Toilet
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One of the more unsavory consequences of natural disasters can be the lack of access to toilets. Design firm Nendo has taken aim at this dilemma, developing a flat-packed toilet that can be carried in a bag and built on-site with the help of commonly found waste materials.
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The bathroom is one of the last bastions of privacy, where we can belt out a tune in the shower, soak in the tub, or primp and preen ourselves without judgement. To help your friends and family make the most of that precious personal time, we’ve rounded up some of the best bathroom gift ideas.
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The Brondell Swash 1400 is a bidet built into a toilet seat that gives you the ability to customize the spray's width, pressure and temperature, and a buttload of other features to refresh your rear, like an air dryer, deodorizer, seat heating, and an in-bowl nightlight.
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Toilet Foot. It might sound like a disease you get from walking barefoot in dodgy bathrooms but, in fact, it's a new invention that lets you convert any home toilet into one that can be flushed with a foot pedal. It's now raising funds – and a few eyebrows – on Kickstarter.
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Public toilets are generally pretty crappy, but one in South Korea might make it fun to drop in, drop trou' and drop anchor. Not only does it look like a nice, cosy environment to induce the deuce, but it turns your browns into green energy solutions, and eventually, you might even be paid to poop.
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A cheap, easy to maintain, toilet that uses no water and turns human waste into electricity will be trialed in 2016, possibly in Ghana. The “Nano Membrane Toilet” could help some of the world’s 2.3 billion people who have no access to safe, hygienic toilets.
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Covered in soggy toilet paper, that brush in the corner of your bathroom mightn't be something you think about too often. But inventor Garry Stewart sure does and he's invented a new weapon for taking the battle to the porcelain throne.
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A beercycling project dubbed "From piss to pilsner" invited beer-swigging live music lovers at last week's Roskilde Festival to leave deposits for local farmers to use as fertilizer for barley crops grown to make beer.
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Perhaps you're one of those guys who dreams of having a "man cave" with its own private urinal. The things cost hundreds of dollars, however, plus they take up a lot of space. That's why Daniel Garvin created the Main Drain, a low-cost urinal that attaches to the side of an existing toilet.
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If you're like most people, you probably don't like leaving the bathroom smelling of "what you've done" after using the toilet. While spray cans may mask the odor, Kohler's new Purefresh toilet seat goes a step further – it filters the air right at the source, plus it adds a fresh scent.
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It's no easy task for an architect to put his or her stamp on basic facilities like public restrooms. Architect Adam Wierciński has managed it though, and his Seaside Periscope concept comprises a public toilet that sports a working periscope system.
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Here ’tis – the Fresh Air Plus toilet seat with a built-in fan. The fan turns on when somebody sits on the toilet and sucks your stinky toilet air out through a tube that you’re supposed to poke through the wall. Howdy neighbor!
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