I want billwashers!

Stefan · Post by **Stefan** » Wed May 15, 2002 9:07 pm

Aren't there any billwashers in Europe? Those over-hygienic Japanese have them, they seem really cool to me!
In goes your dirty, messed up bill, *BUZZZ*,*HUMMM*,*BUZZZ*, and there's your crispy 'n' fresh bill, as good as new! Yay!

K3lvin · Post by **K3lvin** » Wed May 15, 2002 11:17 pm

Stefan wrote: Aren't there any billwashers in Europe?

Do you mean money laundering?

I hope you aren't into it

Stefan · Post by **Stefan** » Thu May 16, 2002 3:38 pm

No you doofus, I mean those machines that wash the dirt off your bills.
Though speaking of money laundering, a lot of criminals went through quite some trouble early January. Think of it, having millions of illegal guilders (or francs or marks, whatever) needing to get exchanged into euros. There were huuuge queues at the Dutch GWK's (Grenswisselkantoren=border exchange offices) cause that's the only place where you can exchange money and it's not registered.

micro · Post by **micro** » Thu May 16, 2002 8:51 pm

Stefan wrote: Aren't there any billwashers in Europe? Those over-hygienic Japanese have them, they seem really cool to me!
In goes your dirty, messed up bill, *BUZZZ*,*HUMMM*,*BUZZZ*, and there's your crispy 'n' fresh bill, as good as new! Yay!

Do Japanese really have little billwashers at home? Would be easier if the banks would wash and iron the bills for us...

But maybe a regular washing machine is also good for the task: A regular washing machine can be filled with 4 kg at a time, this should reach for a million

Flip the Coin · Post by **Flip the Coin** » Thu May 16, 2002 10:43 pm

Stefan wrote: Aren't there any billwashers in Europe? Those over-hygienic Japanese have them, they seem really cool to me!
In goes your dirty, messed up bill, *BUZZZ*,*HUMMM*,*BUZZZ*, and there's your crispy 'n' fresh bill, as good as new! Yay!

Can they make one with built in scanner to ease the entering of notes for eurobilltracker?

Nico

mts · Post by **mts** » Sun May 19, 2002 5:17 pm

Flip the Coin wrote: Can they make one with built in scanner to ease the entering of notes for eurobilltracker?

I don't care about billwashing (crazy Japanese

), but an automated EBT Banknote Serial Scanner would be really cool..

esperantisto · Post by **esperantisto** » Sun May 19, 2002 6:13 pm

The automatic scanner would be too cool! I wish the notes had a bar code on them like the Nederlandse notes did.

DoubleYou · Post by **DoubleYou** » Thu May 30, 2002 10:30 pm

esperantisto wrote:The automatic scanner would be too cool!

I don't know if you all want to pay much for such a thing, but there already exists an electronic pen which can read text.

micro · Post by **micro** » Thu May 30, 2002 10:44 pm

esperantisto wrote:The automatic scanner would be too cool! I wish the notes had a bar code on them like the Nederlandse notes did.

The notes should have a chip built in and track themselves using GPS!

francky · Post by **francky** » Fri May 31, 2002 7:25 am

micro wrote: The notes should have a chip built in and track themselves using GPS!

DoubleYou · Post by **DoubleYou** » Fri May 31, 2002 9:10 am

micro wrote:The notes should have a chip built in and track themselves using GPS!

Little bit expensive for ECB but a good idea

SteC · Post by **SteC** » Fri Jul 05, 2002 6:21 pm

Big ECB Brother is watching you!

EuroBillTracker · Post by **EuroBillTracker** » Fri Jul 05, 2002 9:44 pm

micro wrote:
esperantisto wrote:The automatic scanner would be too cool! I wish the notes had a bar code on them like the Nederlandse notes did.
The notes should have a chip built in and track themselves using GPS!

They're actually planning this using RFID

DoubleYou · Post by **DoubleYou** » Sat Jul 06, 2002 10:37 am

EuroBillTracker wrote:
micro wrote:
esperantisto wrote:The automatic scanner would be too cool! I wish the notes had a bar code on them like the Nederlandse notes did.
The notes should have a chip built in and track themselves using GPS!
They're actually planning this using RFID

Bills tracking themselfes? Maybe you can tell what RFID means, then I understand.

EuroBillTracker · Post by **EuroBillTracker** » Sat Jul 06, 2002 2:24 pm

DoubleYou wrote: Bills tracking themselfes? Maybe you can tell what RFID means, then I understand.

RFID means radio frequency identification : you put in a little chip and it responds to an electric field a special way so basically it's a simple way to uniquely identify a bill (if they encode the serial number).