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(thought I'd post this here, as it isn't highbrow enough for the life forum. Strenuous gaming link included...)
Mankind has progressed far since the early days of making tools from wood and stone and the invention of the wheel.
Now we have all these weird and diverse contraptions to take the work out of menial everyday tasks. As technology advances our ability to create increases as things once thought impossible are now everyday happenings.
An important part of this is also to take pre-existing concepts and improve on them (if this didn't happen, we'd still be playing on Master Systems and NES systems).
Every now and then you hear of some well funded research project into something like: 'Investigating why cornflakes go soggy' or 'redesigning the spout of a kettle to get the perfect pour'.
Now with the example of the kettle, they used masses of equations to model liquid flow aswell as the use of computer aided design to help.
In games they too strive to improve the models of the in game physics, take waverace to waverace blue storm... the improved water dynamics (as well as graphics, animation techniques) were present.
[warning: what may seem to be an ok topic, will go downhill in the next few lines]
So with all these advances and the drive to improve what we already have, then why oh why can we not design a toilet which effectively flushes away floaters (and the ones which sink and stay at the bottom).
Is it too much to ask to go to the toilet and not be greeted by a large or small (or log sized) poo staring up at you from the toilet bowl?
I've seen it in games, Banjo and Kazooie flushed themselves down a loo without getting stuck, and would the Slopprano exist in Conkers Bad Fur Day if the coders at Rare were unable to code an ingame toilet which doesn't block or retain little poops.
For goodness sake in Japan toilets (the swanky ones) come with contol panels, with options to clean your behind with a little water jet, and seat warmers... .
So in the future do you think we'll see (now Rare is on board) microsoft toilets?
Just imagine doing your business then your multitasking Xbox 2 cleans up any mess by remote controlling your microsoft toilet.
I suppose there could be complications if there was a power surge and your Xbox2 emailed your bottom to Canada or somewhere via Xbox live.
Mankind has progressed far since the early days of making tools from wood and stone and the invention of the wheel.
Now we have all these weird and diverse contraptions to take the work out of menial everyday tasks. As technology advances our ability to create increases as things once thought impossible are now everyday happenings.
An important part of this is also to take pre-existing concepts and improve on them (if this didn't happen, we'd still be playing on Master Systems and NES systems).
Every now and then you hear of some well funded research project into something like: 'Investigating why cornflakes go soggy' or 'redesigning the spout of a kettle to get the perfect pour'.
Now with the example of the kettle, they used masses of equations to model liquid flow aswell as the use of computer aided design to help.
In games they too strive to improve the models of the in game physics, take waverace to waverace blue storm... the improved water dynamics (as well as graphics, animation techniques) were present.
[warning: what may seem to be an ok topic, will go downhill in the next few lines]
So with all these advances and the drive to improve what we already have, then why oh why can we not design a toilet which effectively flushes away floaters (and the ones which sink and stay at the bottom).
Is it too much to ask to go to the toilet and not be greeted by a large or small (or log sized) poo staring up at you from the toilet bowl?
I've seen it in games, Banjo and Kazooie flushed themselves down a loo without getting stuck, and would the Slopprano exist in Conkers Bad Fur Day if the coders at Rare were unable to code an ingame toilet which doesn't block or retain little poops.
For goodness sake in Japan toilets (the swanky ones) come with contol panels, with options to clean your behind with a little water jet, and seat warmers... .
So in the future do you think we'll see (now Rare is on board) microsoft toilets?
Just imagine doing your business then your multitasking Xbox 2 cleans up any mess by remote controlling your microsoft toilet.
I suppose there could be complications if there was a power surge and your Xbox2 emailed your bottom to Canada or somewhere via Xbox live.
And I thought you were going to query why we can't cure cancer. Still, you're full of suprises.
...i thought the bit after you said it was going to go downhill, was gonna be crap, but no. I laughed!
sideshow buzz wrote:
> So in the future do you think we'll see (now Rare is on board)
> microsoft toilets?
> Just imagine doing your business then your multitasking Xbox 2 cleans
> up any mess by remote controlling your microsoft toilet.
> I suppose there could be complications if there was a power surge and
> your Xbox2 emailed your bottom to Canada or somewhere via Xbox live.
and some other stuff
http://special.reserve.co.uk/news/story.php?id=2583
Spooky?
> So in the future do you think we'll see (now Rare is on board)
> microsoft toilets?
> Just imagine doing your business then your multitasking Xbox 2 cleans
> up any mess by remote controlling your microsoft toilet.
> I suppose there could be complications if there was a power surge and
> your Xbox2 emailed your bottom to Canada or somewhere via Xbox live.
and some other stuff
http://special.reserve.co.uk/news/story.php?id=2583
Spooky?
I'd completely forgotten that I'd written this until I was reminded of my 'inspiration' for it when visiting the toilet about 5 minutes ago (the original one sat there in the bowl for 5 days).
Someone had left another sloprano in there, unfortunately the culprit is too lazy to get the bog brush and give it a good poke or a ram down the toilet.
Its not too much to ask,since we don't have the advantages of turbo flush toilets or those little shelves which 'it' sits on in some continental toilets, that if you leave an immovable object in the toilet that you clean it up.
err, brief gaming link again... [back to gutter humour]
using the analogue stick on the xbox toilets controler to guide a fine presureised jet of water to clean up any mess after a volatile curry...
and sensors in the xbox toilet to detect if you have done an impressive poo at which point your in bathroom 32 inch tv screen will pop up and an animated image of Bill Gates apears and congratulates you on your creation.
Someone had left another sloprano in there, unfortunately the culprit is too lazy to get the bog brush and give it a good poke or a ram down the toilet.
Its not too much to ask,since we don't have the advantages of turbo flush toilets or those little shelves which 'it' sits on in some continental toilets, that if you leave an immovable object in the toilet that you clean it up.
err, brief gaming link again... [back to gutter humour]
using the analogue stick on the xbox toilets controler to guide a fine presureised jet of water to clean up any mess after a volatile curry...
and sensors in the xbox toilet to detect if you have done an impressive poo at which point your in bathroom 32 inch tv screen will pop up and an animated image of Bill Gates apears and congratulates you on your creation.
Well, considering Xbox2 will be the ultimate console incorporating all elements of entertainment and living such as TV, DVD, games, radio, Hi-Fi, MiniDisc, Toilet, Fridge/Freezer, Electric Cooker, Microwave, Home PC, Printer, Digicam, Washing Machine, Drier, Trouser Press, Telephone and ambient lighting it may well cost a fair amount. But when you compare the price of the Xbox2 to buying all these items seperately, it's significantly lower! This is because the cost is spread over each and every device included on the Xbox2, meaning lower cost to you, the consumer!
*cheesy salesman grin*
And just wait till the Xbox3. No, this isn't just the complete entertainment and living experience, it will also include many great new features. The Xbox3 will be the most revolutionary console ever allowing you to actually live inside it. As well as all the functions served by the Xbox2, Xbox3 will double as a 3 bedroom house (en suite bathrooms), a motor home (4 wheel drive as standard), a nuclear bunker (with free bio-chemical suits included) and a small air base for US forces. And you can still bet it'll have the best games on any console platform out there.
*cheesy salesman grin* (again)
*cheesy salesman grin*
And just wait till the Xbox3. No, this isn't just the complete entertainment and living experience, it will also include many great new features. The Xbox3 will be the most revolutionary console ever allowing you to actually live inside it. As well as all the functions served by the Xbox2, Xbox3 will double as a 3 bedroom house (en suite bathrooms), a motor home (4 wheel drive as standard), a nuclear bunker (with free bio-chemical suits included) and a small air base for US forces. And you can still bet it'll have the best games on any console platform out there.
*cheesy salesman grin* (again)
Sibs wrote:
> Nah, forget standalone toilets, the Xbox2 is going to be the complete
> entertainment and living experience. It'll have a toilet included on
> it as standard.
Will that cost more
> Nah, forget standalone toilets, the Xbox2 is going to be the complete
> entertainment and living experience. It'll have a toilet included on
> it as standard.
Will that cost more
Nah, forget standalone toilets, the Xbox2 is going to be the complete entertainment and living experience. It'll have a toilet included on it as standard.
Heh, someone's had the runs..obviously :D
To be serious, that is why I (sort of) envy the Japanese. I mean they have toilets that clean their arsses for them, robots that do their house chores for them and get every new piece of tehnology decades before the rest of the world.
They're even making computer-controlled houses for the future where ever possible function in the house is linked to the internet. You can download tracks from the internet straight into your car and stuff like that.
Ah well
To be serious, that is why I (sort of) envy the Japanese. I mean they have toilets that clean their arsses for them, robots that do their house chores for them and get every new piece of tehnology decades before the rest of the world.
They're even making computer-controlled houses for the future where ever possible function in the house is linked to the internet. You can download tracks from the internet straight into your car and stuff like that.
Ah well
(thought I'd post this here, as it isn't highbrow enough for the life forum. Strenuous gaming link included...)
Mankind has progressed far since the early days of making tools from wood and stone and the invention of the wheel.
Now we have all these weird and diverse contraptions to take the work out of menial everyday tasks. As technology advances our ability to create increases as things once thought impossible are now everyday happenings.
An important part of this is also to take pre-existing concepts and improve on them (if this didn't happen, we'd still be playing on Master Systems and NES systems).
Every now and then you hear of some well funded research project into something like: 'Investigating why cornflakes go soggy' or 'redesigning the spout of a kettle to get the perfect pour'.
Now with the example of the kettle, they used masses of equations to model liquid flow aswell as the use of computer aided design to help.
In games they too strive to improve the models of the in game physics, take waverace to waverace blue storm... the improved water dynamics (as well as graphics, animation techniques) were present.
[warning: what may seem to be an ok topic, will go downhill in the next few lines]
So with all these advances and the drive to improve what we already have, then why oh why can we not design a toilet which effectively flushes away floaters (and the ones which sink and stay at the bottom).
Is it too much to ask to go to the toilet and not be greeted by a large or small (or log sized) poo staring up at you from the toilet bowl?
I've seen it in games, Banjo and Kazooie flushed themselves down a loo without getting stuck, and would the Slopprano exist in Conkers Bad Fur Day if the coders at Rare were unable to code an ingame toilet which doesn't block or retain little poops.
For goodness sake in Japan toilets (the swanky ones) come with contol panels, with options to clean your behind with a little water jet, and seat warmers... .
So in the future do you think we'll see (now Rare is on board) microsoft toilets?
Just imagine doing your business then your multitasking Xbox 2 cleans up any mess by remote controlling your microsoft toilet.
I suppose there could be complications if there was a power surge and your Xbox2 emailed your bottom to Canada or somewhere via Xbox live.
Mankind has progressed far since the early days of making tools from wood and stone and the invention of the wheel.
Now we have all these weird and diverse contraptions to take the work out of menial everyday tasks. As technology advances our ability to create increases as things once thought impossible are now everyday happenings.
An important part of this is also to take pre-existing concepts and improve on them (if this didn't happen, we'd still be playing on Master Systems and NES systems).
Every now and then you hear of some well funded research project into something like: 'Investigating why cornflakes go soggy' or 'redesigning the spout of a kettle to get the perfect pour'.
Now with the example of the kettle, they used masses of equations to model liquid flow aswell as the use of computer aided design to help.
In games they too strive to improve the models of the in game physics, take waverace to waverace blue storm... the improved water dynamics (as well as graphics, animation techniques) were present.
[warning: what may seem to be an ok topic, will go downhill in the next few lines]
So with all these advances and the drive to improve what we already have, then why oh why can we not design a toilet which effectively flushes away floaters (and the ones which sink and stay at the bottom).
Is it too much to ask to go to the toilet and not be greeted by a large or small (or log sized) poo staring up at you from the toilet bowl?
I've seen it in games, Banjo and Kazooie flushed themselves down a loo without getting stuck, and would the Slopprano exist in Conkers Bad Fur Day if the coders at Rare were unable to code an ingame toilet which doesn't block or retain little poops.
For goodness sake in Japan toilets (the swanky ones) come with contol panels, with options to clean your behind with a little water jet, and seat warmers... .
So in the future do you think we'll see (now Rare is on board) microsoft toilets?
Just imagine doing your business then your multitasking Xbox 2 cleans up any mess by remote controlling your microsoft toilet.
I suppose there could be complications if there was a power surge and your Xbox2 emailed your bottom to Canada or somewhere via Xbox live.