The 10 Most Innovative Bathrooms From Around the World
The bathroom is probably the least social room in the house for most of us who don't enjoy a strict diet of Eastern European porn. Sure we all use it but we rarely discuss it and no one wants to hang out there.
But that doesn't change the fact it may be the most important room in your house and, as with everything else in this age of technological marvels, advances are being made. Kickass advances.
Such as ...
#10.
The Indipod Car Toilet
Nothing screws up a road trip more than having to use a highway rest stop. Notorious for housing armies of disease-causing bacteria and, in some cases, serial killers, the rest stop is not your friend and no rest will be had. The Indipod was invented to let you drive right past it down the highway while pissing in your own vehicle, the way God intended.
Basically a tent that you just set up in the back seat with a really advanced-looking bucket inside, the Indipod is the evolution of the Big Gulp cup dad made you piss in on those long road trips back in the day.
For added kicks, you can keep driving while a passenger uses it, presumably getting causing unpleasant splashback at every turn and bump in the road.
#9.
The Intelligence Toilet
Japan, land of innovations you never knew you needed because you don't need them, once again wows the world with the Intelligence Toilet, which makes our standard western toilets look like the stupid family dog, hungry for feces but offering nothing in return beyond blank stares.
The Intelligence Toilet can measure the sugar levels in your urine, test your blood pressure, your body fat and weight, and then give you recommendations for diet and exercise. It's basically a genie you shit on.
#8.
The Pet Potty Doggy Toilet
There's no reason dogs should be left out of the bathroom revolution, considering their toilet has not seen an advance since "the ground" became popular several million years ago. Now, thanks to the Pet Potty, dog owners don't need to really walk their dogs at all any more. We'll allow the official video to demonstrate:
Yes, at the 1:19 mark, you just saw a full, uninterrupted 15-second shot of an actual dog shitting on their product, before the turd got sprayed away with a shower head and then mulched by a trash compactor or some such.
This indoor toilet for dogs gets installed right into your plumbing, which the website assures us is easy without actually explaining the process, and is such a time saver. Of course you still have to manually hose off the poop each time, unless you can somehow teach your dog to do that.
#7.
Uni-P Public Urinal
The inequality of the sexes is never more evident than when it comes to the public restroom. The reason there's always a line outside the ladies' loo is because there are fewer places to go (since stalls take up more room than urinals, there are fewer in an average restroom). Thus men have long held urinals over women's head, probably more figuratively than literally.
But now, at long last, women get all of the advantages of the urinal. How, you may ask? Well, the above picture ought to clear it right up for you as well as demonstrating how this device would be in no way degrading or embarrassing for women.
#6.
The Homophobic Robo-Toilet
Apparently life in Ft. Lauderdale has been brought to a standstill due to rampant homosexual bathroom antics. Not according to the police or anyone sane, just according to the mayor, who's convinced no one can set foot in a public restroom without having to wait behind a gay conga line to use the facilities.
Luckily, the mayor has proposed spending a quarter of a million bucks on a public toilet that's self-locking, self cleaning and, a feature that's sure to not cause any potential lawsuits, it sets off a siren and opens the door if it thinks you've been in there too long.
Yes, what better way to discourage public bathroom sex than by exposing it to a passing crowd of Boy Scouts.
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i rofl'ed. twice. maple syrup.... oh man.
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ReplyI giggled steadily throughout.
ReplyActually, I came across something like #6 in LA, at a Red Line station. It's not a nice place to be, I can say that much.
ReplyThis should be titled as the 10 Most Intimidating Bathrooms from Around the World.
ReplyYeh #6 is similar to the public toilets they had in SA Adelaide where the doors opened and the lights flashed if you were in them for too long. I think it was to stop hobos from sleeping in them.
Reply#6 seems like a pretty good idea to me. I heard they were supposed to install some of these in NYC.
ReplyWe've had #6 in N. Ireland for years, pressure sensors on the floor etc. to ensure that not more than 1 person is using the facilities at any given time. Of course being innovative teenagers with nothing better to do we managed to squeeze 13 people into 1 with a variety of means for some 'recreational activity.' Infer from that what you will. But there was a suprising oversight to it when 1 day we realised that the toilets were not disabled friendly as there was someone in there with a carer who couldn't figure out why the door wouldn't close, having a s**t for all the world to see.
ReplyOkay, so what if you're in Lauderdale and you get constipated? Then the door opens after you've been in there twenty minutes trying to go. Am I the only one who though of that?
ReplyNo. You are not.
No woman would ever use the Uni-P Public Urinal if it wasn't contained in a stall. Ever. Also, it leaves even more room for stupid b***hes to piss all over the seat and floor. Lastly, who the hell wants to squat anywhere close to a urinal? Despite having penises for at least several years before attempting to use one, guys STILL can't hit a hole a foot around. :/
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesAlso, people get murdered in the blue light rest room, right?
I don't understand how some people can't get their piss into the nice porcelain receptacles, it's not that hard. And give us guy's some credit, just because a few idiots can't, doesn't mean we are all incapable of doing so.
It's basically a toilet you can't s**t in without horrifying consequences. I am thoroughly unimpressed.
Apparently 1 of the best things that has been invented has been painting a target on the urinals, has increased piss accuracy substantially, or a ceramic fly which people are intent on pissing off quite literally.
@AloysiusWeasley and FoyW: It's called a "split stream". Sometimes the pee doesn't all come out in one single stream, but rather, 2 or 3, in opposing directions. There's also the occasional "back stream", where the pee actually travels 90 to 180 degrees, back onto ourselves. These are not controllable or predictable situations.
I'm a little disappointed this article didn't include the sound-generating toilets present in many bathrooms in (you guessed it) j*pan.
ReplyComposting toilets are catching on in poorer countries. Do you know how much water you save if you don't have to flush the thing every single time you use it?? And then, instead of all that crap going to a giant toxic pile in a waste-treatment plant somewhere, you get usable fertilizer in about a year or so.
ReplyThe point of the sawdust is to cause the crap to break down, and also to stop smelling. The composting process needs both a nitrogen source (feces) and a carbon source (sawdust). Then you have a low-odor decomposition instead of a methane-spewing crap nightmare. You still want to have a vent pipe from the chamber to the outside, though.
I'm serious...when I was in Africa, our outhouse smelled horrible. Then we started putting leaves and sticks into the hole, and problem solved. THe smell went WAY down, and the flies all but disappeared.
I can see my veins under blue lights though? Are my veins the wrong colour? Evolution at work?
ReplyI've always laughed at them as they operate under the assumption that an addict A) Doesn't already know where to stick the needle and B) cant just trace over his veins before going in.
The f**kers still didn't explain how sawdust works.
Replystill determined aren't you lol
With regards to #7: Ladies, I've been a guy for most of my life now, and if there's one bit of wisdom I could pass along to you it would be this: You DO NOT want to sit on a public urinal! Ever! I don't care if you use A-Jax, C.L.R. or Ty-D-Bowl, you will never get your c****r clean after that. Please trust me here women, I'm trying to help...
ReplyMost women don't even sit on the actual toilet seats in public restrooms. Fuuuuck that
most of?
Seriously? Blue lights just to stop someone from shooting up? I was thinking maybe they were UV lights to kill germs and such, but its just blue lights... That's really stupid, nevermind that blue lights are more painful for your eyes than yellow or orange lights... that's just...why?
Reply Hide All See All 8 RepliesI was scared they would be lights that allow you to see all the bacteria in the bathroom. An OCD's worst nightmare.
As they said, you can't see your veins. And if you mess up your shot, I guess it can end up pretty badly. Then again you could just walk in, realize you can't see your veins, go out, take a marker, circle the part you want to shoot, go back in, see the black marker, and shoot yourself away.
Dereck, you clearly possess an innovative mind. Have you ever considered becoming a consultant?
or you could do what every doctor in the world has done when he or she needs to draw blood from someone with dark skin:
feel for the vein.
Dereck, that assumes an amount of foresight and intelligence that I think you will find are rather uncommon among heroin addicts, especially when they're looking for their fix.
I was afraid you'd see all the semen stains all over the walls. And doors. And floor. And doorknobs. And sinks. And toilets.
Deadly, as much as I am ashamed of my past as an addict (a heroin addict at that, but I snorted it. I was too much of a chicken s**t to shoot it. But I know a ton of people who did) I will say that when an addict needs a fix they can actually be quite innovative. The blue light wouldn't screw up someone who is used to booting up anyway. Like vox said, you can feel for the vein. Also, when you have it in the right spot it feels different and you will get blood back into the needle.
That said, the blue lights thing is quite stupid. I'm sure it deters no one and it just annoys the s**t out of people. Oh, for the record, I've been clean for years. A lot addicts are actually pretty smart (in a general sense) but there are exceptions to that.
And the dumbest addict you ever met is smart when it comes to figuring out how to get more of whatever they're addicted to.
Is that a...cupholder in #10?
ReplyI think it's to hold wipes.
in scotland all the buses have they stupid blue lights to stop you shooting up...i guess it works, but if you have to be on the bus for more than 10 minutes you get an awful headache. Also squirting water isn't weird that's what a bidet is.... most countries use them, those of us who don't are in the minority.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesI thought the same about the bidet, and I'm an American.
Bidets ARE weird. Just use toilet paper like a normal person...
You mean washing your bum (which is covered in shit) in water is weirder than putting your hand on your anus with a flimsy bit of paper to physically pick the s**t up off your arse and put it in the toilet? If we're being objective, toilet paper is weird, bidets are hygenic.
"no one wants to hang out there"
ReplyWell, you're wrong about that. A lot of my friends will ask me to go with them when they have to use a public toilet. I see groups of girls hanging out in them all the time. I've even had total strangers talk to me while I'm taking a shit.
People frighten me.
People frighten me too, people like you