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Researchers at the University of Waterloo and Weber Sate University have tackled a pressing issue in public bathrooms around ...
The researchers suggest that if Nautilus was to replace the 56 million urinals across the U.S., around 1 million liters of urine would be prevented from being splashed onto the floor every day.
But it’s actually an eco-friendly urinal — or “uritrottoirs” — meant to quell public peeing, according to a statement from city officials. Uritrottoirs, set up in “heavily congested ...
Three-dimensional renderings of urinals. From left to right: Duchamp’s “La Fontaine,” a contemporary commercial model, Cornucopia, and Nautilus. A urinal designed to avoid urine splashback ...
WATERLOO, Ontario — For over a century, men’s public restrooms worldwide have featured essentially the same urinal design. Despite their universal presence, these fixtures have a notorious flaw that ...
It's an issue that most men have to deal with on a daily basis. Urinals, first invented nearly 200 years ago, still have a notorious flaw – splashback. Now, experts have come up with a design ...
Thousands of gallons of ill-aimed pee could be spared from lavatory floors thanks to a new urinal design, scientists say. Around 1 million liters (264,172 gallons) of urine are spilled onto the ...
Or sign-in if you have an account. Researchers at the University of Waterloo have new designs for urinals they say reduce the amount of splatter or “splashback” to just 1.4 per cent of the ...