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Pillet TP Holder Becomes A Lamp When You Squeeze The Charmin

Sean Fallon — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:00:00 +0000

Designer Miguel Melgarejo’s Axixia building urinal was absurd, but he truly outdid himself with the Pillet energy-generating toilet paper holder/lamp.

A lot of designers these days are looking at ways we can harness wasted energy in the home to supplement our energy needs, but the TP roll might be going a little too far. The idea is to harness the spinning motion of the toilet paper roll to generate electricity that powers the unit’s secondary function as a portable lamp. Needless to say, the practicality of such a device is questionable. I mean, keeping this thing powered up would require more chilli and cheese than I am willing to eat. [Miguel Melgarejo via The Design Blog]

Portable Toilet Speakers For Music That Sounds Like Sh*t

Sean Fallon — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:40:00 +0000

Audiophiles avert your eyes (and ears). These shape of these little 2-watt speakers is probably a good indicator of the sound quality. Then again, country some music was meant to be played on speakers like this. [Chinagrabber via Technabob]

Just Don’t Drop It In The Toilet

Matt Buchanan — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0000

Oops. [Interbent]

The Thinnest Buildings In The World Come With Toilets To Match

Jesus Diaz — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:40:00 +0000

We knew that Japan probably has the thinnest houses in the world. Of course, the toilets match. Just looking at the girl inside makes me anxious:

More anxious and claustrophobic than the Death Star trash compactor. [Bouncing Red Ball]

Greenpeace iPhone App Helps You Find The Best Recycled Toilet Paper

Sean Fallon — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Despite butting heads with Apple in the past, Greenpeace is jumping on the iPhone bandwagon with an app based on their Recycled Tissue and Toilet Paper Guide.

Essentially, the app gives iPhone users a quick and handy guide to finding the greenest toilet paper, tissues, paper towels, and paper napkins sold at the supermarket. Ideally, the best products contain 100 percent recycled content (at least 50 percent of which is from post-consumer materials) and avoid the use of chlorine or chlorine compounds in the whitening process. Products that meet this criteria include Green Forest, Natural Value and Seventh Generation while products from companies like Kleenex, Charmin, Angel Soft, Cottonelle, Brawny, and Scott fall short.

Oh yes…there’s an app for that. Thankfully, it’s also free. And don’t forget that Mother Earth cries when you use too much TP. Conserve paper by wiping with one square—both sides. [iTunes]

Pedal-Powered Toilet-Paper-Wiper Brings Both Laziness and Exercise to the Bathroom

Adam Frucci — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:00:00 +0000

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.

I’ve got to assume that this thing was made for someone without use of their hands, such as a double amputee, as it certainly doesn’t make the wiping process any more convenient. Furthermore, no germaphobe would accept the tradeoff of keeping clean hands for having a roll of feces-smattered toilet paper just sitting there behind their toilet. Why else would this thing exist? And really, the more I look at it the more I get confused about how exactly it functions. What about when you’re actually going? Doesn’t it get in the way?

Someone, please, step in and explain this to me. I’m having trouble here. [Make via Boing Boing Gadgets]

Write Crap On The Crapper

Nick Broughall — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:38:25 +0000

The best ideas often come to you at the most unfortunate times. In the shower, while you’re driving or sometimes while you’re taking your morning sabbatical, these inspired thoughts generally intrude whenever you don’t have a pen and paper handy to write it down.

Well, cross the last one off that list. The Porcelain Throne is now the perfect place to invent a world-changing invention, thanks to WCNotes, a practical toilet paper holder that also doubles as a pen holder. Convenient, no?

Now you can write the great Australian novel, finish that Soduku puzzle in the paper, jot down you plans for world domination or simply write witty message for the next person to use the can. And because the paper’s right there, you have everything you need to do all these things.

It’s actually surprising nobody thought of this sooner. I’m guessing that the designers actually thought of the idea while they were on the crapper, too. It’s always the way…

[Yanko Design]

Pee On The Toilet Seat Without Fear Of Reprisal Thanks To Aussie Science

Nick Broughall — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:19:39 +0000

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]

If Apple Made a Toilet: Air Poo, With Multi-Touch

Matt Buchanan — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:40:34 +0000

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.”

There’s a dock for the “greatest laptop available” for potty-surfing, and of course, a heated toilet seat to keep your bum toasty for as long as your MacBook Air battery lasts. It’s rumored that the next firmware update will bring cushioned ass-wiping with faux GPS for incredibly accurate strokes to the feature list, for only $20. [Air Poo]

Printed Toilet Paper Flushes Humanity Down the Tubes, Again

Jesus Diaz — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:00:59 +0000

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]