I suspect that what would be even more useful than a Touchless Trashcan, would be Touchless Trash. However I could be wrong. $99.95.

‘The Touchless Trashcan uses patented invisible harmless infrared technology. Place hand or debris about 6 inches away from the infrared sensor near the lid. It will open instantly when you approach and will close automatically in 3-second after debris has been released and hand moves away.’

Fujitsu Labs has developed a no contact biometric authentication system which works by ‘recognizing the pattern of blood veins in the palm’. Riiight!

By the time all these bods have finished, we’ll be walking around getting scanned for our thumbprints, retina prints, vein prints, fingerprints, voice prints and DNA sample. The only thing they don’t seem to be working on is our pimple prints. Sheesh!