Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 1:11pm
Prospect Park's new eco-friendly latrines will use wood chips and microbes to turn the poop into humanure.
Toilets stories
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 11:58am
An informal Internet survey I just conducted pegs the average time we spend on the toilet in a lifetime is somewhere in the range of one to one-and-a-half years. For those in the town of Bellingham in Washington state, that time is about to increase: a new city project is using old toilets as part of Bellingham's sidewalks.
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 3:28pm
Have you ever looked around your place and thought, "you know what, if a bomb went off here I probably wouldn't be able to comfortably take a poo?" Yeah, me neither, but that's what the Russians are worried about, so they've started building terrorist-proof public toilets.
Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 10:57am
You might not be able to imagine any earthly reason to spend six thousand dollars on a bathroom fixture designed to accept your bodily waste, but that's only because you're not imagining hard enough.
Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 9:30am
Every time a toilet flushes, water rushes downwards thanks to gravity and an opportunity is lost. But with the HighDro system, those flushes can be converted into energy to power whatever building they're in.
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 1:57pm
One urinal overflowing is bad enough, but 15 of them? Well, that's another beat altogether. A fountain, in fact, if this bathroom is any indication. The water creates a lake on the floor, and there's even little stepping blocks to...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 8:56am
Germaphobes, rejoice! Now you don't have to touch anything at all when it's time to flush the toilet with this EZ Toilet Flusher. Too lazy to reach down and flush the toilet? Put the pedal to the metal. It's easy...
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 7:46am
What if you could have a urinal and a toilet in the same place? That's the idea of the Ultimate Clean Toilet. Facing one way, this design concept is a urinal with all its advantages; push a button and it...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 9:13am
Toto, the king of fancy-schmancy toilets, just topped itself with two revved-up additions to its Neorest line. Of course, they keep their superior remote-controlled butt-washing-and-drying features intact, spraying you front or back with an oscillating or soft wash, and then...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 6:49am
Here's an invention that could put an end to an age old squabble between men and women: the toilet that automatically lowers the seat. Finally! Some students from the Skjern Technical College in Denmark have created a toilet that lowers...
