy Urban Beehive Concept
I'll admit... it's entirely possible that I don't understand the meaning of that word.
So... it's Christmas, you have your entire family over, Uncle Pete is drunk again... doing his rendition of Grandma got ran over by a rain deer... trips of your sons new dump truck, reaches up to balance himself and pulls the entire hive down and crushes it under his drunken body as your relatives look on in horror. There's about a 3 second pause before you hear a single slurred word from Uncle Pete: "Owe... I think I gots bit er somthin... *gurgle*" the room erupts in screaming as people start climbing over each other trying to get to the door. Queue the Monty Python music, you'd better hope Santa brings you some calamine lotion.
I was not interested in owning this device until I read your post.
the normal way to do this is via centrifuge, and generally, you want to do that without the bees.
And deprive the bees of a carnival ride?
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
NO , the bigger question is why we have more than four people claiming to be beekeepers on /.
That's a demographic, there.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
until they've worked the bugs out.