The bathroom of the future is going to make your electric toothbrush look decidedly low-tech. A futurologist has predicted that in less than 25 years smart mirrors could perform health checks, while robots will be able to do a person’s make-up and even paint their nails.
Continue reading… “The smart bathroom of the future”
Because everyone knows that business success relies on linking your brand to bodily waste, here is a urinal in Brazil from Billboard that lets you shred while peeing.
The face-melting bathroom fixture, conceived by ad agency Almap BBDO and 3-D modeled by Cricket Design, is making the rounds this summer of several bars in São Paulo. As you can see, “Guitar Pee” looks like a regular urinal with a fretboard sticking out of its top and an ominous electric cord connected to an amp on the wall. Make sure you’re wearing rubber-soled shoes before whipping it out, lads!
Continue reading… “Guitar Urinal adds music to the experience”
Pee n Play.
This urinal video game allows you to control a slalom skier via *ahem* your stream, as you try to reach the finish line before you’re finished emptying your bladder. And while this might sound like fun after lifting a few pints, I can’t imagine it’s going to last long in the typical men’s bathroom, what with all the graffiti artists and *ahem* wetness everywhere…
Continue reading… “Urinal video games are a ridiculous reality”
Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011
The Gota’ Go Personal Care Device is a concealed, catheterlike device to accommodate, permit, and retain male urination in situations where a bathroom break is not possible or desirable. The design intent is that the Gota’ Go Personal Care Device would have wide application in situations ranging from male incontinence to law enforcement to long-haul trucking.
Continue reading… “The Gota’Go™ Personal Care Device for use when a bathroom break is not possible”
Swarovski-studded toilet
Here is a collection of the most extreme toilets in the world that do anything from play music, check your blood pressure or warm your feet. You can treat your backside to the finest materials and technology that money can buy. The toilets are decked out in precious metals and gadgets that can handle everything from entertainment to keeping tabs on our health. If you are still going to the bathroom in a regular toilet, you simply aren’t living life to the fullest.
Continue reading… “Most Extreme Toilets in the World”
Glow in the dark toilet paper
Do you stumble around in the bathroom at night when you don’t want to wake up your significant other with the light? Well, no more! Say hello to glow-in-the-dark toilet paper.
Continue reading… “Glow-In-The-Dark Toilet Paper”
Perhaps a little tart in the bathroom?
The Liberty Village restaurant proposes its modern bathrooms become one of the “101 places to have sex before you die.”
Is this the toilet seat that Darth Vader would chose for his personal quarters on the Death Star? I personally think that, being a busy little bee, the Dark Lord has someone else to go for him, but you’ve got to wonder whether he was the inspiration for danish firm Pressalit’s self-closing toilet seat. Continue reading… “AutoClose Toilet Seat”
Can’t get your sweet tooth off your mind? Wear it on your head instead! The strawberries and cream hat is fun, flirty, and not as tacky as you might expect! Before toting it to a fashionable event, I would double check the dresscode – but this is a fashion statement perfectly suited to bake sales! (PICS)
Continue reading… “Top 10 Most Fun and Crazy Hats”
Slip Sliding Away
What a rush when you flush!
Georgia Max Coffee chose to redesign the toilets of a number of key ski resorts in Japan. The cubicles were fully wrapped on all sides, so that the person caught short would have a ski jumper’s view when they were sitting on the loo. The person could look down at their skis (simply printed on the floor of the cubicle) and see the steep ski jump slope ahead of them.
Logical Zebra writes “Australia, in an effort to curb water use during a drought, is proposing a new tax. Households would be charged per flush of the toilet. Continue reading… “Tax On Toilet Flushes”
For three years, neighbors in a quaint, middle-class community scarcely saw the lanky 16-year-old boy who lived with his adoptive mother and her boyfriend.
Now, they know why: According to authorities, the teen was brutally abused and held captive in his own home. Most recently, he’d been confined to a bathroom, locked from the outside and sealed with a piece of plywood over the window. Continue reading… “Teen Kept In Bathroom”
