Sci-fi Toilet Seats The future of healthcare might include sensors built into your toilet seat! A toilet seat with a device embedded inside to detect heart failure in high risk patients, is up for FDA approval. This means that instead of having to make a trip to a hospital for expensive medical tests you may be able to just make…
A Hotel Room That Cleans Itself? From Conde Nast Traveler If you happen to be visiting Copenhagen, Denmark anytime soon, you should investigate the newly opened Hotel Otillia, which has rooms that clean themselves. Housed in the former Carlsberg brewing buildings, the Hotel Otillia brings self-disinfecting technology into its rooms and suites. A Teflon-like coating is sprayed onto surfaces and…
It’s finally here – the $500 portable toilet-cleaning robot! It even has a name – called “Giddel” by its developer, service robotics company Altan Robotech. Visit the website to see it in action! Altan’s website states, “With Giddel, you never have to deal with the disgust of cleaning your toilet bowl again.” Giddel has a telescopic arm that scrubs hard-to-reach…
Robot Aids Carpet A creepily cute robot baby created by Purdue University researchers is helping to determine how much dirt, pollen, skin cells, fungal spores, and bacteria are stirred up and breathed in by crawling infants. Indoor environments, mainly carpeted areas, can trap a diverse collection of debris, and this new study is the first to analyze indoor debris dispersal and…
Peeing In Public It’s an unfortunate fact of outdoor concerts: The number of toilets is always in inverse proportion to the number of drunk asses who need to pee. So people -- and by people, we mean shameless dudes—make a urinal out of the local flora. Here to rescue Mother Nature from full bladders everywhere is AANDEBOOM, a Dutch design studio…