Cool invention ideas

[HappyHighwayman]

Now install a single one of those 1 inch gap panel stalls in the mens room of a restaurant for 100 and you'll find a restaurant I'm not interested in visiting no matter how good the food.

How do they get away with only one toilet in some busy restaurants.

Can I subscribe to your newsletter? I agree.

 

[seadog]

I just light a candle. It also serves as a visual warning clue. Have one in every bathroom.

 

[cheez]

Call it the "Odorometer" and you can add things like bluetooth pairing, high scoring/score tracking, heck even tie it into health tracking... "Two weeks of offensively odorous excretions is dangerous, you should change your diet or see a doctor"

You'd get to sit backwards on the toilet, too.

Don't you always do that? I mean you get a nice little shelf for your book and everything!

 

[ScarySpikes]

Just what is says.

I had this idea, while leaving the bathroom.

Wouldn't it be cool if on the way out, you could hit a button with options: 'mild', 'moderate', 'It's Bad', 'Toxic'

Then, there is a light on the outside, that changes over time, that people who might want to use it can see with the options Green - safe, Yellow - enter with caution, Red - Enter at your own Risk.

Honestly I'd just like to get bathroom fans on timers.

- Stall doors that go all the way down without 1 inch gaps in the panels

These already exist basically everywhere but in the US. That and the imperial measurement system are things that are basically unique to the US.

 

[TylerW]

Just what is says.

I had this idea, while leaving the bathroom.

Wouldn't it be cool if on the way out, you could hit a button with options: 'mild', 'moderate', 'It's Bad', 'Toxic'

Then, there is a light on the outside, that changes over time, that people who might want to use it can see with the options Green - safe, Yellow - enter with caution, Red - Enter at your own Risk.

I'm not sure if airborne fecal matter would read on an air quality sensor (they're usually for detecting smoke, CO2 and other pollutants) but if they do, this would be a doddle.

 

[lizard]

True story:

Walked into stall at gym
Saw turd in toilet
Flushed with foot (wearing shoe).
Turd too girthy; wouldn’t flush.
Me: WTF!
Me: Walked out disgusted.

Really, bro. You have too eat so much fucked up food that your water-snake is so fucking thick that it won’t flush?!?!!

5 words: Fiber. Eat some, you fuck.

 

[NorCalAthlete]

WRT bathroom inventions...there are Japanese and koren toilets that seriously transform your entire expectation of a public restroom. I was at an Outback Steakhouse in Korea back in 2005 and the bathroom there had the following:

- heated toilet seat
- self cleaning stall - yes stall, not just the seat
- multi function bidet - you could adjust power, angle, temperature, etc with a keypad
- music / white noise / relaxing sounds maker
- air dryer

Dead serious - I plan on remodeling the master bathroom in whatever house or condo I buy to have all that shit.

Side note - there are some pretty good bidets on Amazon that are add-on to your current toilet. They’re worth it.

 

[wannabe]

WRT bathroom inventions...there are Japanese and koren toilets that seriously transform your entire expectation of a public restroom. I was at an Outback Steakhouse in Korea back in 2005 and the bathroom there had the following:

- heated toilet seat
- self cleaning stall - yes stall, not just the seat
- multi function bidet - you could adjust power, angle, temperature, etc with a keypad
- music / white noise / relaxing sounds maker
- air dryer

Dead serious - I plan on remodeling the master bathroom in whatever house or condo I buy to have all that shit.

Side note - there are some pretty good bidets on Amazon that are add-on to your current toilet. They’re worth it.

Toto also makes a remotely operated powered toilet seat. Just press a button to make the toilet seat go up and down.

Toto is expanding their presence in Silicon Valley in the commercial buildings. I know of a few new buildings that installed all Toto stuff in their bathrooms including the heated washlets in every stall.

I, myself, am still looking for an excuse to add a urinal in my bathroom.

 

[ctwo]

Side note - there are some pretty good bidets on Amazon that are add-on to your current toilet. They’re worth it.

I'm laughing because this is a true story. My grandfather installed a Y at the toilet water valve, then a 4 foot hose with a pistol grip garden nozzle on the end. He wasn't even a redneck...

 

[ctwo]

I, myself, am still looking for an excuse to add a urinal in my bathroom.

You could always pretend the tub is just a big urinal.

 

[Climber]

WRT bathroom inventions...there are Japanese and koren toilets that seriously transform your entire expectation of a public restroom. I was at an Outback Steakhouse in Korea back in 2005 and the bathroom there had the following:

- heated toilet seat
- self cleaning stall - yes stall, not just the seat
- multi function bidet - you could adjust power, angle, temperature, etc with a keypad
- music / white noise / relaxing sounds maker
- air dryer

Dead serious - I plan on remodeling the master bathroom in whatever house or condo I buy to have all that shit.

Side note - there are some pretty good bidets on Amazon that are add-on to your current toilet. They’re worth it.

Are you going to add a pulsing water jet in it, too?

 

[CDONA]

My grand parents used a little jar of real honest to goodness strike anywhere kitchen matches.

You can still buy them, but they won't light with a fingernail anymore.
Redistributed the chemicals between the striker and match, not match only, really a not strike anywhere, but the box.

 

[Maddevill]

Wow, I always assumed my poop smells like daisies and bluebells....

Mad

 

[HappyHighwayman]

San Francisco bathrooms even at nice restaurants are fucking disgusting and the owners should be ashamed. I'm going to start calling them out in reviews.

 

[wannabe]

You could always pretend the tub is just a big urinal.

I’m not going to say that this has never happened. You do what you have to do when you gotta pee and your little buddy decides that he would rather admire the ceiling vent.

 

[berth]

Honestly I'd just like to get bathroom fans on timers.

If you have the fan already, there's lot of simple drop in timers.

We did that in our house. Worked really well, both for moistures and...other things.

I think it's code now that new builds have vent fans with humidity sensors.

Modern codes essentially seem to be based on the tenet that people are unable to turn off lights, or turn on fans by themselves.

 

[dravnx]

Not an invention idea, but I wish they'd put mini sinks in with the toilets so you could wash your hands at the correct time in the defecation process.

I never like the rest rooms where the sink is outside the toilet area. People are wiping their butts and touching door knobs before washing their hands.

 

[Brokenlink]

I never like the rest rooms where the sink is outside the toilet area. People are wiping their butts and touching door knobs before washing their hands.

How about instead of automatic toilet flushers, we invent the automatic doorknob.

 

[byke]

I never like the rest rooms where the sink is outside the toilet area. People are wiping their butts and touching door knobs before washing their hands.

Exactly! It gets worse though, they pull up their pants and theoretically get a small piece of poo in their clothing waistline area, then adjust pants later on, get said poo on their hands and then everyone goes out for hotwings at lunch.

 

[berth]

Redistributed the chemicals between the striker and match, not match only, really a not strike anywhere, but the box.

There may still be honest to goodness Strike Anywhere matches, I haven't looked.

But, anecdotally, I can understand why.

As a child, I was in the grocery store. I don't know the exact circumstances, but, at some point, I dropped a box of Strike Anywhere matches. And, yup, one or some of them struck somewhere when it hit the floor.

"Fire in aisle 10"