MILLENIUM TOILET PROJECT
If someone had to invent the toilet today, using modern technology, how would it be designed?
The state of the art in toiletry has a number of flaws:
1) uses lots of water
2) cold
3) causes anti-social smells
4) clogs too easily
5) ineffective ass cleaning with tp (or sprays)
6) wastes paper
Can't we solve these problems for good?
Michael B
March 29th, 2007 4:03pm
Aren't space shuttle toilets pretty well a hose that goes directly to an oriface and sucks waste up with a mild suction? (Can't make it *too* good, they got work to do up there.)
JoC
March 29th, 2007 4:07pm
Where can I buy one?
Michael B
March 29th, 2007 4:08pm
Go to your local home appliance store and find a water-filtering vacuum cleaner.
The only idea I had recently is that I'd get a toilet that had two different flushers. One for #1, and one for #2. I hate wasting water for #1, but I don't like sticking in a few bricks into the reservoir to reduce water usage only to find my #2's aren't getting all they deserve. So two levers, for two quantities of water.
Also bidet's are cool.
strawberry snowflake
March 29th, 2007 4:16pm
"The only idea I had recently is that I'd get a toilet that had two different flushers. One for #1, and one for #2."
That's pretty much every toilet pot sold here these days.
The US standard is now 1.6 liters per flush.
Unfortunately, 1.6 liters is not enough to clean up after El Dorado Lunch Special #2 (Beef Enchilada, Taco, and Spanish rice -- $4.95), so you often need two flushes, negating the enviromental benefits.
xampl
March 29th, 2007 4:36pm
2 flush types + bidet seems to solve a lot of those problems!
how about a warm blow dryer down there, too?
Kenny
March 29th, 2007 4:47pm
how about just a trough in the shower.
strawberry snowflake
March 29th, 2007 5:26pm
Back when toilets were invented, 'soil' toilets were nearly adopted as standard where bacteria in soil were used to break down the waste
Billx
March 29th, 2007 7:39pm
1) uses lots of water
2) cold
3) causes anti-social smells
4) clogs too easily
5) ineffective ass cleaning with tp (or sprays)
6) wastes paper
These are all plusses when you're drunk.
Сергей Рахманино
March 29th, 2007 7:45pm
Ineffective ass cleaning can be considered a plus? Ever?
Are you drunk or something?
Vista-JoC
March 30th, 2007 12:02am
I need a toilet with a noise supressor.
arg!
March 30th, 2007 2:00am
To clean the 'arse the norm is a short shower tube, hanging in the wall by the side of the toilet. Toilet paper can optionally be used to dry afterwards.
It is possible the US now has toilets with two different flushes for solid and liquid waste. That fits in with the American way of life:
a) It is an expensive over-engineered solution that makes you give up even more of your hard-earned income to big business (as opposed to a plastic jug by a tap, or the aforementioned tube for liquid waste)
b) It assuages the conscience by scratching at a minor problem, whilst the same businesses waste five times the water by installing power showers, and using electric pumps to increase water pressure.
Stephen Jones
March 30th, 2007 11:05am
I want a urinal in my bathroom. Apparently they're gaining traction for home use.
DF
March 30th, 2007 4:44pm