garbage in the ocean? James Dyson has a new vaccuum for that!

[Darren Dirt]

ON A BOAT!

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3028391/james-dyson-is-designing-a-giant-vacuum-on-a-boat-to-clean-ocean-trash

Okay maybe right now it is focused on rivers, but with all the floaties we saw thanks to CNN etc. coverage of the missing Malaysia flight I would expect eventually the ocean will get the ol' bagless treatment too.

[Mr. Analog]

Y'arr! There be floating plastic booty to be had!

GET THE GIANT CART THE RECYCLING CENTRE WON'T KNOW WHAT HIT 'ER

[Lazybones]

Ya, a little disappointing seeing it a river solution.. The open water issue would be much harder to solve, and the scale makes it hard to be economical unless some new techno magic is discovered.