Smart trash can in India turns garbage into 15 minutes of Wi-Fi connectivity - TomoNews

MUMBAI, INDIA — Music festivals are notorious for bad Wi-Fi connectivity and littering. Luckily, two Mumbai entrepreneurs have created a solution: a trash can that offers Wi-Fi in exchange for garbage. The project came to fruition when Raj Desai and Pratik Agarwal, the 26-year-old co-founders of startup ThinkScream, attended the NH7 Weekender music festival in 2013. At the event, the pair noted connectivity issues when it took them hours to locate one another due to the lack of Internet connection. “Prat