Gizmodo: urine

Urinating USB Wee Man Is Number One

Sean Fallon — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:00:00 EDT

Wee Man is number one alright. Not only does he urinate when plugged into your computer, he just might be the most useless product Thanko has ever devised—and that's saying something.

Fill up the tank with water, plug it in (or insert batteries) and he pees. That's it. But won't that get water all over my desk and my equipment? Yeah, probably—put out a dish or something. Thanko can't do everything for you. Besides, the sound will be soothing...like a fountain. Parched? Go ahead and have a drink. I've changed my mind, this is the most useful product ever. [Thanko via Gearfuse]

Urination Is Where We Draw the Line on Home Beauty Products

Mark Wilson — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:00:00 EDT

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.You know what they say: Nothing takes the callouses off like fastening plastic bags filled with urine around your feet.

The Foot Pee! Pack, essentially two ziplock bags intended for your feet, supports an age-old philosophy that one's pee can have benefits to their skin. Now I'm no expert, but I've been accidentally urinating on stuff for years now, and I can't say that my crotch, toes, knees, backyard bushes or bathroom walls look any younger because of it. [Toyko Times via Tokyo Mango]

Also note the products tagline: "Easy & Surprise"

Piss Glass Makes Drinking Apple Juice Fun

Sean Fallon — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:40:00 EST

Hey, when I throw a party, it's only the finest for my guests. That means boxed wine and all the cheap beer you can drink served in these elegant Piss Glasses. [Donkey Products via Szymon]

Astronauts Jiggle ISS Water Recycler Handle But Crew Can't Drink Pee Just Yet

Jack Loftus — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:31:00 EST

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!

An early fix was attempted today by shuttle captain Michael Fincke and fellow astronaut Don Pettit (*no $100,000 tool bags were harmed in the making of this repair). The two astronauts reported hearing a "new sound" from the machine after the repair, and three hours later it shut down again. It was able to process "about a gallon of urine" in that time period. Under optimal conditions, the recycler is supposed to run four hours a pop.

Now, we joke about drinking urine, but this is actually a pretty serious issue—especially if the ISS crew is going to double from three to six in 2009 as planned. Theoretical missions to Mars will also rely on the prototype, because water is heavy, and lugging it between planets is prohibitively expensive.

And, making matters worse is the fact that this urine-cleansing uber-gadget is one-of-a-kind. There is no cosmic Home Depot that NASA can go to for a replacement.

"We haven't started talking about when we'd stop troubleshooting on orbit and decide to bring the unit home," Courtenay McMillan said. "That's a pretty big decision to make." Indeed. And so is taking that first sip of urine water. Cheers! [MSNBC]

Sink + Toilet Makes Dirty Hippies Happy

Jason Chen — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:30:54 EDT

If you care at all for the environment, you're probably taking 2 minute showers, using recycled paper, and drive a hybrid car, which leaves plenty of water, paper, and fuel for those of us who are too lazy to care. But for you, the environmentally conscious bunch, we present the Sinkpositive. It's a sink on top of a toilet, which uses the tank (is that what it's called?) water for hand washing before using it again for poop flushing.

Of course, we only recommend this for married people, since most non-hippy women would probably bolt when seeing this mounted on your toilet. On the other hand, imagine how much fun it would be to pee into the top and bottom and see urine be used to flush urine. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Sinkpositive via Core77]

Battery Passes Urine Test, Running 90 Minutes On Pee

Charlie White — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:45:00 EST

Who knew you could use urine to power a battery? The Pee Battery uses the ions in human urine to keep 1.5 volts streaming for 90 minutes, and its makers say it can be tweaked to last even longer. They're even saying that all other bodily fluids work equally well. Sounds like an unpleasant way to get that iPod working again.

These are some batteries that would certainly pass our USB Piss Test. Rig 'em up to power gaming consoles, and we could have ourselves a Pee Wii. – Charlie White

Pee Powered Battery [Weird Asia News]

Uturn Tells You When It's Time to See a Man About a Horse

Travis Hudson — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:10:36 EDT

Basically a graduating student does this project, right? Only she's really gotta go to the can so she gets her inspiration from it. She makes this device that looks really weird that sits on your stomach. It uses ultrasound and bluetooth to find out when your bladder is full then it lets you know it's time to go piss. Then someone from the Business School comes across it during one of those cross-pollenation programs always happening at universities nowadays. He decides there is money to be made by marketing this as a medical device. But at the same time doesn't want it to lose the grad student appeal that made it so great to begin with, and takes a picture of it with this model who probably pees quite normally. And that, in an imaginary way, is how you get this piece of equipment for people suffering from incontinence.

Uturn
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Pee Battery

johnb — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:13:42 EDT

Besides being a great and invigorating morning tonic, your urine can now be used to power electronic devices. Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering, in an effort to make everything as clean as possible, is working on a urine-powered biobattery:

When a drop of urine is added to the copper chloride paper, a chemical reaction takes place and produces electricity, which is harnessed by the battery. A few drops will generate about 1.5 volts, the same as a AA battery. The battery needs to be developed further to make it commercially viable.

The devices will be used in medical testing systems which can be powered by and test the same liquid stream simultaneously. If only my bed was urine powered. I could fly to the moon! [Thanks, Karl!]

Power of Pee Runs a Battery [Yahoo.com]

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