Somewhere between building nuclear fusion reactors and decoding the human genome, humanity paused... and decided that peeing shouldn’t be a messy ordeal. Enter the Nautilus urinal: a piece of plumbing so thoughtfully engineered that it makes the 100-year-old standard look like a cruel prank played on pants and public floors everywhere. Scientists at the University
  • lattrommi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    and your Pants Pee-free

    they are seriously underestimating my capabilities, as well as the efficacy of my laundromat and determination of the drunken hobos who live there.

    They measure the angular degree of the appliance but I’ll wager a testicle they still have not tackled the more critical issue of the degree in temperature of cold porcelain. As I’m sure most men living anywhere with a latitude bigger than 45° can relate, there is nothing worse than having to chip onesself free on a cold night in the dead of winter.

  • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    I appreciate improvements, but I don’t think this will solve the problem of pee shooting out in random directions (occasionally vertically down) before setting on a gentle spray in all directions at once. It’s not even like we’re free-handed firehosing the stream or anything - even carefully aimed, it can decide to just fuck off to the right for no damn reason.

    Anyway, all this to say the floors will still be sticky, but hopefully less so.

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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      13 minutes ago

      Nautilus was torture-tested with poor aim scenarios, erratic flow rates, and simulated misfires

      reducing splashback by a staggering 98%

      Seems like they did this properly, and while it’s not perfect it handles sprinkler mode pretty well