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Body Fluids
Glue-On Sweat Diverter
Rosecroft Components recently (Dec 2019) was granted a patent for a glue-on "sweat diverter". From their patent:When undertaking an activity causing sweating, a person can suffer from the effects of sweat dripping into his eyes. Many devices have been developed to address this problem, such as absorbent sweatbands. Such devices fail to prevent sweat from reaching the eyes once they become saturated, and must be dried or wrung out in order to restore their effectiveness...
Described herein are sweat-diverting devices which may be affixed to a wearer by an adhesive, such as a pressure-sensitive adhesive...
A sweat-diverting device may be reusable, with an adhesive reapplied for each wearing, or may be single use and disposable, with the adhesive integrated with the device during manufacturing.
Described herein are sweat-diverting devices which may be affixed to a wearer by an adhesive, such as a pressure-sensitive adhesive...
A sweat-diverting device may be reusable, with an adhesive reapplied for each wearing, or may be single use and disposable, with the adhesive integrated with the device during manufacturing.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 25, 2020 -
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Category: Fashion, Headgear, Inventions, Patents, Body Fluids
Of course, unmarried girls can use them!
Davenport Quad-City Times - June 14, 1959
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jul 26, 2020 -
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Category: Advertising, Gender, Body Fluids, 1950s
Urine Bread 2.0
Eight years ago, I posted about how prisoners held in a Japanese interment camp during World War II learned how to make bread using urine instead of yeast.Now I see that urine bread, of a kind, is back in the news. From bakeryandsnacks.com:
French engineer Louise Raguet baked 'Boucle d'Or' — Goldilocks bread — using wheat fertilized in urine gathered from female urinals in the 14th Arrondissement of Paris.
Raguet hopes to "break taboos over excrement" and create a more sustainable food and farming system that makes use of human refuse, while cutting farming costs and boosting crop yields.
Raguet hopes to "break taboos over excrement" and create a more sustainable food and farming system that makes use of human refuse, while cutting farming costs and boosting crop yields.
More info, in French, here (pdf).
The toilets in which the urine was collected
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jul 22, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Body Fluids, Excrement
Follies of the Madmen #459
Sanitary pad endows woman with power to make flowers sprout from inanimate objects.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 31, 2019 -
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Category: Body, Genitals, Business, Advertising, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #443
A toilet seat is never, ever going to resonate with "jewels."
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 10, 2019 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Domestic, Interior Decorating, Body Fluids, Excrement, Flatulence, 1960s
Latchkey Incontinence
As defined by a 2015 study published in the journal Biomedical Research:environmental cues are reported to be related to OAB [Overactive Bladder] symptoms. The cue that is most mentioned was upon arrival at an individual’s front door is defined as “latchkey incontinence”, which is a loss of urine that occurs when one arrives home and puts the key in the lock of one’s front door
Basically, it's the phenomenon that the closer you get to the bathroom, the more urgently you have to go.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 09, 2019 -
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Category: Bathrooms, Body Fluids
Even Can’t Literally Cocktail
The Yuzu bar in Lakewood, Ohio is offering a new "menstrual-themed" cocktail to help raise money for a local women's shelter. From their facebook post:It's that time of the month-- time for a new menu that is-- like this new cocktail-- Even Can't Literally / a berry #margarita thoughtfully complimented with a tampon applicator garnish / also $1 towards every purchase of this drink go to a donation fund for a #cle area women's shelter.
Posted By: Alex - Fri May 17, 2019 -
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Category: Inebriation and Intoxicants, Body Fluids, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust
Sympathetic Vomiting
An outbreak of mass vomiting at a school in North Carolina is being attributed to some kids getting upset stomachs from eating a combination of fruit juice and spicy chips, and then a bunch of other kids being triggered into “sympathetic vomiting.” That's when people vomit in response to seeing other people vomit. According to wisegeek.com, biologists suspect that the phenomenon has its roots in our evolutionary history:The smell of vomit is widely considered to be one of the worst in the world, and may induce nausea in anyone nearby. While this may be simply a reaction to a malodorous aroma, it is possible that the body has a subconscious reaction to the smell or sight of the vomit itself. Because of the possibility that something the sick person has consumed has made them ill or poisoned them, your body may chemically decide to rid itself of potentially poisoned contents as well. In groups of apes, group or sympathetic vomiting has been observed after one animal becomes ill after eating. Since the other animals in the tribe have likely eaten the same things, sympathetic vomiting may be used as a survival tactic.
Other cases of sympathetic vomiting occasionally make headlines, such as in 2014 when a flight was forced to make an emergency landing after one person's vomiting caused five other people to do likewise.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 29, 2019 -
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Category: Psychology, Body Fluids, Stomach
Vomit Sink
Apparently they're fairly common in German bars, where they go by various names: Kotzbecken, Speibecken, Expektorierbecken, or Pabst.More details: German wikipedia (via Google translate)
via Reddit
Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 15, 2019 -
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Category: Hygiene, Body Fluids
The Cow Toilet
Developed by the Dutch firm Hanskamp. How it works:The cow enters the gated feeding area. While the cow is eating, a small bucket automatically swings into place at the back of the cow, moving gently upwards and downwards, massaging her escutcheon – a nerve which stretches between the cow’s vulva and udder. This nerve triggers the urine reflex, causing the cow to urinate. The urine is collected in the CowToilet reservoir and is then extracted and stored separately.
(Today I learned that cow's have a urine reflex!) Once the urine has been collected, it can be processed to produce fertilizer, or even be used to generate electricity. Most importantly, it isn't polluting the ground.
The video below (which is in Dutch) shows the device in action. The demonstration begins at about 1:15. Warning: if you're really squeamish it might gross you out because it does show cows peeing.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 19, 2019 -
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Category: Inventions, Cows, Body Fluids
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