Urinals

Roughly the size of an iPhone, the Shanmu S1 sticks onto the inside of a toilet bowl and automatically scans urine to help detect diseases early, and provide prescription guidance for the entire family.

New research has reported successful early tests for an electronic nose system designed to sniff out prostate cancer biomarkers in urine. The technology follows earlier research that found trained sniffer dogs can accurately detect prostate cancer.

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.

Researchers at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) have built a urinal that uses microbial fuel cells to turn urine into electricity to run lights and phones. To make sure it's always kept topped up, they have installed the prototype right next to the university's student union bar.

Porta Potties are one method of dealing with public urination, although Oakland, California-based Hyphae Design Laboratory has developed a more eco-friendly solution known as the PPlanter. It's a self-contained modular system, that uses bamboo to process the pee.

The Tandem is a combination sink and urinal.

London residents Pete Tomlinson and Ben Russel have transformed an abandoned public toilet block in London into a café.

Captive Media is a urinal-based video game service, where male users control the game play via their urine stream.

Desperate parents resort to any number of incentives to encourage their kid to “use the potty”- special underpants, reward charts and for parents of boys, even floating toys in the toilet bowl for target practice! Inventor Joanna Haymes, a mother of three boys, took the latter idea further and devel

May 17, 2007 It's not our favourite subject, but it has the potential of saving the average office building around 2.3 million litres of water each year. Caroma

November 21, 2006 When you’ve gotta go, you’ve gotta go – particularly when you’ve had a bellyful of alcohol. Given that using alcohol to great excess is a mod