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This is lady p
The female urinal created by Marian Loth
Designing a female urinal is not a simple mission, establishing its use is even more complicated. During her Master's Marian Loth took up the challenge and offered a viable solution which was...
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Up in the air, down to the earth
The destiny of travellers' pee
Imagine the situation: you are on a train, on a boat or on a plane and you feel the urge to go to the toilet. You relieve yourself and flush. Wuuush! Your pee is gone. But where, exactly, is it gone?
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Male urination in trains
Findings from “Hygienic Train Toilet”
Why are train toilets used only in case of emergency? Why are they perceived as unpleasant, unhygienic places? What does this have to do with male urination? And how can design be used to improve the...
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Take a Seat on the Future
Technology that could significantly change the sanitary needs of 2.5 billion people around the world.
Technology. A global invention that, in time, will take over our world completely. It has conquered everything from social networking to controlling the alarm system in our house from the office.
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The Big Blue
Sustainable and financially profitable sanitation
Three years ago, an off-grid closed-system toilet known as the Blue Diversion won an award in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Reinventing the Toilet"-challenge. It has also won the title of...
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Pop-up Urinals
Public convenience by the push of a button
This public urinal hides in plain sight during the day, and rises for the occasion at night. With room for three, the urinal provides ample opportunity and encouragement for male citizens to do their...
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PeeBack Time
St. Pauli residents fight back against public pissing
That moment when there is a long line to the toilets and you need to pee, not in a few minutes but right, this, second. Okay, for the social event goers, the occasional slip outside between the cars...
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Urine implants?
Caution: after reading this article you will rush, headlong, to brush your teeth.
Pis’ blog’s returning readers must be hard to surprise: they are already well-aware of urine-powered mobile phones, pee tea, pee fonts, furniture made out of pee and other fruits of humans’ insanity.
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Urine-tricity
Your pee can power a lightbulb!
A team of English researchers has created an energy-generating urinal that could prove to provide illumination in disaster zones and refugee camps.
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Short supply
Sustainable water systems
When resources are scarce, improvisations are needed. A research team from TU Delft is currently researching the possibilities for sustainable water system for developing countries. Such a system...
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On bees and piss
riddle answer
Why is a honey bee like a men's urinal? Have you guessed the riddle yet?
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Pollee
Urinals not meant for men.
Remember standing in line for a hot, smelly porta potty for what seemed like hours, just because it was either that or a sneaky pee in the bushes? Well, never again: the Copenhagen-based design...
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Cleantech Playground
A technical and environmental system for De Ceuvel
The Cleantech Playground (CTP) is a planned sustainable, cleantech utility at De Ceuvel in the North of Amsterdam. The project contains land-based offices and a commercial park, Café De Ceuvel, and a...
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L'Uritonnoir
From pee to compost
It's getting spring and while the weather starts to get better, so is the overal feeling in the city's. There are festivals coming up! A lot of dancing, listening to music, camping, beer drinking and...
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Peter Trimble
Furniture made out of sand, urine and bacteria.
Did you ever wonder about the power of your pee? Peter Trimble did. For his thesis project he investigated the possibilities of bacteria and the urea found in urine. What he found was a way to...
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Public Convenience
Hygienic, Portable Urinals for Men AND Women
The team of UiWe have taken to the streets in hopes of improving the experience of outdoor bathrooms for event go-er's and all around urban convenience.
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Disruptive nightlights
A fluorescent stand against public urination
Putting a rather lustrous spotlight on a seemingly unnoticed problem in Madrid, Luzinterruptus took it upon themselves to draw attention to some people's use of the public spaces as personal...
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Pee Tea
Filtering Human Pee into Drinking Water
Sure, you've heard of recycling waste into energy and peeing in the shower to save water. But have you heard of filtering pee into pure drinking water?
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It's Electric!
Electric pee in Rio de Janeiro
Every year the city of Rio de Janeiro has to deal with the same reoccurring problem. The many people at the Carnival pee in the streets. With this in mind, AfroReggae and JWT came up with a way to...
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P-TREE
The tree hugging urinal
With public urination becoming an increasing problem, designer Sam van Veluw of AANDEBOOM has created a mobile solution for festivals and the likes.