This great project of Denis Bostandzic was one of the five nominees for Henkel Design Award 2007, held in the area of industrial design for young designers from Central and Eastern Europe. There was 25 countries with 5 nominees from each county and he finished in top five.

OLD FRIEND WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY
Credit Card Pig Bank

Personal use
Public use ( network )
Public use

- your old friend tuned up with new technology. In the modern age of internet and wirless technologies, Credit Card Pig Bank is just logical step to the future.

Credit Card Pig Bank – could be used on several ways.

- You could use your pig to save money. Every time you slide the credit card trough the card reader in your ceramic pig the software will automatically connect directly to your private bank account and some amount of money will be deposit on account. The amount could be set by Credit Card Pig Bank software installed on your computer. Your pig is wireless, and will connect automatically to the computer over the bluetooth technology.

- Credit Card Pig Bank could be used on public places for collecting donations for different purposes. Because pig is wireless you could put it on any place in shopping mall, banks, posts … You could use as many pigs as you like in one network, they will all connect over the bluetooth to the server that will make connection to the bank account and deposit the money from any pig in system.

- Credit Card Pig Bank could be used on public places for collecting donations, but if there`s no need for many devices in network, you could use only one pig connected over the bluetooth to the computer that is connected to bank over the internet.

Simple and powerful.

via: Bēhance.net