Toilet Archive

  • Motorola releasing two new Droids, “leaks” notwithstanding

    Motorola releasing two new Droids, “leaks” notwithstanding

    According to the WSJ, Motorola president Sanjay Jha said that “We will introduce new Droid products in the Verizon franchise.” This probably means something like the Droid Shadow that “appeared” in a toilet recently. We can also expect about a dozen new phones from Motorola this year, although not all of them will run Android. via Giz

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  • The long wait for a toilet speaker is over

    The long wait for a toilet speaker is over

    A tiny speaker shaped like a toilet may already exist but the thought of searching Google for “USB Toilet Speaker” just makes me want to crawl back into bed. It’d be a new low for my career. Oh, who am I kidding? I just searched and it already exists. In several colors, even.

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  • Woot! Refurbished iPhone 3G for $380

    Woot! Refurbished iPhone 3G for $380

    What happened to your iPhone? It broke?! How?!! Just stopped working?! Really?! You didn’t drop it in the toilet? You dropped it in the toilet, didn’t you? Ah, the truth comes out. You dropped it in the toilet.

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  • Robocops to roam the streets of San Jose

    Robocops to roam the streets of San Jose

    According to the Mercury News, cops in San Jose will soon be wearing head-mounted video cameras to record their interaction with civilians. The devices will sit above their ears and they will be activated whenever they speak with a citizen or suspect. The videos will then be uploaded to a central server. Presumably these things turn off when the officers are in the toilet. Why is this happening? Because people don't trust cops right now. The system, called AXON, can also attach to other parts of the body.

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  • Eye-Fi goes FTP

    Eye-Fi goes FTP

    The Eye-Fi card is famous for being a cool, fun way to upload, inadvertently, images of you and your friends naked or on the toilet. Now, however, you can upload those naked photos to your local FTP/FTPS server. This service allows you to bypass standard photo-sharing sites like Flickr and dump your stuff up unfettered by the limitations placed upon us by photo sites.

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  • Panasonic’s dish washing robot

    Panasonic’s dish washing robot

    We have reported about a number of household robots from Japan in the past. Those machines covered areas like preparing sushi or pancakes, cleaning the house or the toilet. Last December, we reported about a kitchen robot that's able to do your dishes without breaking them. And today, Panasonic showcased an updated version of that very robot in Tokyo.

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  • HTC WinMo phones could allow hackers to infect you via Bluetooth

    HTC WinMo phones could allow hackers to infect you via Bluetooth

    While this will never happen to you ever, if you own an HTC running WinMo 6 or 6.1 you could get hacked if you accept Bluetooth connections from an untrusted source. Also if you accept Bluetooth connections from an untrusted source you deserve to be hacked. The exploit uses the Bluetooth OBEX FTP service to crack [...]

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