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See below for some terrific toilets.
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A pop-up toilet The UriLift is a pop-up urinal. There’s one in Reading, England. It cost £17,850! The loo pops up between 9 and 10 in the evening, and goes back down around 6 in the morning. Underground, it is connected to water pipes and electricity. It has an automatic flushing and cleaning system, so nobody ever needs to come and clean it. | |
The Toilet Gallery A public loo in Kingston-upon-Thames, SW London, has been converted into an art gallery, to display work by young artists. | |
Going in luxury The Washlet is a toilet in Japan that does almost everything for you! It lifts the lid up for you, so you can sit down on the heated seat. It makes flushing noises while you do your business, so no-one can hear you. When you’ve finished, it washes and dries your bottom, then freshens the air. | |
Making the most of it Paul Calvert is a British engineer. He designed a new kind of toilet that turns your poo into manure – a bit like horse manure which people use on their gardens. Using this, instead of a flushing toilet, saves water. He says it doesn’t smell either! | |
Jewelled loo A jeweller in Hong Kong has built a golden bathroom. The toilet is made out of real gold, and there are rubies, sapphires and emeralds in the ceiling. It cost £2.4 million, which some people might say is money down the toilet. | |
Science toilet In Japan, a toilet is being made that can see how healthy you are. It can take your blood pressure and see what’s in your wee. It can then send the information to a doctor over the internet. | |
See-through loo Outside the Tate Britain art gallery in London in 2003 was a very weird public toilet. From the outside, it looked like it was made of mirrors – you couldn’t see in. But from the inside, you could see out, so it looked like it was made of glass. A loo with a view!
(more photos of the above toilet are available from) www.snopes.com | |
Toilet restaurant flushed with success In a restaurant in Taiwan you can eat food off plates and bowls shaped like western loo seats as well as Japanese "squat toilets". You sit on colourful toilet seats studded with flowers and shells, at tables converted from baths. Urinals are used as lamps and neon-lit taps decorate the walls. The restaurant proved so successful that the owner opened a second and bigger branch just seven months later. | |
Nature Calls Artist Clark Sorensen from San Francisco in the USA creates beautiful and unique urinals for the home that look like flowers.
Urinal Dot Net www.urinal.net | |
Bog Standard gallery A converted portable toilet has been converted into the world’s smallest art gallery, called the Bog Standard Gallery. The tiny metre-square gallery exhibits photographs of toilet signs from around the world taken by art student Malanie Warner.
Melanie Blog | |
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