Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the German government are working on a $10 million project to provide innovative sanitation facilities to 800,000 Kenyans over the next five years. From the article: "The goal is to find 'innovative solutions' for sanitation in poor urban areas. Gates says it's time to move on from the era of the classic toilet. He points out that, despite all the recent achievements, 40% of the world's population, or some 2.5 billion people, still lives without proper means of flushing away excrement. But just giving them Western-style toilets isn't possible because of the world's limited water resources." I wonder what the toilet version of The Blue Screen of Death is.

Comments

Re:Reflexive /. Gates bashing in 3...2...

[DemonGenius]

The real question is... will those toilets run Crysis?

This won't be his first shitty idea..

[backslashdot]

but I think we can all agree it's a damn good one.

Re:This won't be his first shitty idea..

[snspdaarf]

find a way to weaponize the toilets

It's called a bidet

Get a sense of humor

[www.sorehands.com]

It still will be a BSOD, the Brown Screen Of Death.

It is called humor dammit, even though it may be shitty humor.

BSoD will be replaced

[famazza]

Blue Screen of Death will be replaced by Blue Splash of Death, probably chemical.

TeePee

[Nanosphere]

Hi my name is TeePee, think of me as your potty assistant! It looks like you're trying to go #2...

Re:Reflexive /. Gates bashing in 3...2...

[jhoegl]

"He doesnt know what the three sea shells are for!"

Re:Reflexive /. Gates bashing in 3...2...

[Coffee Warlord]

No, the real question is...how the hell will the three sea shells work?