urinal
Design
Axixa Urinal Encourages You To Pee On The Side Of Buildings
3:20AM Sean Fallon | Hey, if they don’t want us using the city as a toilet, they should make more public bathrooms right? Axixa provides an easy solution to peeing in the city while maintaining that invigorating outdoorsy experience. More »
Gadgets
UroClub Lets Golfers Go Pee-Pee in Public
2:20AM Benny Goldman | Ever been on the golf course, knocking back a few beers, when nature calls? It may be against club rules to duck into the rough for a leak—that’s why the UroClub, developed by awesome urologist Floyd Seskin, is an answer to your prayers. Just place an inconspicuous towel over your junk, unscrew the cap of the club disguised to look like a 7-iron, and whiz away—up to half a liter. When you’re done, stick the leak-proof club back in your bag and take your next shot. The UroClub costs US$50, a small price if you don’t want to look like the guy below. [UroClub via Keith Olbermann] More »
Gadgets
Peeandgo, The Lady Urinal with a Splash of Gold
9:59PM Gizmodo US Edition | You may be forgiven for thinking it’s toilet week here on Giz, but how could we not show you this? The Peeandgo, designed by Chen-Karlsson takes its inspiration from traditional squat urinals in Asia and the Middle East, and I’m guessing its *ahem* provocative shape is designed to stop splashback. There’s no info on pricing, or indeed on whether that’s real gold, so it looks like a design prototype. It’s nice to see a rethink, and a bit of luxury devoted to the oft-ignored porcelain things in the bathroom, but, ladies of Giz, do you think this design is actually convenient nowadays? [Belowtheclouds via Likecool]
Gadgets
AMXD Puts Fighter Pilots’ Piddle Packs Out of Business
9:05PM Gizmodo US Edition | Please, cease your screaming at the back, ladies, and feast your eyes on the AMXD, aka the “piddle pack.” Developed by a Vermont firm, the trunks have a built-in hose and pump (stop boasting, I’ve heard it all before) which allows fighter pilots to relieve themselves during missions. Until the AMXD, or Advanced Mission Extender Device, came along, the fliers had three options open: diapers; keep it all in, causing potential bladder damage; or let it all out, running the risk of debilitating headaches—or even crashing the plane. More below. More »
Gadgets
The Handler Tackles Germs So You Don’t Have To
4:11PM Nick Broughall | We’ve all had that moment. you know, where you’re standing next to some guy in a urinal… You finish at the same time, and as you walk over to the sink to wash your hands, he storms straight to the door, opens it without a care in the world, and thankfully leaves your life forever. After you dry your hands you look at the door handle and it’s wet. Eeeewwwww! How to open the door now becomes an adventure in ingenuity. Can you use paper towel or toilet paper? How about your shoe? Do you wait for somebody else to come in? Or do you just suck it up and power out through the door, hoping to find the guy who essentially pissed on the door handle so you can pat him on the back of his expensive Armani suit to get your own payback? None of the above, if you own a “Handler” keyring. It has a fold out arm that’s (apparently) made with “microscopic nanoparticles” that kill 99 percent of germs on contact. It’s available in a selection of colours, too, so you can be relatively trendy while displaying the first signs of OCD. You can get yours from Rushfaster for just $14.95. And while I’m just a little bit sceptical, if it does protect you from inadvertantly eating somebody else’s bodily waste after your next trip to the bathroom, I’m all for it. [Rushfaster] More »
Robots
Cute Elephant Robot Drinks Human Urine
9:00AM Sean Fallon | Those crazy inventors over at Mertec in Japan have recently unveiled their newest creation—a robot elephant designed to clean urinals. The man behind the unique design claims that the elephant theme came to him because he imagined the trunk as “a powerful reversal of the urinal drain.” The idea of reversal is even represented in the robot’s brand name “DCBA” (ABCD). Mertec claims that DCBA can clean a urinal in 10 seconds and save 8 litres of water in the process. All I know is that if I ever travel to Japan and see one of these things patrolling a bathroom, I’m keeping my junk tucked safely in my pants. [Impress via 3yen] More »
Vehicles
Urinals Coming to Airplanes, Beware the Golden Shower Turbulence
8:15PM Addy Dugdale | 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 doors. More »
Gadgets
Crazy Singing Clown Urinal Makes Us Go HAHAHAARRGHHSTOPDOINGTHAT!
10:56PM Jesus Diaz | This Japanese mechanical urinal in Osaka is an all-laughing, all-singing clown with a huge mouth. Yes, you read that well: it sings and moves up and down as you pee in it. And it has teeth. I know. After seeing it in action, I found it so wrong on so many levels that I had to put the video after the jump for other sensitive souls like me. More »
Random Stuff
Urinal Headrest Invention Would Make Thomas Edison Proud
4:50AM Adam Frucci | 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 urinal? I know I certainly have. Come on, manufacturers. Let’s make this one happen so drunks everywhere can pee with a bit more comfort and a little less dignity. Update: Reader Evan Ryan just sent us a picture of a very similar contraption that he and his frat brothers, generally known to be the smartest people on any college campus, rigged up at their house at University of Illinois. They’re currently preparing a lawsuit. Click through to check it out. More »
_
