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Has anyone else noticed?

That no matter what Science Fiction show/film etc you may watch (with the exception of amusing cartoons), no one has ever approached the idea of what a toilet might look like in the year 3000 whatever.

I mean, is this because people cannot be creative, or is it because a toilet is the best it can possibly be now? As in design I mean of course, its a seat at the end of day, how can it change. I don;t mean peripheral things like an automatic arse wiper or anything, just the basic system. Is it the pinnacle of human development in excretion disposal?

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its quite sad, but i have thought of this too. i mean, we get too see sonic-showers in star trek but we have never see Picard take a sonic-shit

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well, ideally, i guess it would be heated. other than that, i can't think of anything else that they could do to it.

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Heated, scent sealed and using some sort of zap ray to dispose of the waste instead of water.

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bah! food will be in pill form, nothing to evacuate

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3 Pills a day Joey?
They add up quickly..

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actually she has a point there, if food is manufactured and all the stuff our bodies don't use is edited out, what waste products would there be?

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the point is: what would we do without the pleasure of eating? I mean, its quite an enjoyable ritual.

Not that I have anything against taking pills

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actually she has a point there, if food is manufactured and all the stuff our bodies don't use is edited out, what waste products would there be?

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But if we take pills instead, how will increase bod weight and size?

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I don't really think it'd be pills, probably something more like the goop in the matrix.

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well we could have living clothes that feed off our dead skin cells and the such

or with nanotechnology we could have tiny robots glean the dirt and oil from our skin

i am flustered with the thought of a new toilet concept

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this sounds quite likely

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or with nanotechnology we could have tiny robots glean the dirt and oil from our skin

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Maybe toilets will be able to jerk you off?

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quote:

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But if we take pills instead, how will increase bod weight and size?

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I, for one, am content with my body weight and size As for the chillens, they get special nutrients, etc.



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OK, now I am having a cyberpunk flashback. Wheres my new eyeballs and legs? I'll take the enchanced immuno-repair nanobytes too.

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quote:

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well we could have living clothes that feed off our dead skin cells and the such

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quote:

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its quite sad, but i have thought of this too. i mean, we get too see sonic-showers in star trek but we have never see Picard take a sonic-shit

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Demolition man had the seashells, it's not a new toilet, but some new hygenic thing.

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i was going to mention Demolition Man and those 'seashells'.

i was gonna mention the fact that it was THE worst running gag in a movie ever.

ever.

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Demolition man had the seashells, it's not a new toilet, but some new hygenic thing.

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Yeah, it was, but cussing out the ticket dispenser for toilet paper was pretty amusing.

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yeah it was.

being serious for a moment, its not just sci-fi movies and the like that evade answering this question re: toilets of the future.

we hear (in sci-fi journals) about the homes of the future and how life may be 50 yrs, 100 yrs 1000 yrs from now - but nothing about toilets.

maybe the human race has reached the peak of toilet design.

i just hope we never go retro and dump in a hole in the back garden.

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toilets are perfect (except in japan where public ones are like french ones, ie holes in the floor) but you can sit and shit, kneel and vomit, stand and piss. complete.

and here on the proper ones we have seat warmers and jet sprays, and when aimed correctly give a nice little testicle massage....have i gone to far?

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in the US, toilets have changed dramatically in the last ten years. Federal law requires that all new toilets use 1.6 gallons of water per flush.

a plumber's dream. They are required to install toilets that don't work so great and will invariably need to be unplugged soon enough. My father is a plumber. These toilets have made him money a couple different ways. I already mentioned the first way. The second is by importing foreign toilets. The homeowners on a remodel he was working on demanded that they get an old-style (functioning) toilet, yet it had to be brand new. The only solution was to order from a company in france and have them delivered to a shipping company in vancouver. Somehow somebody smuggled them into the states and to my father. He had to buy six, that was the minimum. Dad sold and installed a water-saving toilet in the house prior to inspection. after the inspection, he sold and installed one of the premium french toilets. He had no problem making money off of the other toilets, either.

I'm sure the whole scenario is illegal somehow, and the toilet police will probably be knocking his door down sometime soon.


>>edit: more toilet info, including details of the thoroughly modern compressed air jet bladder toilet or somesuch.

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i must absolutely include this link:
http://www.incinolet.com

the future in shit is here!

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I must agree, they are crappy (*rimshot*) toilets over here.

The toilets in my house are thankfully all over 1.6 gallon tanks.

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