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    Elvie, its case and the app

    Elvie works through sensors applied to a material, pebble-shaped device which send signals to the smartphone screen and enable each user to interact with the video game "your vagina plays". After use

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  • wearable technologies
  • urinary incontinence
  • elvie
  • kegel exercises
  • pelvic floor
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  • women
  • Design
  • Kegel and Elvie: what do these names mean?

    You can now train you pelvic floor muscles in a technologically proofed way

    In an age when exotic sports become more and more common and everyone tries out pilates, yoga and tai chi, a new frontier has been set. It goes under the label Kegel exercise (or pelvic floor...

  • Project: Anna Pedersen

    GoGirl

    Don't take life sitting down

    Life's greatest adventure shouldn't be finding a bathroom. GoGirl is the feminine urination device that lets you go anywhere. Simply put, a GoGirl is a way to stand up to crowded, disgusting, distant...

  • 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...

  • About the Pis’ Project

    2014-2016

    The Pis’ Project connects urine in the arts with innovation within design, architecture and environment. After a successful two years we decided in 2017 to expand the project from urine to all human...

  • Secretopia

    Secretions in Art, Design and Society

    Secretopia is an inquiry into human secretions through art, science and design. After exploring the potential of urine in The Pis’ Project, we decided to expand the programme to all sorts of...

  • The Buddha of the Bathroom, the Baroness and…

    The Dada Queen on liquid creativity

    Tempest Suck / Lip / Quaff / Breath / Squallashed / Skin's / Taste / Let / Me.

  • 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...

  • Overall Results of FUD Testing

    What did the users think?

    The Pis' Team at Mediamatic conducted a Female Urination Device study. We chose 7 reusable and disposable portable urination devices and 6 woman to test them as well as, 2 urine collector urinals...

  • 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...

  • Julia's washable protective underwear

    Don't let incontinence stop you

    Adults' incontinence is a common problem which challenges one's emotional and physical well-being, and disposable diapers aren't a comfortable solution. In order to enable incontinent people to...

  • Wearable Fluids: Turning the Body Inside Out

    Body Fluids by Zane Cerpina

    What if you were able to wear some of your most intimate bodily fluids, such as menstrual blood, breast milk or semen, as jewellery? Visual artist Zane Cerpina created a collection of jewellery made...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • When can we start to objectify our hair?

    Human Hair Transformation by Zsofia Kollar

    Zsofia Kollar is a designer who uses hair as the primary medium. The human hair has many capabilities due to their nutrients. For this collection, Zsofia experiments with the hair as an absorbent...

  • Whiz Freedom

    For When Nature Calls

    The world's first anti-bacterial and hydrophobic urine director. The Freedom is a soft and gentle, ingenious device and it allows women of all ages to wee in a standing up, sitting down or lying...

  • WoPeeH

    For women who stand up!

    WoPeeH pocket is the newest reusable urinating device for practical modern woman! WoPeeH pocket is specifically designed to easily take with you and lockable. Made of sturdy plastic it is reliable to...

  • P-MATE

    Why sit when you can stand?

    The only real and original urinating device that allows women to urinate standing up, in a comfortable, easy, discreet, but most of all hygienic way, without undressing. The P-MATE was tested by 6...

  • Prope(e)r

    Portable urinals for women.

    Shout out to all the ladies out there! Have you ever experienced a time in your life when you've really had "to go" and there as not been a convenient bathroom within reach? Maybe you were on a road...

  • Intimate Currency

    Peck As You Go by Raphael Kim

    With the world becoming more globalized with the help of the internet, businesses and payments become more intangible and digital. Such as so, payment systems are pressured to keep up with the rapid...

  • Shewee

    Stand up and take control.

    The Original Female Urination Device since 1999. Shewee is a urinating device that allows women to urinate without removing clothes whilst standing or sitting. The Extreme comes with a carry case and...

  • TravelJohn

    The civilized solution. Anytime! Anywhere!

    The essential disposable urinal kit you won’t want to travel without. Frustration mounts while you’re on the road, alone or with your family, and "nature’s call" turns to "nature’s scream". There’s...

  • Getting Drunk From Saliva

    Anivor - Alcohol made of saliva by Sydney Schaefer

    Saliva contains an enzyme called Amylase. When Amylase is combined with starch, which you can find in for example rice, it creates sugar. To create alcohol one only needs to combine sugar and yeast.

  • Happee

    A product of Vitility. We make your life easier.

    Happee is a unisex disposable travel urinal for men, women and children in situations when no toilet is available. Happee‘s design has a high absorption fabric that securely keeps all the liquid...

  • 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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