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toilets
Loowatt: The Benefits Of Pooping In a Toilet Made From Poop
Well, if you are going to make something from poop, it might as well be a toilet right? That's the idea behind the Loowatt waterless toilet system. The problem is, we have a poop and forget mentality in this country. More » -
toilets
Self-Cleaning Toilet Becomes a Urinal With the Push Of a Button
I've always wanted a urinal in my bathroom, but a lack of space (and money) has always been an issue. This Ultimate Clean Toilet could solve all of these problems and more. More »
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By Sean FallonComment by Software_Goddess: I have to have this! Not only would I not have to clean the toilet, but I wouldn't have to... 19 Responses | Other threads
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twitter
Twitter Toilet Tweets Your Poo
Wow, a literal Twitter shitter. Pretty simple—every time it's flushed, it twitters gems like this using arduino hardware. The Twitter cycle of poo is now complete. [Hacklab via HackADay via PopSci]
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Comment by KeepingTheForeName_GitEmSteveDave: I would be more impressed if it could rate your waste using the Bristol Stool Scale, and include that data... 16 Responses | Other threads
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japan
Japanese Toilet Kneeler Puts You Closer To the Action
Splashes become a worry once you hit the high end of five feet, which is why this Japanese "Angels Knee Pillow" is a decent alternative, even if it is a little degrading. More »
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By Jason ChenComment by Kaiser-Machead: How about a urination chamber? It's a partitioned off section of the bathroom with a drain, and a nozzle that... 20 Responses | Other threads
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toilets
Flo Toilet Makes Pooping Even More Exhausting
This insane object is a fancy new toilet. It promotes pooping in a yoga-like fashion, squatting down to work on your ab and back muscles. Think it'll catch on?? More »
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By Adam FrucciComment by OMG! Ponies!: I'm not shitting on the floor of my bathroom. Maybe I'll shit on someone else's bathroom floor, but not... 7 Responses | Other threads
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hygiene
Motorcycle Toilet Helps You Squat and Hover
This concept toilet by designer Nelson Ayala does what good concepts do—make our lives easier. In this case it prevents cheek-to-bowl contact in public restrooms. More »
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By Sean FallonComment by henhen: i think the homos are going to enjoy thins one... 8 Responses | Other threads
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space
NASA To Reveal ISS Node Name On Colbert's Show This Tuesday
The mystery and pseudo-controversy surrounding the ISS's unnamed node ends this Tuesday, when astronaut Sunita Williams will go on The Colbert Report to tell the world what NASA has decided to do. More »
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By Jack LoftusComment by OMG! DEITY!: Am I the only one who thinks he is way to rehearsed and unfunny? 11 Responses | Other threads
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toilets
Toto Neorest Toilets Now Clean Up After Your Chili and Cheese Nightmare
Toto toilets are word-renowned for their high-techitude, but a new upgrade takes things a step further. Their Neorest toilets are now self-cleaning. More »
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By Sean FallonComment by Sean Murray: cn t rn cryss? ll, wht's nxt? wnt n tht wps my ss t 4 Responses | Other threads
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toilets
The HemAway Toilet Seat is Tough To Think About
This is how one physician dealt with the problem of using the toilet while battling hemorrhoids. The HemAway toilet seat—because severe butt pain can be a powerful inspiration. [HemAway via Medgadget]
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By Sean FallonComment by FrancesTheMute: lol, I wonder who the poor sap was that had to make that animation. Probably the lowest on the... 6 Responses | Other threads
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toilets
This Ski Jump Will Make You Crap Yourself
I ate a wheel of cheese for lunch. But I'm not worried. Constipation is no match for the bowel-emptying thrills of the ski jump toilet stall. More »
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By Sean FallonComment by Hello Mister Walrus: What do those controls to the right of the toilet do? 13 Responses | Other threads
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toilets
Interactive Toilet Scares Kids into Pooping, Hopefully Not in Their Pants
Have you ever been scared to use the restroom because you're terrified something's going to pop out of the toilet and grab your ass? The Interactive Toilet does that to your children. Sort of. More »
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By Andi WangComment by enchanted goose: "Have you ever been scared to use the restroom because you're terrified something's going to pop out of the toilet... 4 Responses | Other threads
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toilets
Brondell Perfect Flush Helps You Save Water By Giving You Two Flushing Options
Although having two built-in flushing options on toilets is nothing new, the Brondell Perfect Flush kit lets you mount the two-button flushing options onto your own toilet, without help from a professional plumber. More »
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By Andi WangComment by snowstellie: smart. this would be good here in california ESPECIALLY since this is our 3rd year in a drought. all you... 5 Responses | Other threads
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japan
Toto's Intelligence Toilet II Smartly Measures The Temperature Of Your Pee, Among Other Things
It's a weigh-scale, a BMI, blood sugar and blood pressure monitor, is networked to your PC and yes, features "urine temperature measurement and analysis"—ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Toto Intelligence Toilet II.
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By John MahoneyComment by Mona N.: Uh - why are there two rolls? TWO. 18 Responses | Other threads
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design
Toilet Paper Shovel Provides Easy Outdoor Relief
With his radical new simple toilet design, Alejandro Bona has single-handedly made pooping outdoors cool again.
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By Jack LoftusComment by OMG! Ponies!: Now if they can just invent something to stop guys from wearing stretch-pants... 7 Responses | Other threads
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space
Astronauts Jiggle ISS Water Recycler Handle But Crew Can't Drink Pee Just Yet
The multimillion dollar water recycler recently installed by astronauts aboard the International Space Station is still experiencing some minor issues this evening, meaning crew members will just have to wait to have their first peetinis, Long Island Iced Pees, Whiskpee Sours and other lame pee-themed drinks I have yet to think of. The prototype recycler, which separates waste from water using a centrifuge system, was brought to the station aboard the latest shuttle mission. It malfunctioned two hours after installation, although a separate sweat and waste water recycler is working as expected. Phew! More »
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By Jack LoftusComment by 92BuickLeSabre: Gin Wizz Peenot Grigio Peenot Noir (Yikes!) Champeegne Mountain Dew Miller Lite 2 Responses | Other threads
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stimulating
Man Invents Vibrating Toilet Seat That Helps You Enjoy the Magic Moment
Johnny Henry of Laurel, Mississippi claims that the vibrating toilet seat he has concocted "is designed to stimulate,” he said. “It’s to make you feel good while you are there.” In other words, it seduces and stimulates stubborn bowels into action. Mmmm...sounds like how I would like to spend part of my morning between 8 and 9 am (right after two cups of coffee and something with bran in it). The good news is that Henry has developed a prototype and is already pitching it to investors. With any luck, we will all be chillin' in the bathroom with a vibrating seat and a whole pack of 3 ply sometime soon. [Leader Call via Boing Boing]
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By Sean FallonComment by lankysob: I think he should "pinch" it to investors instead. 15 Responses | Other threads
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space
NASA Nearly Bombs Australia With 1400lb Ammonia Tank
Jettisoned over a year ago and expected to reenter the Earth's atmosphere on its own time somewhere in the beginning of November, one of the ISS's retired coolant tanks has careened through the Earth's atmosphere in the skies off the coast of Australia. Two lucky things happened here: the reentry took place — and this was completely up to chance — over water, and the atmosphere broke the 1400lb tank into lots of small pieces. More »
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By John HerrmanComment by the facetious feline: Why wouldn't they launch this stuff in the other direction ... you know into the vastness of space instead of... 9 Responses | Other threads
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space
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's... the ISS Flushing the Toilet!
You might want to stay inside today, folks, because there's some space junk the size of a Buick set to reenter Earth's atmosphere and land, well, somewhere later today. After the spectacular disintegration of the Jules Vern earlier this year, this is the second time our earthbound space agencies have purposefully burned something up in the atmosphere. The trouble is, the Verne was carefully controlled and tracked by two planes (hence, the spectacular video). When this puppy breaks up in the atmo, at least 15 chunks of ammonia-soaked metal and other space station goodness are going to reach the surface. "If anybody found a piece of anything on the ground Monday morning, I would hope they wouldn't get too close to it," said a NASA spokesman. More »
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By Jack LoftusComment by 92BuickLeSabre: "...the size of a Buick" Really? That's the comparison you chose to use? Thanks Jack. 6 Responses | Other threads
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Crappy Situations
Man Gets His Arm Sucked into French Train Toilet, Toilet Just Won't Let Go
Here's a piece of advice: when riding a high-speed train with a toilet that uses super-high powered suction to flush, keep your hand out of there. One unlucky Frenchman learned the value of this advice the hard way when he dropped his phone into the toilet of a TGV train. When he reached in to retrieve it, the suction kicked in, and it all went downhill from there. More »
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By Adam FrucciComment by Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: "Benoit Gigou, a witness to the man-eating toilet, said that "He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still... 6 Responses | Other threads
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cellphones
I'm Writing This From My Toilet (You People Are Disgusting)
Okay, not really, my desktop won't fit in my bathroom, but you people really are disgusting. At least according to a survey sponsored by Nokia, 53 percent of Americans have taken a work-related call or email in the bathroom. (Our own results were actually worse.) It doesn't reveal exactly what else they were doing in the bathroom at the time, but it's probably better that way. I mean, just thinking about it makes me wanna wash my hands. So the next time somebody hands you their phone to check out this amazing new app, you better make sure it's amazing first. [Gadget Lab] -
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Richard Garriott Arrives at ISS, Reportedly Ready to Fix the Toilet
The Soyuz TMA-13, carrying computer game rich guy, son of an astronaut, and current space tourist Richard Garriott has successfully docked with the International Space Station as of 8:26 GMT (3:26 EST). The three-man crew just finished floating around in orbit for a few days, and are now commencing their scheduled missions. For the two astronauts, that means spending six months building new life support equipment for future crews; for Garriott, that means ten days of floating around, giggling and getting sick on piles of freeze-dried Neapolitan ice cream. More »
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By John HerrmanComment by Giz Has Lost It: "Who is it?" "The plumber. I've come to fix the toilet." 2 Responses | Other threads
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Auto Toilets
Seattle Flushes $5 Million Automated Public Restrooms for Major Loss
I thought automated public pay toilets were a sure thing. I mean, auto-cleaning, high-tech robo toilets that allow the occupant to remain inside for as long as they want, and then clean up all the evidence after the fact... what could go wrong?! Oh right, hookers and drugs, that's what. Which is exactly why the five automated toilets in Seattle were recently sold off for a multi-million dollar loss. How big a loss? Well, when they were installed four years ago the toilets cost $5 million. This week, after an online auction, they sold for just $12,549. More »
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By Jack LoftusComment by Eustace Silly: So there are a few automated toilets in NYC and apparently they have been a big success. I have... more » | Other threads
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toilets
Save Water by Barbecuing Your Poop
Looking to save water? Say hello to the EcoJohn, a toilet that uses no water. Instead, after you do what you do, you "close the lid and a large, screw-like auger turns and carries the waste to the burn chamber where the propane burner then bakes urine, feces and paper into ashes." Wow, that's horrifying! This thing isn't even classified as a toilet. It's classified as a barbecue. If you're looking for a sure-fire way to ruin your family's summer cookout plans, I think you just found it. [OC Register via Neatorama] -
jokes
Toilet Paper Puzzle Makes Pooping Even More Frustrating
Nothing says hilarity like forcing the more dim-witted of your friends to endure skidmarks and dingleberries by putting a puzzle on your toilet paper roll. Boy, you sure are a jokester! You really have an eye for when puzzles and trickery are appropriate and for when they clearly aren't! A toast, to you! [Product Page via NerdApproved]
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By Adam FrucciComment by rabiddachshund: @Carmen Sucks: touche. Problem is I might not go back to TP. That could get expensive. more » | Other threads
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yuck
NASA Collecting 8 Gallons of Employees' Urine Daily For Space Toilet Research
NASA workers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston received what may be the high point in inter-office email last week requesting they begin to pay regular visits to the good folks of Hamilton Sundstrand, aka the "Wee Wee Contractors." They're collecting urine in massive quantities—eight gallons per day—as part of their contract to build the toilet for the upcoming Orion lunar spacecraft. But why do they need so much? I'm sure it's all there in the email... More »
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By John MahoneyComment by jlindenbaum: They... can't use a different substance that has a high ammonia content? 2 Responses | Other threads
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sony ericsson
Sony Ericsson C702 Toilet Test Is Gross, Yet Intriguing
Nowhere in the specs of the Sony Ericsson C720 does it say that it's completely waterproof—just dust and splash proof. And if there's one thing that a toilet does well (at least when we use it), it's splash. This could be one of the more disgusting tests imaginable for a phone. Seriously, are you going to use it now, because the CDC thinks otherwise. [bka]
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By Jason ChenComment by winkydink: @OMG! Ponies!: No, the tolilet rule is, if you drop your phone in the toilet, sell it on ebay. more » | Other threads
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toilet
Secret Planet Killer: High-Tech Japanese Toilets
Japan's second most dubiously famous technological predilection (behind panty-vending machines) is its highfalutin' toilets, which warm, wash, blow dry and deodorize your bum, just to cover the basics. Japan is also well regarded for taking the lead on going green—average energy consumption per person is half ours. Tragically, the Japanese desire for a pampered and squeaky clean butthole is killing that ethos—and the planet. More » -
Shit Box
Pop A Squat Anywhere, Anytime With Environmentally-Friendly Shit Box
Next time you're camping, instead of digging a hole or using one of those suspect comfort castle port-a-johns to dispense with No. 2, why not infuse a little portability into nature's call with the Shit Box? It's completely cardboard, fully biodegradable, and utterly ridiculous. And yet, I'm drawn to it. I want to see if it can hold my weight (170 lbs., colon empty). I want to know why designer Richard Wharton named his talking poo mascot "Little Jack," and how the hell a company like this gets away with a returns policy page. But most of all, as a writer named Jack who also happens to go to the bathroom in the woods, I want to test one. More »
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By Jack LoftusComment by StarChaser Tyger: @TheVelourFogg: ...then catches on fire. You don't even want to think about the RROD... @ pixelslave : AKA "Kitty litter" I... more » | Other threads
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Urinal Concept
ONDA Urinal Concept Changes the Question: Did You Wash Yours Hands While Going to the Bathroom?
Usually, washing up in the toilet at a sporting event gets you a one-way ticket out of the ballpark, but that could be changing thanks to Lee Isherwood and his ODNA urinal concept. The first—and probably last—of its kind, the ODNA promotes water conservation by combining a hand washing station with a urinal. Instead of simply flushing, you go about your business and then wash your hands in the infrared-activated "sink" above. The cascading water from the sink cleans out the toilet, and serves as the "flush." More »
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By Jack LoftusComment by TXguy: Nothing new here, the Japanese have had both urinals and regular toilets with built in hand wash faucets for decades.... more » | Other threads
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iss
Habemos John! Astronauts Can Boldly Go Again, As ISS Toilet is Fixed
Spaceboys who have been crossing their legs in sympathy with the can-less astronauts on the Space Station can relax. Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko fixed the toilet after the Discovery space shuttle delivered a new pump to the ISS on Monday. The outer-space loo had been broken for two weeks, and the three-man team had been taking it in turns to swill it out manually with water. "Let's start using it," said Russian mission control to Kononenko, adding hopefully, "we'll keep our fingers crossed." In other space news, a billion-dollar Japanese science lab was opened on the ISS. Called Kibo, or hope, the 37-foot long lab is one of the largest rooms on the ISS, but will not be up and running until its porch arrives next year. [CNN]
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By AddyDugdaleComment by Unspellable: @AddyDugdale: Entonces: 'tenemos catolica', 'tenemos italiana', o 'tenemos papa-cita'. more » | Other threads
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she-rinal
Peeandgo, The Lady Urinal with a Splash of Gold
You may be forgiven for thinking it's toilet week here on Giz, but how could we not show you this? The Peeandgo, designed by Chen-Karlsson takes its inspiration from traditional squat urinals in Asia and the Middle East, and I'm guessing its *ahem* provocative shape is designed to stop splashback. There's no info on pricing, or indeed on whether that's real gold, so it looks like a design prototype. It's nice to see a rethink, and a bit of luxury devoted to the oft-ignored porcelain things in the bathroom, but, ladies of Giz, do you think this design is actually convenient nowadays? [Belowtheclouds via Likecool] -
space
Houston, We Have a Problem. A Really BIG Problem.
Short of the airlock opening in the space station and sucking you out to die in a vacuum, what's the worst thing that could happen during your visit to the International Space Station? If you guessed "the toilet breaking," you're the big winner! Because that's exactly what happened this week. More »
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By Mark WilsonComment by http://www.punkfloydproject.com: the new Japanese module has waited years - and now they'll probably use it for storing bags of wee. Aaaah intelesting specimen. more » | Other threads
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toilets
Kohler Fountainhead Toilet Makes Crapping So Luxurious You Won't Even Want to Wipe
This Kohler Fountainhead toilet looks so not like a conventional toilet that we'll probably have second thoughts about putting our asses on it and letting fly. Not only is there a glowing LED mechanism on the back to illuminate your business, but buttons on the lid allow it to automatically open up for #1 or #2. For the eco-maniacs, there's the 1.28 gallon per flush system, saving water and dehydrating sewer crocodiles at the same time. How much would you pay for this? $3,800? It's yours in June. It's the closest thing you'll get to taking a dump on Ayn Rand's work without resorting to defecating in the fiction aisle at Barnes and Noble. [Kohler via DVICE] More »
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By Jason ChenComment by XJ_4x4: It seems to me a square toilet base would be a bit uncomfortable to s(h)it on :o more » | Other threads
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ipoop
Does Apple Have the Balls to Sue Its Korean Namesake?
Poor the Apple. No sooner has the Cupertino conquistador de computadoras taken steps to protect its trademark against GreeNYC than another eponymous company pops up. This one's in Korea and it sells toilets and bidets which do all those flash things so beloved of Asian poopers. Did I really just write that? Oh dear, yes I did. Anyway, I'm looking forward to Jobs' riposte. Will he bring out something for the bathroom that includes shower function, heat seat, self cleaning and user memory? If I were him, I'd just send in the lawyers. [AppleZen via i4u]
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By AddyDugdaleComment by 92BuickLeSabre: @Samifumi: That was kind of my initial sense too. Thanks for the take. more » | Other threads
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doodads
Toilet Lighter Showcases Your Emotional Maturity to All Who See It
As any six-year-old can tell you, there ain't nothing funnier than toilet humor. This toilet lighter is sure to impress your nephew, if not any women your own age, with its hilarious combo of a lighter and a tiny toilet. It might be an awkward shape that won't fit well in your pocket, but it's shaped like a toilet! How can you go wrong? Also, happy Friday, everyone. [Product Page via Nerd Approved]
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By Adam FrucciComment by KRS: Also comes as an engagement ring box. Buy both and save on all the money you might spend on... more » | Other threads
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apple
If Apple Made a Toilet: Air Poo, With Multi-Touch
The Air Poo is everything Apple could stuff into a toilet, minus OS X. The multi-touch flushpad intuitively uses one finger swipe to send no. 1 down the pipes and two fingers for no. 2, which its built-in iPod dock and surround sound masks with "crystal clear highs and bowel-shaking lows." More »
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Comment by zincabopataurious: And after apple releases this, every toilet in the world will be considered 'iclones' more » | Other threads
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gadgets
iTouchless Auto-Flusher Gives You the Posh Toilet You Always Wanted
Somehow slipping under our toilet-obsessed butts at CES, the iTouchless Auto-Flusher saves you the effort of pressing down on that flush handle once you've gone. Using IR to sense you, it does make using the toilet a little more hygienic and its 4 "C" batteries will last for 23,000 flushes, which seems incredibly reasonable (3 years of use, apparently). Buy it for $199.95, install it in your toilet cistern and you could impress your visitors with that "Oooh... it's just like a 5-star hotel!" feeling. Thankfully a manual override is available. [iTouchless via ChipChick]
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By Kit EatonComment by robinandtami: @thechansen: Not to mention that once the cat figures this thing out (it's way easier than having to actually press a... more » | Other threads
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gadgets
Hypercolor Heat-Changing Toilet Shows Who's Been Assing it Up
Even though we're comfortable with sitting on a toilet seat that someone just vacated (and vacated their bowels on), it still comes as a surprise just how warm that seat is—the ass must be a bit higher than 98 degrees. This thermochromic toilet seat, however, lets you know exactly how warm the seat is, with a bonus effect of showing you exactly which part of the seat was in contact with the previous occupant. As you can see from the picture, the man before was a widey. Almost as good as the hypercolor shirts of yore, which let us know of Kelly's extracurricular activities in a visual manner. [Canadian Design Resource via Boing Boing]
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By Jason ChenComment by deusdiabolus: This toilet seat contains the US Recommended Daily Allowance of WR0N9 and NO. more » | Other threads
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cellphones
SatLav Cellphone Service Prevents Public Urination in London
Today London's Westminster City council launched a toilet-finding service to help relieve visitor's bloated bladders and prevent public urination. Apparently, the problem is quite serious in London's West End, where something in the neighborhood of 10,000 gallons of urine ends up in the streets each year. More »
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