If you sometimes make use of a urinal, and yearn for the sound of revving motorbikes whilst doing so, a new US patent might be aimed at you. Californian inventor Anthony Moley has just received a patent for his “Urinal with operation controlled via a replica of a motorcycle handlebar” The new invention, which provides rearview […]
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Kranakis, Krizanc, and their urinal problem
“A man walks into a men’s room…” No, it’s not the beginning of a joke, it’s the beginning of a scholarly paper presented in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010, Volume 6099/2010, 284-295. To continue : “A man walks into a men’s room and observes n empty urinals. Which urinal should he pick so as […]
The Aestheticization of Restrooms
Building on her prior research on the aestheticization of the male urinal, Karen Rae Cast examines the male restroom as a visual and material culture-site in her thesis ‘Examining the male restroom as a site of visual and material culture in the twenty-first century’ (Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of […]