Gates Foundation Makes Progress On Reinvented Toilets 167
Julie188 writes "Last summer the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged to spend millions to reinvent the toilet. That investment has born fruit with teams from around the world coming up with many different ways to turn human waste into energy."
Upgraded toilets (Score:5, Funny)
... now come with a Start button. Blue loo of death, anyone?
MS Windows: Human energy into waste. (Score:5, Funny)
Has to be said.
I don't want to attack Bill Gates. (Score:3, Funny)
I don't want to say anything bad about Bill, but this sounds like a pretty shitty idea.
Re:I don't want to attack Bill Gates. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Must be missing something... (Score:4, Funny)
You mean somebody effluential won't make a profit
Re:I don't want to attack Bill Gates. (Score:5, Funny)
You mean, other than Windows Me?
..plus Vista
Come on guys, don't mock the guy just because his earlier public toilet initiatives were less effective.
Re:Upgraded toilets (Score:3, Funny)
"First World Problems", indeed.
Maybe you could employ an immigrant to wipe your ass for you. Do your bit to help the poor people.
Re:MS Windows: Human energy into waste. (Score:5, Funny)
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged to spend millions to reinvent the toilet. That investment has born fruit
I'm not sure I want to know what kind of fruit a toilet has to bear.
Re:Upgraded toilets (Score:2, Funny)
1. Visit Japan
2. Find a supplier
3. Import modern toilets
4. Profit!
Seriously. The Japanese have toilets that automatically wash and blow-dry your ass, and sing to you while they do it.
Meanwhile, we here in the "civilized West" still shit in porcelain buckets.
Re:Does It Clean Your Asshole? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Does It Clean Your Asshole? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't touch my food with my asshole.
Nor do I touch door handles and other things that other people will touch with my asshole.
Nor do I "shake assholes" with people.
What an Unfortunate Choice of Metaphor (Score:5, Funny)
The article says Gate's toilet efforts have "born fruit".
Yeuagh!
Were these fruit "Dingleberries"?