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Internet Enabled... Toilet Paper Dispenser

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-thats-genius dept.

The BBC are reporting that one of the items displayed at this years Ideal Home Show at Earls Court is an internet enabled toilet roll browser. From the article: A unit installed in front of a toilet on the cubicle wall provides up-to-the-minute information on products, stocks and shares and lottery results. People can even print off the information on a standard toilet roll. Go Ahead, make your TCP Dump comments. We'll wait.

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  1. make it a server rather than a browser? by hkon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'd rather have a toilet roll holder that could notify someone when it was (almost) empty. Would be nice for public or semi-public places like schools etc.

  2. In related news by Theodore+Logan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Researchers have after years of study finally discovered a polynomial time algorithm for using toilet paper, refuting the conjecture set forth by many researchers that this problem was intractable.

    The related problem of determining whether the toilet seat should be up or down has, on the other hand, been proven to be NP-complete.

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