Urinals

Paris’ Solution to Its Public Urination Problem Is Open-Air Piss Boxes

Paris officials are hoping to curb public urination by encouraging slightly less-public urination. The city government first tried to discourage people from peeing in the streets with the installation of public toilets, or “pissoirs,” on major boulevards in the 1830s. But people have continued to relieve themselves on streets—so site-seeing historic architecture can often come…

Health Jennings Brown Aug 15

Finally, Your Action Figures Have a Place to Pee

You can equip your action figures with all manner of vehicles, weapons, fortresses, and accessories needed to conquer baddies and/or take over the world. But conquering a full bladder? For some reason that problem is only finally being addressed in the year 2017 with these long-overdue action figure-sized potties. Designed for use with 12-inch tall…

io9 Andrew Liszewski Aug 8

Extremely Bad Reasons Why Waterless Urinals Were Illegal

We take it for granted that urinals flush. With each pull of the lever, gallons of clean water come to whisk away a few ounces of pee. If you think about it, it’s actually pretty wasteful, and the current drought is convincing facilities to consider waterless urinals. But these waterless bathroom contraptions have had to…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Jun 12

Who Needs a Breathalyzer When a Urinal Can Tell How Drunk You Are?

Here’s a brilliant idea that could prevent countless drunk driving-related deaths from occurring. Working with a marketing agency called DDB, Zouk, a popular nightclub in Singapore, installed a series of urinals that are able to monitor a patron’s blood alcohol level and warn them if they’re too drunk to drive. It starts when a club…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 18

Would This New Urinal Design Make Men Wash Their Hands?

Here’s a problem about guys: many of us don’t wash our hands after using the restroom. It might be general grossness or everyman laziness or being too trusting your own hygiene or being too drunk or taking on a drive through mentality with a urinal but if you monitor a men’s restroom, you’ll see many…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 8

Pee Pro Urinal Target Turns Your Toilet Into a Carnival Game

The easiest way to get anyone to do anything is to make the task fun and enjoyable. And while it’s sad that gents have to be coerced into properly using a urinal, the Pee Pro promises to promote accuracy by encouraging every user to be as on-target as possible. Priced at just $16 it’s exactly…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 28

House of Representatives’ Urinal Explosion Drenches the Press

You just can’t make this stuff up. According to the National Journal, something exploded and the press room was soon inundated by liquid matter. Something suddenly broke in the piping of the third-floor urinal, and water began spewing from beneath the men’s room door. As the water flowed, it first surrounded the Associated Press’s working…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 4

Men Can’t Resist Pissing on Pictures of Insects in Urinals

According to University of Illinois professor May Berenbaum, men “have a deep-seated instinct to aim at targets” in the urinary sense. Logically, sticking a picture on the back of a urinal will cause men to aim for it like lemmings. This is where the Thermal Urinal Fly comes in. These Japanese creations are thermally-sensitive, so…

Tech News Adrian Covert Aug 16

A Urinal for Girls Could Help Us Reach Restroom Line Equality

Not only do girls have to deal with assholes like us guys but their bathroom lines are ridiculously long. You know what would make the lines faster? Urinals for girls. I’m serious. It’s a thing. Called the Pollee, it only exists in concept form but there’s three different prototypes: Pollee Shy, Pollee Topless and Pollee…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 18

Water Plants with Your Pee

I’ve peed on a ton of bushes before and I’m pretty sure I scarred those bushes forever. But! If I were to use this filtration system that pumps pee from a urinal to water plants…I’d totally be helping the environment. The system, called When Nature Calls, is in the concept stages right now but the…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 20

Color the Walls with Your Pee

I’ve seen some crazy urinals in my day but none top the potential addicting awesomeness of this thermochromic urinal. The trough-styled urinal takes peeing to the next level with a heat sensitive wall that changes colors to reflect the temperature change. Red, Orange, Yellow? How hot can you get it? Imagine the piss art possibilities…

Tech News Casey Chan May 2

The Battle of the Waterless Urinal

On one side, you have a flush-less urinal design that could save immense resources. On the other, you have a few unsuccessful case studies and an army of angry plumbers. It’s an interesting read over at: [Wired]

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 19

Frightening Urinals From Around the World

This montage of silly urinals brings into question one of my most diligently enforced personal rules: Never pee on anything that has teeth.

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 5

Trash Can Urinal Is a Disgusting Solution to a Disgusting Problem

Drunk people! They pee everywhere. So what is a town to do, about all this urine? How about they install public urinals, disguised as trash cans? Yes. How about that. The Wheelie Bin Urinal concept, which I shouldn’t have to tell you came from England, came from England, the only country where public micturation is…

Tech News John Herrman Dec 9

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…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jun 8

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…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Apr 16

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…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Dec 3

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…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 15

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…

Gadgets Charlie White Feb 12

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… 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…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 19

Urinals

Paris’ Solution to Its Public Urination Problem Is Open-Air Piss Boxes

Finally, Your Action Figures Have a Place to Pee

Extremely Bad Reasons Why Waterless Urinals Were Illegal

Who Needs a Breathalyzer When a Urinal Can Tell How Drunk You Are?

Would This New Urinal Design Make Men Wash Their Hands?

Pee Pro Urinal Target Turns Your Toilet Into a Carnival Game

House of Representatives’ Urinal Explosion Drenches the Press

Men Can’t Resist Pissing on Pictures of Insects in Urinals

A Urinal for Girls Could Help Us Reach Restroom Line Equality

Water Plants with Your Pee

Color the Walls with Your Pee

The Battle of the Waterless Urinal

Frightening Urinals From Around the World

Trash Can Urinal Is a Disgusting Solution to a Disgusting Problem

ONDA Urinal Concept Changes the Question: Did You Wash Yours Hands While Going to the Bathroom?

Urinals Coming to Airplanes, Beware the Golden Shower Turbulence

Urinal Headrest Invention Would Make Thomas Edison Proud

Gold Man Toilet Attachment Thinks It’s a Urinal

Talking Urinal Cakes Discourage Drunks, Deliver Urgent Messages

Urilift: Pee in the Street (Without a Ticket)

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