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Toilet of the future? You might want to sit down for this
2013-12-10
Despite its relatively staid presence in industrialized regions like the United States and Western Europe, the toilet could stand a technological makeover. Three up-and-coming industrial designers may have found just the thing that the modern toilet needs to remain abreast of technological innovation, as they recently demonstrated with an award-winning prototype for a new kind of toilet that subtly reconfigures the user's posture while providing a plethora of biometric feedback.

In honor of World Toilet Day last month, three students from Central St Martin’s College at the University of Arts London — Sam Sheard, Pierre Papet, and Victor Johansson — took part in a competition that was put on by the U.K.-based plumbing company Dyno-Rod Drains. The objective? To design "the toilet of the future" and help "raise awareness on how we can upgrade the current 130 year old flush toilet to one that benefits our health and the environment."

Looks like the flower vase , we have in our foyer...hmmmm, time to remodel ?
Posted by:Au Auric

#13  

Mounting this thing looks challenging. No lawyers on the design team!

Let's see. Step up, gingerly turn around, hands on rim, yuck, no, that ain't going to work. Go for it. Whack. OK so far. Now to get up. WTF. Help!!

Lot of lawsuits here!
Posted by: KBK   2013-12-10 19:58  

#12  I can see it now. Men will pee allover it. Unisex toilet police needed. OH!, men will be required to sit. Now I get it.
Posted by: Dale   2013-12-10 17:00  

#11  Put the biometeric toilets in the doctors office. Then we can go in, drop a load, and leave them to deal with the data on their own time. Perfect metaphor for what Obamacare is doing to doctors anyway.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2013-12-10 14:59  

#10  Lot of people used to burn shit for fuel - at least dried herbivore shit like cow & bison chips.
Posted by: Glenmore   2013-12-10 12:14  

#9  burned a lot of shit in the Nam
Posted by: bman   2013-12-10 10:55  

#8  Designed by women and Uncle Timmy Sitzpinklern with a trendy Asian influence. Looks like a wide stance is in order.

Biometric feedback, eh? I wonder who's getting the feedback?

Hey. Guys, InstaDNA says Abu Hotstuff al Hood just took a dump. And the vid feed shows he's banging his man parts more than his head these days.
Posted by: KBK   2013-12-10 09:41  

#7  Not that we'll ever need it or anything.....
Privy sanitation tip for that has been used for many years.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-12-10 08:14  

#6  I recall the outdoor toilet known as the "outhouse" and pretty much like the one pictured above. It was while I was a young kid growing up in Michigan during WWII. We lived in luxury; we had a two-hole version although I always wondered why one needed a two-hole outhouse. Time in the outhouse was not exactly social hour. The outdoor toilet was a grim place in the Michigan winter and bug-infested in the summer. They lacked any of the technology mentioned in the article. These things (toilets) don't have to be too complicated just functional and reliable. Complicated means more to go wrong. Don't mess with a good design.
Posted by: JohnQC   2013-12-10 08:10  

#5  I fear for the day when androids as advanced as R2D2 evolve, and they learn what we did with their ancestors.
Posted by: Bunyip   2013-12-10 04:22  

#4  Besoeker has the right idea for the toilet of the future. After the collapse of the Feral govt and major cities going bankrupt, outhouses will be back in vogue by necessity.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2013-12-10 02:04  

#3  Looks like some new kind of food chopper.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2013-12-10 01:11  

#2  Art students? Morons. Let the engineers give it a go.
Posted by: OldSpook   2013-12-10 01:06  

#1  Pine scented, Fulton County traditionnel.

Posted by: Besoeker   2013-12-10 00:45  

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