This little piggy

Want to encourage your budding little industrialist? This nifty piggy bank, mentioned in an earlier post, teaches children the important virtues of thrift and factory automation. Let's see a mutual fund do that!

Not only does this bank have a coin receptacle guarded by a multi-jointed robot arm, it boasts AI functionality: it's a "decision maker." The user asks a question, pulls the lever and gets pithy responses like "never." Sounds a bit grim, but kids have to learn the hard facts of life when it comes to all those eternal questions. Like, when do I get my money back?

Never!