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Toto, the Japanese company that manufactures the most technologically sophisticated toilets on Earth, has pushed humanity further into a plumbing utopia. This flushable toilet (with a built-in bidet!) can be carried around and re-positioned as needed.
The obvious next steps would be make the toilet a tracked vehicle and give it rudimentary artificial intelligence.
The company representative in the video below seems to think that this invention should be marketed to hospitals and care facilities, but I'm at a loss to understand why the company wouldn't aim at a general consumer market.
Link -via Dave Barry
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In Soviet Russia, toilet goes to you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5REaxl15uI&feature=PlayList&p=87EBD63B927C0E02&index=0&playnext=1
The Venus of Willendorf is the most famous.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf
The Chasmere is not the best at it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf_was not_made_in_the_neolithic_period,_but_upper paleolithic._And_this_roast_chicken_looking_one_is 10,000_years_older_than_that.
Perhaps a conspiracy theory deserving of it's own website?
I gotta quit smokin' this stuff...
If a woman made it the head would be bigger or as big as the breasts. As for guys, we hardly notice that part until they start talking.
If the priests or sjamans of this religion were women, they could also very well have made these all bums and breasts sculptures.
In some African cultures it is still very sexy and desirable to be very fat and visibly Fertile.
I LOL'd.
Newaz, women back then had less work, so it is a bit obvious that all they had to do was (not watching TV) watching the drams in their villages or tribes and look after the house. No work back then (meant for laundry and stuff)
This figurine represents an incredible part of the common heritage of all people. There is no way to understand the context in which it was made but given that “porn” is a modern concept it is not “porn”. It reflects sexuality for sure but sexuality as it has been throughout most of the history of humanity. Mystic and spiritual, tied to pleasure and procreation, natural and supernatural. Interwoven with life.
Over sexed nerds getting each other off with crude comments while drooling over internet images of digitally enhanced fantasy women are a new phenomenon. I doubt they will last as long as this and the other “Venus” figures.
Some things deserve respect simply because of what they are.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://barclay1720.tripod.com/hist/images/maltavenus3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://barclay1720.tripod.com/hist/paleo/neovenus.htm&usg=__7Krs4uayVG3lVu9B8223h3bz6LM=&h=399&w=338&sz=19&hl=en&start=1&sig2=6JpyFGm3tpgtzmOvEvE2JQ&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=Q6MPbfQUXDHl6M:&tbnh=124&tbnw=105&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmalta%2Bfemale%2Bfigure%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=hQw5TPylNIKclgeStd2wBA
N.Gagnon - explorer