Thursday, April 27, 2006
Well, turns out there are no easy answers when it comes to trouser tracks. Splashback reduction has long stumped pissoir engineers(engineers specialising in urinals) ; it is, in fact, that profession's second biggest problem, nearly as great of a challenge as trying to explain exactly why you wound up measuring urination arcs for a living..lol..any pissoir engineers out there?
Gary Uhl, American standards's head designer, a man known as the Mozart of micturition science found that the mass of the ass plus the heat of the body equals the angle of the piss, the stunning discovery that revolutionized the urinal world. Wonder if he will actually name the equation units after his name..so for everybody out there, new equation to remember, next to your usual f=ma;
A =MT
where A= Angle of the dangle
M=Mass
T= tempearture
Another company, kohler, suggest you aim off center and 3 or so inches above the drain, where well designed urinals are likelest to curve. AVOID VERTICAL SURFACES AND SHARP ANGLES. Kathryn Streeby, Kohler's marketing manager for sanitary products says, "Where we're transitioning our designs in urinals as we go forward is creating angles that are almost cone shaped, to follow the trajectory of the urine stream. So you dont have to do personally do anything."....Except maybe zip up afterward..dont u hate it when u forget to zip up..damn, ill be honest, it happen to me a COUPLE of times..how bout making another device that zip up as well..mechanical engineers??..bet boon will be the pioneer in this field.
On the flipside, while i was looking around, i stumble across this cool ass urinal...this damn machine has sensors all over it to allow participants (both males and females) to draw using their urine. The resulting drawings are then displayed in real time in the gallery space, then automatically uploaded in the internet. And females, dont despair, they've created a device that assist in urinating precisely.
Heres the pic. The blue thing is your gallery on the urinal is your canvas
Why the heck would anyone do that? Apparently the people there acknowledges pissing as a creative activity...what?..whats next?..puking as a creative activity thus recording your different frequencies and then publishing a new hit single..anyways, its a quite a great piece of engineering. Heres a techinal drawinig of the concept..
With so many camera and even a WEBCAM, nothing is private anymore.
Whats more, every piss has a certain pH level, hence making this your "drawing signature". To learn more, visit http://www.telesthetic.org/pissoir/, so whenever ure engaging in your next "seasion" and accidently got some splashback action going on, fret not, always remember that are thousands of people out there in your situation.
Alex
10:57 AM
