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Body Fluids
Urine-Fueled Distress Signals
Imagine that you're stuck in a remote location and you need to radio for help. But your radio has no power! Never fear. As long as you have some of these paper triangles created by researchers at the Bristol BioEnergy Centre — and you have to go to the bathroom — you'll have battery power. Just pee on the paper triangles and they produce enough power to send a radio signal.And what if you don't have to go? In that case, urine from just about any animal will do.
More details at Chemistry World.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 17, 2015 -
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Category: Science, Body Fluids
Urine-tricity
Lighting up the restroom with power produced from urine deposited therein, brilliant!
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 07, 2015 -
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Category: Bathrooms, Body Fluids, Natural Resources, Power Generation
Cow Urine Floor Cleaner
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 10, 2015 -
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Category: Cows, Body Fluids
Urine Stain Font
Aravindan Thirunavukarasu wrote letters on a wall by peeing on the wall. Then he developed a font based on his pee letters. And he invites everyone to download his pee font from his website, The Art of Peeing. [via CityLab]
Posted By: Alex - Mon Nov 03, 2014 -
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Category: Body Fluids
Pee Pocket
The Pee Pocket is yet another device that allows women to pee standing up. (I'm pretty sure I've posted about several other such devices.) It was designed by a heart surgeon. But what caught my eye were the possible plans to come out with a camouflage version of it marketed to hunters. Says the inventor in an interview with Local News 8 of Idaho Falls: "Hunters have all this garb and warm gear on, and they can't get it off. When they go to the bathroom, it's not just unzip. Sometimes it's cold, and it doesn't reach, so they put this inside the clothes to give them the extra length they need to pee without taking off all the garb."I guess it's important that the hunters stay fully camouflaged while relieving themselves.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 21, 2014 -
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Category: Body Fluids
Peeing in the ocean
Go ahead and pee there all you want. Scientists give it an official thumbs up!
Posted By: Alex - Thu Sep 18, 2014 -
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Category: Body Fluids
Dry-Tabs
As you might suspect, these pills eventually met with Federal displeasure.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 23, 2013 -
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Category: Bathrooms, Body, Medicine, Advertising, Body Fluids, 1950s
Peeing While Standing
Brigham Young University's Splash Lab produced this slow-mo simulation of what happens when a man pees into a toilet bowl while standing up. They write:
The amount of splash is considerable and should make one reconsider standing up to urinate. The repeated impact of the droplets opens up a large and interesting cavity with multiple ridges. Each droplet forms a small cavity wherein the next droplet can pass through and form a cavity an additional cavity creating a chain of small cavity structures. Splash is formed both from the initial impact as well as the collapse of this large cavity. The process repeats itself over and over creating a real mess.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 05, 2013 -
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Category: Body Fluids
Justin Bieber’s Saliva
Fans don't seem to mind his spitting. One posted on twitter: "IF JUSTIN BIEBER SPIT ON ME ID SAVE IT AND NEVER COMPLAIN." [cbc.ca, zimbio]
This brings to mind the Irish singer Dickie Rock from the 1960s who was known for spitting on his fans, and his fans loving it (begging him to do it). I'll just repost part of Dr. Mark Griffiths' observations on spitting fetishes which I previously posted with regard to Dickie Rock:
much of the online literature on spitting fetishes (as opposed to saliva fetishes) appears to be rooted in BDSM and is usually referred to as 'spitting domination'. The dominant partner may spit into their submissive partner's face and/or mouth. The submissive partner may also be forced to swallow the liquid spit if their mouth is spat into. Many of the online articles about spitting fetishes see parallels between the act of spitting and the act of ejaculation – particularly in relation to 'facials' (i.e., the act of men ejaculating onto someone's face) and the practice of bukkake (i.e., the act of many men simultaneously ejaculating onto someone's face and/or body)...
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jul 28, 2013 -
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Category: Celebrities, Body Fluids
The Freedom Flask
I'm not sure if the point of this is to hide your booze, or to make your friends think you're drinking pee.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 22, 2013 -
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Category: Body Fluids
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