Deciding when to skip out to the restroom during a new movie can be tough – you don’t want to miss anything crucial. But website RunPee aims to help you know the exact right time to go. The page has time-lines for popular movies, that list suggested points throughout the film when you can leave without missing an important scene. It also tells you how much time you have to get back, and has a scrambled re-cap, that can be revealed and reviewed when you return.
Although it’s a useful idea, RunPee uses Flash, which would not make it a good [...]

Industrial designers Jiang Qian and Chen Feijun have come up with an interesting concept-design hand dryer and sanitizer that’s about the size of a small flat-screen monitor. The machine will both dry off wet hands and disinfect them using an ozone generator. For good measure, they’ve made it solar-powered (though we’re not quite sure how the sunlight gets in the bathroom), and it’s small size makes it easy to hang.
[via ecofriend]

The “OneSelf” is a suite of bathroom gadgets that’s hidden behind a wall of panels, but pulls out for use. Designer Pavel created the OneSelf as a bathroom for people living alone, which would work just fine, but the idea falls flat when guests may come over. Still, it’s a unique space saving design that could be incorporated in a less public fashion.
[Yanko via Treehugger]