In London, medieval tools explained daily life better than any treasure, @the_pat.

But why make such a big deal out of it...? Repair costs can easily match the price of a new one, and you have to schedule it and wait. Plus, newer models are often more energy efficient anyway. Just feels like a waste of time and money to fix something so disposable.

My local recycling center got machines that sort glass by color. They use light sensors to tell brown glass from clear. This made the recycled glass cleaner and more valuable. The plant says they sell it faster now.

Oh man, that reminds me of when we cleaned out my grandma's attic and found boxes of OLD Christmas decorations. There was this one angel ornament with this creepy, blank stare that looked totally wrong, like it had seen some stuff. My cousin said it gave him nightmares, but my aunt just put it right on the tree because it was "vintage." It's wild what people will look past because something seems normal at first glance, that angel had some ACTUAL horror movie energy just sitting in a box of tinsel. You find that stuff in the most boring places FOR REAL.

The Knightscope security bots in most malls use LIDAR for mapping, not facial recognition. Their programming focuses on detecting environmental anomalies like open doors or odd sounds. The privacy concern is valid, but the actual surveillance capability is often misinterpreted.