Designed by Michal Mitek, this concept bathroom design is intended to make the most of a space by hiding several features in each aspect of its design. From the LCDs that can either give a beautiful panoramic view or double as computer monitors to the rising floor that covers the tub to turn the area into a fitness floor, everything is smoothly integrated.

I'd love a bathroom like the Roca, but I'll be damned if I can figure out where the soap holder is. [Yanko Design]

I could go on about the cascading water, high gloss surfaces and the little sink designed specifically for your feet—but I'll let the images do most of the talking. [Dornbracht via Trendir via DVICE]

But recycling is precisely the point, according to designer Michael Trudgeon. In the Australian outback, where this restroom might have a home someday, water is scarce.

So is space, apparently, given the collapsible design, but we have a hard time believing the outback suddenly became a bustling overpopulated metropolis overnight. If there's anything the outback is not short on, it's vast expanses of dusty nothingness. Nevertheless, this sure beats a wooden outhouse or worse, a simple hole in the ground.

Trudgeon received a Bathroom Innovation Award in '08 for his design, which would be equally at home in Corbin Dallas' futuristic apartment as it would in an Outback Restaurant. [Bathroom Innovation Award
via DVICE]

The train had to make an emergency stop for two hours while rescue workers tried to get the man out. They ended up having to remove the entire toilet from the train with the man's arm still stuck in it.

Benoit Gigou, a witness to the man-eating toilet, said that "He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off."

Let this be a lesson to us all. Don't mess with train toilets. [BBC]

The beauty of the ONDA, beyond its Italian-inspired design and conservation chops (uses only half the water—think about it), is that it can be fitted to existing plumbing. It also features an "anti-splashback" design for those with less-than-desirable aim (score!).Of course, for you non-hand washers out there, this is just another toilet. You know who you are. [Hershwood 3D via The Design Blog]

There's probably a Loolander "Loo Steel" joke there somewhere, but I can't be bothered. [Pocket-Lint and Design Odyssey]

Ah, that's better. The Rotator is made of some kind of substance called duralight® (important enough for a "registered" symbol, but not important enough for capitals, that's, like, profound.) It's on show at this week's Salone di Mobile in Milan, or the Furniture Fair if you're a pleb like me who can't speak Italian, and, aspazzarently, it is "a new enjoyable experience in which a continuous and unexpected flow of water becomes the protagonist." Is anyone else finding it hard to get a handle on its proportions? It looks Lilliputian in size to me. Ah well, file alongside the self-stirring cuppa, I think. [Dezeen]

[Product Page via BornRich]

For those of you who think that toilets shouldn't even be seen, let alone heard, Californian remodeling firm Julien asked Troy Adams Design to come up with a secret loo that doubles as a "Powder Room Bench." Slide the wooden cover over the pedestal when you want it hidden away, slide it back to reveal your secret toilet in all its glory. What's the point? I mean, if you're really, truly embarrassed by bodily functions, you could just not "do" anything. And then you'd explode. And that would be nice, wouldn't it? – Ad Dugdale

Product Page [Julien via Remodelling Online]

Thanks for the tip, Blakeley!

Presumably the baby faces inside the stall and not out, which would make for quite a strange greeting as fellow dump-ateers enter the facilities. Of course you could save a few bucks and just hang your baby from that coat-rack thing like John Biggs does, but his wife banned him from ever leaving the house again.

Bonus caption contest: tell us what each of those babies are thinking. Winner gets an autographed photo of Biggs on the toilet. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Mommysentials via Baby Gadget via Gearlog via Boing Boing]

The urinal doesn't enclose, meaning you still see people peeing, but have the peece of mind (couldn't help it) that they are peeing in a sanitary, regulated area. When the urinals are not in use (daytime), they are lowered to the underground.

Hit the jump for a fantastic, voyeuristic pee video that also demonstrates the Urilift in action.

The World's Most High Tech Urinal [johnchow]

Product Page [Via funfurde]

This might be a great device for those of us who really don't want to touch anything in a public bathroom, and don't much like standing around for 30 seconds at a noisy hot air blower waiting for the hands to dry. – Charlie White

Dyson goes 400mph in toilet [The Sun]

On Target [Yanko Design]