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Well, here's something you don't expect to see in the listing for a house on a real estate website: a toilet equipped with a pedal-powered contraption that drags toilet paper across your filthy bits, allowing you to wipe hands free. And, one assumes, leaving a train of vile used TP behind your toilet.
Posted by Nick Broughall at 1:38 PM on February 29, 2008
Posted by Nick Broughall at 10:19 AM on February 18, 2008
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.
[BBC News via TFOT]
The Air Poo is everything Apple could stuff into a toilet, minus OS X. The multi-touch flushpad intuitively uses one finger swipe to send no. 1 down the pipes and two fingers for no. 2, which its built-in iPod dock and surround sound masks with "crystal clear highs and bowel-shaking lows."
This toilet paper printed with manga, trivia and astronomy facts has the potential to change civilization as we know it, affecting generations to come and catapulting Humanity to the Stars. Or maybe destroy the planet. It can go either way, really. It's Japan-only for now, but we demand this ingenious way to educate millions of people while disposing of their metabolism byproducts gets marketed worldwide at once. And yes, the porn version is probably coming sooner than later. [Anime Center via Gizmodo Japan]
As an adult, bathroom activity is meant to be a solitary experience - well, usually - but when kids are first learning to use the toilet, they want everyone and their mother to join them. The Potty Watch from Potty Time puts an end to group potty sessions as it alerts your toddler with music and lights every 30, 60 or 90 minutes to pay a visit to the porcelain throne. The watch is available in pink, blue and green for $US10, which seems too small a price to pay to never hear the words "I gotta go potty" again. [UberGizmo]
Other than the iPod dock toilet paper speaker we thoroughly tested, there hasn't been any real advancement in the area of arse wiping technology in the past few years. This Hello Kitty dispenser changes everything with its automated dispensing unit that lets you program exactly how many sheets you want for your next wipe—which may sound useful, but doesn't quite account for when you've got hard, rocky poops followed by soft, liquidy ones. But when you slap a Hello Kitty logo and an automated turning mechanism onto something, you're pretty much pounding on the Nobel Prize committee's collective door and asking for the cash. [Kitty Hell]
