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!

A Mongolian 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."

cardboard guitar by Jarrod Barretto

cardboard guitar by Jarrod Barretto

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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:

CitiKitty - Cat Toilet Training Kit

Check these (apparently) toilet trained cats:



Now if they'd only learn how to flush...

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Cat-chy song (pun intended!)...



♫ 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

Recompute; sustainable desktop computer

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.

sustainable cardboard PC

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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:

Disposable Technology by Kyle Bean

Disposable Technology bu Kyle Bean

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Saturday 11 July 2009

A Brown Story



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Friday 10 July 2009

Everyone Poops Trailer



Spike Jonze wastes no time adapting another 10 page childrens book into a film... Everyone Poops

No Poops! No Oops!

PooTrap. Magic poop collector.

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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Wednesday 8 July 2009

Cardboard life-sized LEGO minifig

Not sure why... probably just because it ROCKS!

cardboard life-sized LEGO minifig

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The flatpacked freedom fighter!

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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.


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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

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

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!

Cardboard Tube Fighting League
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

Peepoo Bag: Self-Sanitising Single-Use Biodegradable Toilet

"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."


Peepoo Bag: Self-Sanitising Single-Use Biodegradable Toilet

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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 - Entertainment for Your Best Friend

"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:



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Thursday 2 July 2009

K-Guy Brown Stuff

A recent street piece 'dumped' on the South Bank:

K-Guy Brown Stuff
K-Guy Brown Stuff
K-Guy 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...

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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:

Harley Sleeps

"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."

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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

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:

not a box by David Graas
not a box by David Graas

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?...

Glastonbury 2007 - Friday - Longdrops

no thanks, i'm full puhh, it's my turn Gotta love the festival toilets Toilet - Glastonbury 2007 Festi-loo Longdrop

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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Sunday 21 June 2009

Toilet Roll Sculptures

Toilet Paper Roll Sculptures by Junior Jacquet

Junior Jacquet creates some amazing face sculptures with used toilet paper rolls.

Toilet Paper Roll Sculptures by Junior Jacquet
Toilet Paper Roll Sculptures by Junior Jacquet

Poop From Above

Poop From Above by Joachim Baan

Designed by Joachim Baan @ Anothercompany

Saturday 20 June 2009

Car-dboard

Built with stunning detail, check out artist Chris Gilmour’s life-size recycled cardboard car:

Chris Gilmour

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

  1. Take any size shoe box, tissue box, cereal box, etc. that has a top that's not connected to the bottom.

  2. Find a pair of scissors. Turn it to the side you want to be the front of the car.

  3. Cut a cube about 3 inches from the top on both sides all the way over the top and 4 inches from the front.

  4. Do another cut. On the cut side farthest from the front and make it into a slanting cut instead of vertical.

  5. Pierce a hole in the side of the car where you want your wheels to be. Make the holes for the wheels directly apart.

  6. Put a skewer (could be a straw, pencil, pen, etc.) through each pair of wheels for axles and put wheels on.

  7. 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.

  8. Add decorations

Toilet Twinning

Over 2.6 billion, 40% of the world's population are without a clean and safe place to go to the loo

CORD has launched the world's first toilet twinning to wipe away disease & flush away poverty.

Toilet Twinning

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

Pops Staches

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.

Pops Staches

Via geekologie

Crap Joke

Know any good toilet jokes?

Police station toilet stolen...
cops have nothing to go on!

Cardboard Love

Cardboard Love

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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!):

Le Clochard
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