How many of you actually clean the toilet? How many of you have a loving partner who does it for you? I thought so. Well, You can say goodbye to those angry sighs, muffled curses and questions of your ability to shoot straight. Australian scientists have come up with a coating containing miniature robots nanoparticles that will take over the scrubbing, washing and disinfecting of your bathroom.
The coating contains tiny particles of titanium dioxide, which gets very excited by UV light – so much so that they can break down organic compounds and kill bacteria like E. coli. I’m not sure if anyone has noted that a human’s backside is made of an organic compound though, so you’d be using this at your own risk.
In any case, the result of exciting these particles is an oxidising energy which far surpasses that of your standard bathroom cleaner, bleach. And that means that no matter how hot the curry, your toilet is always going to look and smell sparkling fresh.
Scared of glowy toilet seats...
February 18, 2008 at 1:42 PM
My toilet already gets excited by UV light – it seems to have a glow in the dark toliet seat.
The first time I saw it glow in the dark it freaked me out – but I was a few beers under at the time…..
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February 18, 2008 at 2:37 PM
I’m not sure this is a new story. If you go to printable version on the BBC site it dates the story as 2006. I wonder why they’ve republished it.
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February 19, 2008 at 9:53 PM
Since there is no mention of where the activating UV light is coming from, I can only assume that the Aussie scientists consider the sun to be shining from everyone’s backside. But then, if it does, killing every bug this side of Toowoomba, who needs Ti02.
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