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Get RSS Feeds on Your Toilet Paper

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the raising-the-bullshit-detector dept.

0110011001110101 writes "A crazy new product out of Taiwan seems to be aimed at the feed dependent of us out there. The 'rsstroom reader' is a bathroom gadget that prints news feeds onto your T-P - that's right, your TOILET PAPER! The best part is the "biometrics" toilet seat that'll figure out who you are based on your weight and prints the news you want - not your roommates tabloid garbage. Going to the rsstroom will never be boring again! Heres a close-up image of this new gadget."

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  1. The Island by biocute · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just like Ewan McGregor's urine is used to determined what he can/cannot eat on that day.

    You would think that with technology this advanced (the Taiwanese one, not McGregor), yet we can't put a feasible breathalyzer in the car and determine if a driver is under the influence or speeding.

    And what happens when these toilet paper with Slashdot RSS clogged up the toilet?

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    1. Re:The Island by cpn2000 · · Score: 5, Funny
      And what happens when these toilet paper with Slashdot RSS clogged up the toilet?

      Well, it means you've just slashdotted your toilet.

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    2. Re:The Island by Mutiny32 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Actually, they can put a breathalyzer in your car. A friend of mine's next door neighbor had one in her car that would not allow the car to start if she had alcohol in her system. Yes, it was court mandated.

    3. Re:The Island by sedyn · · Score: 4, Funny
      "Actually, they can put a breathalyzer in your car. A friend of mine's next door neighbor had one in her car that would not allow the car to start if she had alcohol in her system. Yes, it was court mandated."

      I can see it now:
      *In a bar, about to leave*
      "Hey lady, could I get a quick blow in my car?"

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    4. Re:The Island by kars · · Score: 5, Funny

      You mean splashdotted.

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    5. Re:The Island by Loether · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's why you should always bring your kid with you to the bar. So they can blow in the breathalyser to start your car for you.

      Actually I heard these type of devices require you blow in them at intervals not just to start the car.

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    6. Re:The Island by Opie812 · · Score: 2, Funny

      A friend of mine's....

      Riiiight....a "friend", nudge-nudge, wink-wink,saynomore-saynomore

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    7. Re:The Island by Gleng · · Score: 4, Funny

      News for turds. Stuff that splatters?

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    8. Re:The Island by xcomputer_man · · Score: 2, Funny

      Brings a whole new meaning to "yellow journalism".

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  2. FAKE! by Emrikol · · Score: 5, Informative

    I call fake! It looks exactly like a Zebra XI printer, with a nice photoshop job! FAKE FAKE!

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    1. Re:FAKE! by MankyD · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Right. You'll note that if you look at the inside of the supposed TP roll, it's not your standard brown paper tube (nor does it resemble one at all.)

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    2. Re:FAKE! by newell98 · · Score: 4, Funny

      From TFA: [note: the rsstroom reader(TM) is a conceptual product by dj spyhunter]

      Slashdot takes one step closer to becoming The Onion...

    3. Re:FAKE! by AKAImBatman · · Score: 2, Funny

      Too bad. I was just getting a kick out of misreading the summary:

      The best part is the "biometrics" toilet seat that'll figure out who you are based on your weight and prints

      I wonder what prints they're talking about...

      Commas (or unintentional lack thereof) are a wonderful thing. :-)

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    4. Re:FAKE! by OverlordQ · · Score: 4, Insightful
      from the raising-the-bullshit-detector dept.

      It's Funny. Laugh


      As if you couldn't tell already?
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    5. Re:FAKE! by whitehatlurker · · Score: 3, Funny
      Slashdot takes one step closer to becoming The Onion...

      Woo-hoo ... oh, you meant that as a bad thing. Sorry.

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  3. What a shitty idea by winkydink · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, the content of most rss feeds does befit the product.

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  4. Forget RSS feeds. by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a better - and far more fitting - idea. Blogs on toilet paper.

    1. Re:Forget RSS feeds. by leamas · · Score: 4, Funny

      So rather than call it bog roll, we can now refer to it a blog roll?

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  5. CICO by Soko · · Score: 4, Funny

    How apropos, given the state of most content on the Web.

    Crap In, Crap Out.

    Soko

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  6. RSS on toilet paper? by plover · · Score: 5, Funny
    RSS on toilet paper?

    "No shit?"

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    1. Re:RSS on toilet paper? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      You mean you don't know how to use the three sea shells?

    2. Re:RSS on toilet paper? by Scarletdown · · Score: 2, Funny
      Yeah... It's called podcasting.


      In this case, it would be called potcasting.

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  7. Afraid of link. by hal2814 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm kind of afraid to click a "close-up" image of a device that's used on the toilet. It's not a picture of a live demo is it?

    1. Re:Afraid of link. by flood6 · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you've been reading slashdot comments for a while you shouldn't have any problems. With all the tubgirl and goatse images that get posted in here, seeing even the fattest, harriest of men engaged in a "regular" bowel movement shouldn't even make you blink.

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  8. This is going too far by qwijibo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I used to have a terminal in my bathroom, so I understand the motivation to be close to information. However, I have to draw the line at buttometric technology, that's just wrong.

  9. Guilt. by Pillowthink · · Score: 2, Funny

    It would seem that feelings of guilt may spawn from wiping yourself with your favorite feed. Of course, if ever one became fed up with hearing the latest stupid news from one's roommate, a very powerful point could easily (and comfortably) be made.

  10. Oh the potential... by sarlos · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hack your neighbors wireless connection and feed false information to their RSS printed TP. Imagine the fun you could have. Program it to tell your neighbors wife she's fat and needs to lose weight. Program it to insult your neighbor's husband's manhood. There's so much potential here it is staggering...

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  11. GIMP toilet paper by ettlz · · Score: 4, Funny

    And to think that just today someone asked me why The GIMP has a toilet-paper template. Now I know why! For that printer!

  12. Finally a reason to subscribe to.... by doublem · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, at long last I have a reason to subscribe to the White House RSS feed...

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  13. It's a CONCEPTUAL product by winkydink · · Score: 4, Informative

    From TFA:

    [note: the rsstroom reader(TM) is a conceptual product by dj spyhunter]

    I'm not sure how one would fake a concept.

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  14. what is by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Funny

    What means this word 'arsefeeds'?

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  15. Finally... by jvl001 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally, I can now read /. RSS headlines that are worth the paper they are printed on!

    Remove dupes by tearing out a square (or more)!

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  16. RSS by waterlogged · · Score: 2, Funny

    Real Simple Shitification.

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  17. I guess... by hackstraw · · Score: 2, Funny


    I have to chase the article down the toilet with the server, the printer, and the RSS feed!

    Yuck!

    Any mirrors?

  18. Re:Serious question by errxn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps the solution would be to install an iris scanner which has been modded to do pattern matching on the user's "brown eye".

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  19. Bill O by saskboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    The only blog feed worth wiping with is Bill O'Idiot's from Fox News.

    It has the bonus effect of being a puff of hot air to dry your bottom.

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  20. I AM CORNHOLIO!! by peterpi · · Score: 5, Funny

    I need TP.
    For my bunghole.

  21. Bringing new meaning to the question... by DaedalusLogic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who reads this shit?

  22. Hmmmm ..... by gstoddart · · Score: 3, Funny

    My mother has a big sign in her washroom that says "This is a bathroom, not a library".

    Printing out custom-made TP while I'm in the head seems to be well and firmly entrenched into the "why ever for?" categry for me. :-P

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  23. ob. Simpson Quote by geekoid · · Score: 2, Funny

    "It's craptacular" - Bart Simpson

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  24. What's the point? by dkoulomzin · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm trying to get crap out of my ass, not into it!

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  25. Coral Cache by AaronCampbell · · Score: 3, Informative

    Article: http://www.djspyhunter.com.nyud.net:8090/teapot/20 05/12/rsstroom-reader-toilet-paper-printer.html
    Picture: http://www.djspyhunter.com.nyud.net:8090/teapot/up loaded_images/rsstroom_reader_restroom-761230.jpg

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  26. That would be painful! by phorm · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The problem is that for toilet-paper to feed/print properly in such a device (were it not a joke) then you would likely need some rather paper-like, non-fluppy TP.

    The problem with this being... standard paper and one's backend would not agree with each other greatly. The cheap stuff they buy here at work is bad enough, but I really don't need roaring hemmaroids and an ink-trace of slashdot attached to my heiny.

  27. McFly! Read my toilet paper! by otis+wildflower · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're
    Fired

  28. It's about time! by supabeast! · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now I can finally wipe my ass with the Washington Times, The National Standard, and White House press releases!

    Scott McClellan, get ready to kiss this ass!

  29. Slashdot - "News for Turds, stuff that splatters" by JohnnyDoesLinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where the news really stinks.

    Where the 'bloid meets the 'roid

    My sincere apologies, I cannot help myself.