{"id":10677,"date":"2006-11-21T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T20:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/11\/21\/the-james-bond-urinal.html"},"modified":"2006-11-21T13:05:14","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T20:05:14","slug":"the_james_bond_urinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/21\/the_james_bond_urinal.html","title":{"rendered":"The James Bond Urinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Urilift fully, um, erect\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/urilift.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>No, it doesn&#8217;t appear in the newest Bond flick, Victoria, Canada, is going to be experimenting with another type of crime-proof, nice-to-look-at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnchow.com\/the-worlds-most-high-tech-urinal\/\" target=\"_blank\">public urinal<\/a> to deal with their &#8220;nighttime urination problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p nd=\"1\">Unlike the automated, self-cleaning toilets planned for Toronto and Vancouver, which are enclosed booths with doors that that automatically open after a set time period, the Urilift system is a two-meter high stainless steel cylinder with three alcoves, each with a urinal, and no doors.<\/p>\n<p nd=\"2\">By day, the Urilift is lowered below street level for a nice clean look. Then at night, an operator comes by with a remote and the Urilift hydraulically lifts to sidewalk level in about two minutes. Then the unit is ready to serve all the nighttime party animals who don\u2019t mind peeing in a very exposed public urinal. <\/p>\n<p nd=\"3\">Because there are no doors, there is little danger of any unauthorized or illegal activities. San Francisco and Seattle\u2019s auto-toilets have been derided as dens for drug dealers and prostitutes. In addition, the presence of an attendant nearby to lower the system in the morning means it\u2019s unlikely a drunken reveler who slumps over the Urilift will wake up under the street. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p nd=\"3\">It is, of course, designed for male usage (which means we&#8217;re unlike to ever see them in the US).  They cost $75K a pop-up.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p nd=\"3\">(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekpress.com\/2006\/11\/worlds-most-high-tech-urinal.html\" target=\"_blank\">GeekPress<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it doesn&#8217;t appear in the newest Bond flick, Victoria, Canada, is going to be experimenting with another type of crime-proof, nice-to-look-at public urinal to deal with their &#8220;nighttime&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28625,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/16\/getting-pissed-about-urinals.html","url_meta":{"origin":10677,"position":0},"title":"Getting pissed about urinals","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Jul-12 11:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"To my mind, this should be addressed in purely practical terms regarding space utilization and water usage. \u00a0I have no problem with labeling all heads aboard a carrier as unisex, regardless of whether the room has a urinal on the wall (I suspect women sailors will not be offended). \u00a0A\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16640,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/31\/tweets-from-2010-01-31.html","url_meta":{"origin":10677,"position":1},"title":"Tweets from 2010-01-31","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 31-Jan-10 11:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY! 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