Urban Beehive Brings Bees Indoors

[Frizzle]

Give me a nozzle to let me get the honey directly without having to put my hand inside, and I'll take 2.
That is the most awesome thing ever. EVER. My god I love honey...

Did anyone else buy those honey straws from local fairs when they were little? I should probably have diabetes...

 

[thiosk]

but what if you live in a major metropolis yet still crave delicious honey and the warm companionship of a few million drones?

Excuse me, I have to put on my Internet Pedantry hat:

The drones are the males-- and are far less numerous than the sterile females, who would be providing the vast majority of companionship.

/take off hat


So you can smoke them, but won't a lot of the bees fall off inside the house while removing the succulent honey? I think this is potentially a terrible idea for a true, practical urban setting. Its perfect for things like science museums and the like, to enable children to see the bees in their natural setting. Even schools. But probably not for the breakfast nook...

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I can't possibly think of anything that could go wrong with one of these... not a damn thing... nope.

Sarcasm generator malfunction...

Holy fuck I can just see someone who has no knowledge of being allergic to beestings getting one of these, somehow fucking up and pissing the hive off (I don't know, say a malicious 5 year old who thinks its cool to whack the beehive with his plastic whiffleball bat?) then getting stung Macauley Culkin in My Girl style...

 

[RagTagBand]

and the therapeutic value

No, No...No. constantly buzzing stingy insects would drive me the fuck insane and one of the reasons I like living in cities is that nature tends to stay the doodle out of it. If I wanted to be surrounded by insects I'd go live in a forest.

 

[Substitute Troll]

What happens when the glass breaks?

 

[Penguinishka]

Well this is just lovely. Bees are awesome and I'm glad Philips has decided to use time, money, and man power to design them a fancy, futuristic home.
But what about it attracting bears?
Possible risk of bear invasion aside, it's super neat

 

[Sparrow]

Sounds like the perfect weapon for the supervillian at home!

"Oh, I see you have me off-guard Mr Bond... or do you? Release the bees."

 

[LogicArmour]

I know someone who cool gadgets like this. However, he goes into anaphylactic shock whenever he's stung by a bee. It's nearly killed him...twice! So he would love the device, but hat that it uses bees.

As for myself. Since I am a firm proponent of urban agriculture, I say this is a strange, but promising step forward .

 

[DarkRyter]

I really want one.

I have a hive a bees. I live outside the law.

 

[Hoopybees]

I WANT! How much how soon can I get one?! Oh man... actually my flatmate refuses to let me get a pet rabbit he might not be so happy about a swarm of bees... on the other hand screw it. I can move.

 

[Joshimodo]

I'll wait a few years for the Modern Beehive 2.0, which is installed directly into my forearms via injection.

 

[FFHAuthor]

Well...it certainly would make an unorthodox guard animal, like geese in the country. I can just see someone rigging their home alarm system to open the hive if someone breaks in. THAT would be one helluva deterrent to a breaking and entering. Dog is one thing, but a few thousand angry bees? I doubt the plasma TV and PC is worth dealing with that.

 

[iniudan]

Well this is just lovely. Bees are awesome and I'm glad Philips has decided to use time, money, and man power to design them a fancy, futuristic home.
But what about it attracting bears?
Possible risk of bear invasion aside, it's super neat

I want the bear invasion, so I can raise a bear cavalry. =p

 

[Ghengis John]

I want one, but only if it makes a pleasant and unidentifiable electronic noise to go along with the ones made when I turn on my video cube or sit in my silver egg shaped chair to play a mindflex duel.

 

[Kopikatsu]

Oooh, this would be an awesome installation! Bees are awesome! They make honey, have kinky sex between flowers, work as a more or less cohesive unit, and all kinds of things! How awesome is that? And to get one in my house, or off to the side? Yeah, I could live with that. Viva la Bee!

But death to the wasp. Fuck those assholes.

That's because bees die when they sting things, so they tend to not do that unless it's a life or death situation already. Basically, don't fuck with them and they'll leave you alone.

True story: All worker bees are female, just like ants. The males are kept with the Queen for easy orgy access. However, only one male gets chosen to be 'the one' and the rest get kicked out of the hive to die.

Once abandoned, they have two choices. 1. Die or 2. Find a Queen that hasn't started a hive yet, and get to work on some funky love makin'.

Edit: I lived on a farm for most of my life, and one of the things we were raising was bees. Over 200 hives at any given time. It was cool.

 

[Shakomaru]

All this does is make me think of sollux... Tell me when I can use bees instead of a computer. Actually, I do want one of these..

 

[Kojiro ftt]

Philips is one of those global companies that does EVERYTHING. Like GE and Mitsubishi.

 

[scotth266]

Okay, this is just a disaster waiting to happen.


I mean seriously, keeping bees as pets is fine and all, but they should be kept outdoors, by someone who is trained to hell and back in handling them and wearing one of those anti-bee suits.