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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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Urinals Coming to Airplanes, Beware the Golden Shower Turbulence

This is a pic of the urinals at Stockholm's Arlanda airport, courtesy of urinal.net, but if a German design company has its way, pissoirs will soon be a feature of passenger jets. Dassler Interiors has designed one-man urinals designed to stand alongside (sorry) the existing cubicle toilets on planes—let's just hope that they come with doors.
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Urinal Headrest Invention Would Make Thomas Edison Proud

This, my friends, is the greatest patent the world has ever known. Brilliant in its simplicity, it's a headrest for placement above urinals. I mean, haven't we all been in a state where we would just love to take a quick nap while peeing, but worried about the cleanliness/comfort of the tiled wall above the urinal? I know I certainly have. Come on, manufacturers. Let's make this one happen so drunks everywhere can pee with a bit more comfort and a little less dignity.

Update: Reader Evan Ryan just sent us a picture of a very similar contraption that he and his frat brothers, generally known to be the smartest people on any college campus, rigged up at their house at University of Illinois. They're currently preparing a lawsuit. Click through to check it out. More »

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Gold Man Toilet Attachment Thinks It's a Urinal

Gold Man promises to turn your ordinary toilet into a urinal. When it's time to pee, just place the Gold Man on the toilet, and there you have it, a big porthole for your piss that supposedly keeps all that messy splashing off the bathroom floor, walls and ceiling. When you're done, you simply place the Gold Man back on its specially made base that sits next to the toilet. More »

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Talking Urinal Cakes Discourage Drunks, Deliver Urgent Messages

It's the perfect place to reach those who are spiraling down that path to drunkenness: a urinal, where guys who are merely renting beer are returning its effervescent byproducts whence they came. The weird thing is, this urinal cake actually talks. As soon as it senses motion, a disembodied voiceover babe talks to your penis thusly:
"Hey there, big guy. Having a few drinks? It's time to call a cab or ask a sober friend for a ride home."
Good message, but what an odd medium to deliver it! Captive audience, indeed. But we see all this urinal-based nagging as a slippery slope. Next, these little piss catchers will be singing us beer jingles. More »

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Urilift: Pee in the Street (Without a Ticket)

The Urilift is Europe's $75,000 solution to drunken men peeing in the streets...in which drunken men still pee in the street... More »

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Urinal Sculptures, Still Just'a Peein'

What a better way to say good morning on a Friday than with fun and unique urinal sculptures. These pieces of art are designed to be placed in the bathrooms of art museums and they range from $6,500 to $10,500 if you feel ever-so-compelled to take one home. It's just like being drunk and peeing in the flowers, but this time you aren't killing the flowers! Sorry, ladies. The artist behind these urinals is obviously sexist and doesn't want you to partake in any of the fun. More »

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Talking Urinal, Let the Insults Fly

Just when I thought I was safe using my Securipee to stop the bathroom ridicule, now I have to deal with the actual urinal insulting my manhood. The Wizmark Urinal Communicator was created by Dr. Richard Deutsch—great use of that doctorate. It is a disposable drain cover that will sense a visitor and respond by playing a prerecorded message. It can play back any kind of a message—one county in New York is using the device to play public service announcements against drunk driving. More »

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Pee Goal

As a World Cup mania sweeps everywhere in the world but the good old US of A., you might be hearing shouting from men's rooms across the world, yelling Goooooooaaaaaaaalllll! The pee goal has a little ball on a string hanging in front of its wee soccer goal, inviting sporting gentlemen to try their hand at scoring the big one. Or small one, as the case may be. More »

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Flower Shaped Urinals, For When Nature Really Calls

Innovations in urinals are usually technological: they flush faster, quieter, more automatically, less wastefully; they massage you in all the right places and take your temperature and such. That's all fun and games... but California artist Clark Sorensen doesn't care for all that hi-tech stuff. Instead, he wants to make you pee in a pretty flower. More »