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Revolutionizing toilets by rethinking the network

Reblogged from GigaOM:

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Over time, networks often trend toward becoming more decentralized, more mobile, and less capital intensive to build out. Telecommunications did this with cell phones, and Skype laptop calls; the architecture of the Internet is like this; a future of solar rooftops could do the same thing for the power grid. Is it time for the humble toilet to get reinvented by applying these same principles to the sanitation network?

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I'm fascinated by all things usability and it's harder to think of anything the user interacts with more than the toilet... but I'm still trying to wrap my head around a "wireless and water-free" toilet. Isn't that basically a Port-A-Potty?

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