Tag: TOILET

We all feel a certain degree of attachment to our phones, but most people probably wouldn't be willing to stick their arms down a public toilet to retrieve their submerged cells. This anonymous guy from China, however, is apparently not "most people." After dropping his phone in a toilet (not as rare an event as you'd think) in China's Jiangsu province, the man decided to go fishing for it with ...

A U.K. industrial design student has discovered a way to harness energy each time a toilet is flushed or a bathtub is drained. According to Creative Boom, Tom Broadbent's HighDro Power works much like a miniature hydroelectric dam, inside your building's sewage pipes. When water drains from a toilet, tub, sink or any other appliance, it travels down the pipes, through the device and spins four ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. Cumulatively, ...

Usually, the Japanese put the U.S. (and most of the Western world) to shame when it comes to top-notch tech. They've got all the advanced robots, phones with crazy features, and of course, mind-blowing toilets. While we're stuck with water-wasting, cold and emotionless porcelain devices that do nothing other than flush away human waste, the Japanese get lavatories with automatic, heated seats, ...

Imagine 13 people living in a cramped space with a broken toilet. While it might be tolerable for a few years in college, it's just plain miserable if you're in outer space. Or so we'd imagine, anyway. After all, it's pretty tough to find a plumber who will make a house call out there. According to BBC News, the International Space Station's main toilet (pictured at right) is broken. Endeavor's ...

We love you Twitter, we really do, but we're beginning to think we need a little space. Not a breakup, per say, but a break. No, it's not the Oprah thing. No, it's not even Ashton and Demi. That's very nice of you to offer to kick them off, we appreciate it. What is it then? Well, to be honest, it's the toilet. ...

If you're looking for a state-of-the-art commode it would be hard to top the Quattro, St. Thomas Creations' super toilet that can flush anything. Some creative students at Arizona State University, though, have designed a new model that will aesthetically, if not functionally, challenge the mega-flushing Quattro. The 'Go with the Flo,' which won an award at the Northwest Design Invitational, ...

Have you ever needed to unload a couple pounds of "carrots" in a hurry but didn't flush them because you were worried they might get stuck in your toilet? Worry no more, because St. Thomas Creations has a product for you and everyone else who has difficulty finding a commode capable of handling their needs. The company lauds its Quattro Flushing Technology as "the most advanced flushing system ...

Leave it to our clever, if bizarre, Japanese friends to come up with the NoPoPo battery. According to Unplggd, the battery gets power when one of several fluids mixes together with its magnesium and carbon components. Among those fluids are beer, saliva and -- that's right -- urine. Apparently, those unlikely charging agents help the batteries to live for as long as ten years. And the bizarre ...

Have you ever come out of a rigorous session in the stall and said, "I feel like I've lost five pounds"? No? Well, have you ever been curious about how much weight you're actually losing after spending some quality time on the can? Still no, huh? Well, even if none of you will admit it, we know there's one person out there who cares -- artist Haikun Deng. Dubbed "Light Girl," the toilet seat is ...

You've got to have questionable character to steal from anybody, but it takes a special type of person (without any respect for humanity) to prey on a 91-year-old woman. That's exactly what a thief in New Jersey did this week after posing as a water inspector to get into the senior's apartment and rob her blind, NJ.com reports. What he did next would be funny if it weren't so cruel. After ...

How much is your cell phone worth to you? If you lose it, do you just curse a few times and decide to pay for a replacement? Or, do you risk life and limb trying to get it back? A 26-year-old man went for option B, and ended up getting his arm caught in a toilet for two hours. The man, a passenger on a French high speed TGV train, apparently dropped his phone into the toilet. When he tried ...

We already know that a solid chunk of Britons use mobile internet while in the throes of passion, and now Captain Obvious (today known as Nokia) has awkwardly landed to tell the world that Americans do too. A recent survey, which we can only imagine was absolutely thrilling to conduct, found that some 53-percent of working Americans "have been interrupted by a work-related phone call or e-mail ...

Fed up with vandals and people who don't light a match after dropping the kids off at the pool, the Finish government has started locking the country's public, roadside toilets. Signs posted outside inform the user that in order to unlock the lavatory, one must text the word "open" (in Finish) to a short code and the door will be unlocked remotely. The system will allow police to track down ...

The bathroom is a very private place. To some, it's a relaxing getaway. To others, it's a necessary evil. No matter how you look at the bathroom, here are some gadgets that can make your experience more productive, entertaining, or even less stinky. Oral-B Triumph with SmartGuide Get ready for your toothbrush to wear the pants in your oral hygene relationship. The Triumph with SmartGuide, ...