Over the next 18 months, the trial will be extended beyond bins and parking to dozens of things such as rodent traps, soap dispensers, water meters and central heating systems.
Poland's opposition Law and Justice party has made noises about helping the "frankowicze" borrowers, as has the Polish People's Party, a member of the governing coalition.The Austrian and Italian banks that had been the most eager dispensers of foreign-currency loans across central Europe passed the European Banking Authority's recent stress tests, as did the largest Hungarian and Polish banks.
Lower charges and more branches and cash dispensers in rural areas and townships, along with agreements among banks to share facilities in these areas, could bring perhaps 6m more customers into banks.
Fujitaka, a maker of vending machines in Kyoto, promptly devised a solution: it built dispensers with artificial vision.
Thousands of cash dispensers in America stopped working, and police dispatchers near Seattle had to use pencils and paper when their computers were disabled.
Such problems, Mr Anderson argues, are best examined using economic concepts, such as externalities, asymmetric information, adverse selection and moral hazard.A classic example is that of fraud involving cash dispensers (automated teller machines).
Similar adjustments will be needed for parking meters, cash dispensers, postal-franking machines and pay phones.
Another study suggests making hydrogen dispensers as common as petrol pumps would cost America the small sum of half a trillion dollars.Then there is the question of where the hydrogen comes from.
And in business, a few basic ideas have served him well: from a headquarters in Sydney he has created a firm, Integrated Research, that supplies systems management for credit cards, stock exchanges and cash dispensers across the world.
But it enables people to reconcile caveman clutter with modern minimalism, and allows companies to benefit from a huge business opportunity that includes inflatable salad bars, over-door baseball cap organisers and motion-activated paper-towel dispensers.
They also charge customers who withdraw cash from branches too often; the idea is to encourage them to use automatic dispensers.
