More brilliant Internet of Things gadgetry: A £1,300 mousetrap

‘Pest control firm Rentokil has developed an Internet of Things mousetrap that gasses rodents and automatically calls out a disposal bod – and it can be yours for a cool £1,300.
The mousetrap was featured by an entirely straight-laced BBC video reporter, who asked a Rentokil rep: “This could be quite an expensive proposition. Why would they use this instead of a mousetrap with a bit of cheese on it?”
Berwyn Evans, of Rentokil, said: “This is a trap that’s connected to the internet, essentially. Whereas there are other standard traps on the market that just catch and kill the mouse, that mouse can be caught in that trap for several weeks or several months.”
“What this does is sends us a signal to notify us the trap has been activated, which allows us to respond.”’
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