DailyDirt: Spare A Square..?

Toilet humor might be funny to a wide audience, but to some folks, toilets are not a laughing matter -- it's business. Here are a few projects that are attempting to improve toilet technology.

• Some MIT business students are headed to Nairobi to start a toilet business. The pitch goes something like: "Everyone poops -- if we can just capture a fraction of that market..." [url]
• A pocket urinal for guys (which is basically a packet of diaper material) sounds like a great novelty gift. But there's probably an available surplus of NASA astronaut diapers now... why not wear some of those instead? [url]
• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is spending $3 million to re-invent the toilet. Hmm. One team for this challenge is going to develop microwave technology to transform human waste into electricity. [url]
• To find more interesting stuff on entrepreneurship, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]  

By the way, StumbleUpon can recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.

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