You know the old saying: the sink is the heart of the bathroom. But all too often that sink looks nasty, covered in toothpaste, and draped with a half-used container of floss. Here’s a sink that can cleverly hide everything away when you’re not spitting your mouthwash into it.
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Today is Mardi Gras, and like any booze-fueled street celebration, that means tons of full-bladdered revelers seeking out a place to relieve themselves. Thankfully, technology’s here to save New Orleans from becoming a literal Urinetown. Meet AirPnP, the web app that lets you do your business in the privacy of a stranger’s home.
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A new startup is betting that you can’t find a suitable public restroom to relieve yourself—and that you’ll pay top dollar for a cushy seat when the urge strikes. Posh Stow and Go is billing itself as New York’s "first members-only day storage and bathroom facility," with memberships that allow you to pay-as-you-poo.
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The Sunday comic strip "Closer Than We Think" was launched in 1958 at the dawn of the Space Race. But the strip’s mission wasn’t just to show Americans what would soon be happening on the moon and beyond. No, the space age would touch every part of American life — from the fuel that would power your driverless car to the dictating machine that would be built into your futuristic office desk
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Guaranteed, your tub is nothing compared to the Oveflow Bathtubs. You might not be dirty, but after gazing at these new sunken whirlpools from Käsch, it’s totally natural to want to spend the rest of your day soaking until your toes shrivel. More »
This bucolic Japanese bathroom is a temporary installation at Tokyo’s House Vision Expo. There should be no question as to whether you’d pee in it. As long as you don’t defile the bushes, that would be the best bathroom experience of your life. More »
Why hide your toilet paper stock in a cabinet that guests will just have to hunt through when they run out? This stylish laquered steel tree can be mounted to the wall near your loo where it will store up to 14 extra rolls in plain sight, without looking like an eyesore. More »
In an attempt to make the often overused and undermaintained portable toilets not the worst part of a music festival in Argentina, the organizers decided to make a bank of stalls one of the musical acts. More »
We all use our smartphones and tablets in the bathroom, but there’s an unwritten rule that you do it discreetly, and don’t really brag about touching your device while touching your… well, you get the idea. So while on one hand it’s easy to be disgusted by CTA Digital’s toilet paper/iPad stand, on the other we’re probably all quietly reaching for our credit cards. More »
OK, please, give this a chance before you close the tab—a hand dryer can be cool. The Dyson Airblade, that little wonderbox you stick your mitts inside to get a super-fast bathroom dry, just got a super upgrade. More »
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