Gotta love that view!
Thursday, 20 August 2009
A Mongolian View
Our Shit Boxes have travelled to Mongolia as part of the Mongol Rally 2009. Bob Twells and Lee Tuffnell drove from Goodwood, UK to Ulanbataar, Mongolia in a Skoda and came 96th out of 550. We would like to congratulate them on their achievement and for using our trusty Shit Boxes to relieve them along the way.
Gotta love that view!
Gotta love that view!
Friday, 7 August 2009
Golden Showers
New advertising campaign in Brazil encouraging it's citizens to conserve water by peeing in the shower. Brazilian environmental group SOS Mata Atlantica says the campaign, running on several television stations, uses humour to persuade people to reduce flushes. The group says if a household avoids one flush a day, it can save up to 4,380 litres (1,157 gallons) of water annually.
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Cardboard Guitar
Awesome cardboard guitar by designer Jarrod Barretto - his claim to fame "I was once drawn in marker by famed cardboard artisan Michel Gondry."
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Tuesday, 14 July 2009
CitiKitty - Cat Toilet Training Kit
How to toilet train your cat with a 'specially-designed training seat', CitiKitty:
Check these (apparently) toilet trained cats:
Now if they'd only learn how to flush...
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Check these (apparently) toilet trained cats:
Now if they'd only learn how to flush...
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Cat Flushing A Toilet Music Video
Cat-chy song (pun intended!)...
♫ It's a cat (meow) flushing a toilet, it's a cat flushing a toilet ♫
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♫ It's a cat (meow) flushing a toilet, it's a cat flushing a toilet ♫
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Monday, 13 July 2009
Recompute
Sustainable cardboard PC
Brenden Macaluso's entry in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition from earlier in the year; the cardboard-housed Recompute
Recompute case is made of corrugated cardboard which is recyclable and renewable. There are four low-impact manufacturing processes in it's assembly: Die cutting, gluing (with non-toxic white glue), printing and electronic assembly. Recompute uses only three major electronic components: A motherboard with processor & memory, power supply, and a hard drive - it's cardboard housing means it can be disassembled without tools, so the electronics and case can be easily recycled individually.
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Brenden Macaluso's entry in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition from earlier in the year; the cardboard-housed Recompute
Recompute case is made of corrugated cardboard which is recyclable and renewable. There are four low-impact manufacturing processes in it's assembly: Die cutting, gluing (with non-toxic white glue), printing and electronic assembly. Recompute uses only three major electronic components: A motherboard with processor & memory, power supply, and a hard drive - it's cardboard housing means it can be disassembled without tools, so the electronics and case can be easily recycled individually.
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Sunday, 12 July 2009
Tech Cardboard
Gorgeous cardboard gadgets from designer Kyle Bean - Disposable Technology: A response to our consumer relationship with technology and obsolescence:
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Saturday, 11 July 2009
Friday, 10 July 2009
No Poops! No Oops!
OMG! Not sure what to make of this one (mind-you we make a cardboard crapper... so look who's talking). The PooTrap comes in 3 colours (black, red or blue) and 8 different sizes for worry free poo collection in apparently 3 simple steps - basically it's a doggy nappy...
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Thursday, 9 July 2009
Who Invented the Toilet?
Myth: Thomas Crapper invented the toilet - although Thomas Crapper was a master plumber he had little or nothing to do with inventing the water closet (nor is the word crap derived from his name).
The earliest toilets so far found are those at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, which was occupied at about 3000 BC. In ancient India and parts of the Middle East public toilets that used water to wash away the waste have been known for over 4,000 years.
While toilets date back to ancient times, the modern toilet can be more accurately traced back to Sir John Harrington, godson of Queen Elizabeth I, and his invention called the Ajax (i.e. "a jakes"; jakes being an old slang word for toilet) - an indoor water closet. In 1596, Harington wrote a book called A New Discourse upon a Stale Subject: The Metamorphosis of Ajax (catchy title) about his invention, but at the time his water closet was universally ridiculed by his peers for being a rather useless invention. By all accounts Sir John and Queen Elizabeth were the only owners of a WC in their day.
The idea of a flushable toilet never completely disappeared, and in 1738 a valve-type flush toilet was invented by J. F. Brondel. Between 1738 and 1852 a number of designs were invented and patents registered, including the silent siphon discharge system and the s-trap (preventing the escaping smell of sewers) - a design that is basically the same as modern toilets with few modifications.
A London plumber by the name of Thomas Crapper bought the rights to manufacture a toilet design in the late 1800s and stamped the words ‘T Crapper & Co’ on the bowl of his toilets...
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The earliest toilets so far found are those at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, which was occupied at about 3000 BC. In ancient India and parts of the Middle East public toilets that used water to wash away the waste have been known for over 4,000 years.
While toilets date back to ancient times, the modern toilet can be more accurately traced back to Sir John Harrington, godson of Queen Elizabeth I, and his invention called the Ajax (i.e. "a jakes"; jakes being an old slang word for toilet) - an indoor water closet. In 1596, Harington wrote a book called A New Discourse upon a Stale Subject: The Metamorphosis of Ajax (catchy title) about his invention, but at the time his water closet was universally ridiculed by his peers for being a rather useless invention. By all accounts Sir John and Queen Elizabeth were the only owners of a WC in their day.
The idea of a flushable toilet never completely disappeared, and in 1738 a valve-type flush toilet was invented by J. F. Brondel. Between 1738 and 1852 a number of designs were invented and patents registered, including the silent siphon discharge system and the s-trap (preventing the escaping smell of sewers) - a design that is basically the same as modern toilets with few modifications.
A London plumber by the name of Thomas Crapper bought the rights to manufacture a toilet design in the late 1800s and stamped the words ‘T Crapper & Co’ on the bowl of his toilets...
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Korean Unisex Toilet?
Wha...?
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Wednesday, 8 July 2009
CardBoy
The flatpacked freedom fighter!
CardBoy - A boy of card.
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Kahrd-bawrd
A generic term for a heavy duty paper based product sometimes made by pasting together two or more layers of paper.
Cardboard - Wikipedia
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Monday, 6 July 2009
The Most Flushingest Toilet in the World
This Toilet Is Awesome - Watch more free videos
Wonder how it would cope with the morning-after-the-night-before and a bowl full of toilet paper... mind-you it manages the 18 large hot dogs pretty well.
Via Boing Boing
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Disgusting
Our friends at minui HandySitt (the world's best looking portable high chair) are running a disgusting competition...
Submit your best disgusting, make me want to barf, kid story. A HandySitt will be granted for the most popular entry as well as for the best video, photo and written story. Keep it short!
Disgusting - the most disgusting thing your kid has done.
Submit your best disgusting, make me want to barf, kid story. A HandySitt will be granted for the most popular entry as well as for the best video, photo and written story. Keep it short!
Disgusting - the most disgusting thing your kid has done.
Sunday, 5 July 2009
Airplane toilet gobbles a whole roll of Toilet Paper
What happens when you roll toilet paper down the aisle of an airliner and then flush?:
The Airplane Toilet Paper Experiment
Via Boing Boing
The Airplane Toilet Paper Experiment
Via Boing Boing
Saturday, 4 July 2009
Cardboard Tube Fighting League
Did you know that there is a Cardboard Tube Fighting League?... well... there is... a bit like Fight Club but with cardboard tubes (of-course), apparently "The CTFL was created out of a desperate need to better train and arm citizens with cardboard tubes." and even better, cardboard armor and costumes are encouraged!
Photo: Al Bar
More origami than a martial art, check out The Official CTFL Website or some of the awesome costumes at the Cardboard Tube Fighting League Flickr Group
Photo: Al Bar
More origami than a martial art, check out The Official CTFL Website or some of the awesome costumes at the Cardboard Tube Fighting League Flickr Group
Peepoo Bag
Self-Sanitising Single-Use Biodegradable Toilet
A Swedish company has developed an affordable, biodegradable single use toilet bag that they claim could revolutionize sanitation for the developing world: the Peepoo Bag
"The Peepoo bag is in the form of a slim elongated bag size 14 x 38 cm. Within the bag there is a thinner gauze that measures 26 x 24 cm. The inside of the Peepoo bags is coated with a thin film of urea. Without sacrificing ergonomic function the bag’s design is adapted in every way so that it might be manufactured at as low a price as possible and sold to the groups with weakest purchasing power in the world. The Peepoo bag is easy to carry and easy to use. It does´t need any supporting structure, but for convenience a cut PET-bottle can help a lot.
The inside of the Peepoo bag is coated with a thin film of urea. Urea is the most common fertiliser in the world and is a non-hazardous chemical. It is found, for example, in toothpaste or skin cream often under the name of carbamide. When the urea comes into contact with faeces or urine, an enzymatic breakdown takes place into ammonia and carbonate, driven by enzymes which are naturally occurring in faeces.
As the urea is broken down, the pH value of the material increases and hygienisation begins.
Organisms which produce diseases (pathogens) which may be found in faeces (bacteria, viruses and parasites) are inactivated within 2-4 weeks depending on the surrounding temperature. The presence in urine of organisms which cause diseases is at a considerably lower level than in faeces and the hygienisation of the urine occurs more quickly. With conventional urine processing, urine sorting, the primary source of contamination is derived from faeces; this risk does not arise here since the bag is a disposable toilet.
Untreated faeces cannot be regarded as hygienised until 1-2 years storage has passed. The urea treatment is the simplest and most efficient treatment available. In the end when the bags degrade in the soil, the ammonia acts as a harmless fertiliser taken up by the plants."
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A Swedish company has developed an affordable, biodegradable single use toilet bag that they claim could revolutionize sanitation for the developing world: the Peepoo Bag
"The Peepoo bag is in the form of a slim elongated bag size 14 x 38 cm. Within the bag there is a thinner gauze that measures 26 x 24 cm. The inside of the Peepoo bags is coated with a thin film of urea. Without sacrificing ergonomic function the bag’s design is adapted in every way so that it might be manufactured at as low a price as possible and sold to the groups with weakest purchasing power in the world. The Peepoo bag is easy to carry and easy to use. It does´t need any supporting structure, but for convenience a cut PET-bottle can help a lot.
The inside of the Peepoo bag is coated with a thin film of urea. Urea is the most common fertiliser in the world and is a non-hazardous chemical. It is found, for example, in toothpaste or skin cream often under the name of carbamide. When the urea comes into contact with faeces or urine, an enzymatic breakdown takes place into ammonia and carbonate, driven by enzymes which are naturally occurring in faeces.
As the urea is broken down, the pH value of the material increases and hygienisation begins.
Organisms which produce diseases (pathogens) which may be found in faeces (bacteria, viruses and parasites) are inactivated within 2-4 weeks depending on the surrounding temperature. The presence in urine of organisms which cause diseases is at a considerably lower level than in faeces and the hygienisation of the urine occurs more quickly. With conventional urine processing, urine sorting, the primary source of contamination is derived from faeces; this risk does not arise here since the bag is a disposable toilet.
Untreated faeces cannot be regarded as hygienised until 1-2 years storage has passed. The urea treatment is the simplest and most efficient treatment available. In the end when the bags degrade in the soil, the ammonia acts as a harmless fertiliser taken up by the plants."
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Friday, 3 July 2009
Amazing Treat Machine
Not to be outdone by the cardboard cat chaise here's some entertainment for your favourite pooch... a dog-friendly cardboard snack dispenser:
"The Amazing Treat Machine is an exciting and innovative new dog toy. It automatically rewards your dog with treats when he or she drops a tennis ball inside."
Made of high quality kraft linerboard (30% post-consumer recycled material), the Amazing Treat Machine easily folds together without glue or tape. You supply a plastic water bottle, tennis ball, and the treats:
Via TreeHugger
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"The Amazing Treat Machine is an exciting and innovative new dog toy. It automatically rewards your dog with treats when he or she drops a tennis ball inside."
Made of high quality kraft linerboard (30% post-consumer recycled material), the Amazing Treat Machine easily folds together without glue or tape. You supply a plastic water bottle, tennis ball, and the treats:
Via TreeHugger
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Thursday, 2 July 2009
K-Guy Brown Stuff
A recent street piece 'dumped' on the South Bank:
“Street artist and biting political humourist K-Guy has passed verdict on UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s political career,” writes No Lions In England. “A new installation in front of the Houses of Parliament shows Brown’s career going down the sewers.”
We love brown stuff...
“Street artist and biting political humourist K-Guy has passed verdict on UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s political career,” writes No Lions In England. “A new installation in front of the Houses of Parliament shows Brown’s career going down the sewers.”
We love brown stuff...
Cardboard Cat Chaise
A-MA-ZING!
How to make your very own kitty-sized chaise lounge (there's a joke somewhere in there about brown kittens...) on Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories:
"Although we don't claim to understand it, a cat that has installed itself in a cardboard box is a happy cat. You can exploit this mysterious fact to make a your own simple corrugated cardboard cat bed like this one, designed as a kitty-sized chaise lounge. Since it's just cardboard, it's also easy to modify this basic design to suit your own (or your cat's) taste."
Cardboard Cat Chaise
How to make your very own kitty-sized chaise lounge (there's a joke somewhere in there about brown kittens...) on Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories:
"Although we don't claim to understand it, a cat that has installed itself in a cardboard box is a happy cat. You can exploit this mysterious fact to make a your own simple corrugated cardboard cat bed like this one, designed as a kitty-sized chaise lounge. Since it's just cardboard, it's also easy to modify this basic design to suit your own (or your cat's) taste."
Cardboard Cat Chaise
Monday, 29 June 2009
Foldschool, Free Cardboard Furniture for Kids
Foldschool is a collection of free cardboard furniture for kids, handmade by you. The downloadable patterns can be printed out with any printer. Follow the instructions and assemble a stable (and very cool!) piece of furniture.
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Saturday, 27 June 2009
The Survival Guide To Festival Toilets
How to survive horrible music event facilities use your wet wipes wisely and keep hold of your toilet roll!:
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Thursday, 25 June 2009
Shit's a Commodity
The Bathroom Reinvented: Virginia Gardiner
Industrial designer and London–based Dwell contributor Virginia Gardiner shares the ins and outs of her low-cost, low-tech concept for a waterless toilet system:
The LooWatt aims to solve this global sanitation crisis by creating an entirely new waste disposal infrastructure. The composting toilet is molded from 90% horse dung, and features a biodegradable lining that stores excrement in a sealed, odor-free container. Once the toilet is full, the user takes the poo package to an outdoor biodigestor, which in exchange provides a free source of biofuel for cooking.
Via Inhabitat
Industrial designer and London–based Dwell contributor Virginia Gardiner shares the ins and outs of her low-cost, low-tech concept for a waterless toilet system:
The LooWatt aims to solve this global sanitation crisis by creating an entirely new waste disposal infrastructure. The composting toilet is molded from 90% horse dung, and features a biodegradable lining that stores excrement in a sealed, odor-free container. Once the toilet is full, the user takes the poo package to an outdoor biodigestor, which in exchange provides a free source of biofuel for cooking.
Via Inhabitat
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
In the forest...
I wish I spoke Portuguese...
Can anyone translate?
Something about a comedian, Nigel Goodman, doing a 'review'...
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Not a box
More gorgeous cardboard stuff from David Graas, this is a lamp design:
Official notes about this product:
This lamp comes as a box with all parts inside (bulb, plug, cable etc. + manual). You cut top and bottom yourself and then install. The cut out of the lamp shape functions as a graphical image of the lamp that could be inside the box, but is not.
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Official notes about this product:
This lamp comes as a box with all parts inside (bulb, plug, cable etc. + manual). You cut top and bottom yourself and then install. The cut out of the lamp shape functions as a graphical image of the lamp that could be inside the box, but is not.
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Be Afraid! - Toilet Terror
Looking forward to Glastonbury?...
3,220 festival toilets across 70 toilet sites, with 700 metres of urinals... for 177,500 partying people, for up to five days - with (only) 22 teams from the Not So Solid Crew sucking up the contents of the toilets with tractor-pulled vacuum tankers, which then take everything to a huge lagoon at the edge of the Glastonbury site.
Hmmm... that's 55 people per toilet!
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Hmmm... that's 55 people per toilet!
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Monday, 22 June 2009
You lick restrooms?
Source Zooomr
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Sunday, 21 June 2009
Saturday, 20 June 2009
Car-dboard
Built with stunning detail, check out artist Chris Gilmour’s life-size recycled cardboard car:
There is no metal, wood, or plastic framework of any kind! Gilmour creates all sorts of lifesize replicas of everyday objects, ranging from flowerpots to a complete Astin Martin, solely out of cardboard and glue. From Guido Bartorelli's essay about Gilmour's work:
"Packaging cardboard is, by its very nature, intended to contain but it is then discarded. Gilmour, however, uses it to contain the work’s own identity and to highlight the displacement between the original object and the one made in cardboard. This displacement is marked by difference: his sculptures (and apart from the use of such a poor material, they conform to all the accepted precepts of sculpture) are not mere copies, but rather translations from life. This translation brings with it a process of knowledge- the knowledge of the small things within which the sense of daily existence is hidden."
Here's some instructions for making your own cardboard car ;-)
From 'How to Make a Cardboard Car' on wikiHow
There is no metal, wood, or plastic framework of any kind! Gilmour creates all sorts of lifesize replicas of everyday objects, ranging from flowerpots to a complete Astin Martin, solely out of cardboard and glue. From Guido Bartorelli's essay about Gilmour's work:
"Packaging cardboard is, by its very nature, intended to contain but it is then discarded. Gilmour, however, uses it to contain the work’s own identity and to highlight the displacement between the original object and the one made in cardboard. This displacement is marked by difference: his sculptures (and apart from the use of such a poor material, they conform to all the accepted precepts of sculpture) are not mere copies, but rather translations from life. This translation brings with it a process of knowledge- the knowledge of the small things within which the sense of daily existence is hidden."
Here's some instructions for making your own cardboard car ;-)
From 'How to Make a Cardboard Car' on wikiHow
- Take any size shoe box, tissue box, cereal box, etc. that has a top that's not connected to the bottom.
- Find a pair of scissors. Turn it to the side you want to be the front of the car.
- Cut a cube about 3 inches from the top on both sides all the way over the top and 4 inches from the front.
- Do another cut. On the cut side farthest from the front and make it into a slanting cut instead of vertical.
- Pierce a hole in the side of the car where you want your wheels to be. Make the holes for the wheels directly apart.
- Put a skewer (could be a straw, pencil, pen, etc.) through each pair of wheels for axles and put wheels on.
- Take the top to the box and bend it at the same length as the hole and then bend it at the same length at the bend in the cut.
- Add decorations
Toilet Twinning
CORD has launched the world's first toilet twinning to wipe away disease & flush away poverty.
Toilet twinning is a new and unique way of supporting people for whom good, clean, safe sanitation is a luxury - not a given. CORD is working to improve water and sanitation in war torn Burundi. In the past year we’ve helped local people there to build 870 latrines, each benefiting family of six.
Twin your toilet with a bog in Burundi to flush away poverty...
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Dirty Sanchez
Can't grow facial hair? Pop's 'Stache by Shane Blomberg, Andrew Reeves and John Healy, may be the solution for you - just attach it to your favorite soda and hey presto... Mo's your uncle... you'll have a mustache! Awesome.
Via geekologie
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Cardboard Comfort
What else would Little Jack sleep under than this ingenious cardboard duvet, called “Le Clochard” by SNURK (along with his cardboard toilet!):
The high quality duvet cover features a photographic print of a cardboard box and is a great way to be reminded of the daily plight of the world’s homeless:
"Sleep under a cardboard box so a homeless young person doesn’t have to.
A large proportion of the proceeds from the Le Clochard duvet cover go to SZN, the foundation for homeless youngsters in the Netherlands. The income is used to fund housing projects which prioritise supporting young people in finding work or continuing their education."
Cardboard duvet - Le Clochard
The high quality duvet cover features a photographic print of a cardboard box and is a great way to be reminded of the daily plight of the world’s homeless:
"Sleep under a cardboard box so a homeless young person doesn’t have to.
A large proportion of the proceeds from the Le Clochard duvet cover go to SZN, the foundation for homeless youngsters in the Netherlands. The income is used to fund housing projects which prioritise supporting young people in finding work or continuing their education."
Cardboard duvet - Le Clochard
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