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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. Hmm I gotta go.. by mAineAc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Take a dump and watch the news. Am i the first post?

  2. Excellent by Lu+Xun · · Score: 5, Funny

    With my stock portfolio, toilet paper is the perfect place to print them out on. At least then they'd be good for something.

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  3. The perfect way to read /. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can I get a screen dump of that?

  4. 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.

  5. A real leap forward... by some+damn+guy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ..would be some damn charmin instead of that horrible industrial stuff.

  6. 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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  7. Can it deal with.... by inode_buddha · · Score: 3, Funny

    Corn v.2

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  8. Hehe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Go Ahead, make your TCP Dump comments. We'll wait.

    Man, that ain't a tarball.

    Better flush the dirty buffer.

    Dammit, it core dumped.

    Lookie, it's korn. Looks just like it did when it began.

    1. Re:Hehe by vjl · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd hate to see the size of the logs that this thing produces!

      /vjl/

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    2. Re:Hehe by mookie-blaylock · · Score: 5, Funny

      I was unwisely drinking coffee while reading the comments, knowing I'd see juvenile (yet totally funny) jokes. I was ready for every "dump" joke imaginable.

      And then you blindsided me with this genius and made me reach for a screen cleaning wipe (heh, I said wipe) to remove the new anti-glare coating of a cup of folgers from my monitor.

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  9. At last a use for spam by belroth · · Score: 4, Funny
    I suspect I would derive a strange sense of satisfaction from printing out some spam and using it in the only fashion in which it is useful. Except for the waste of ink...

    There's an old English slang word for printed rubbish 'bumf', short for 'bum fodder' indicating the recipients view of the best use for another memo/circular etc. Mayb it should make a comeback.

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  10. Before I take a TCP dump... by Morky · · Score: 5, Funny

    IP.

  11. Cool idea...sort of... by Tyreth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    but is it even hygenic?

  12. Great idea! by Espressoman · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if they are going to come up with some kind of streaming or p2p solution...

    And, can you get a version that prints on the paper before you use it? Something good to do with all the embedded "news" stories!