Things you'd like inventing that haven't been invented yet

[Gwylan]

While out walking in Accrington town centre yesterday I needed a pee. I was quite a walk from the nearest toilet and I didn't fancy going there anyway, as it's quote...a smack head hangout place. Anyway, I nipped into a shop where I know the owner and asked if I could use their toilet, so he let me. This made me think about a portable privacy screen urinal. You'd simply unfold this tent like contraption, stand in it then lift it up to head height, then use a bottle to pee in. The screen would be a fluorescent colour so no one would accidentally walk into it and it would probably have a WARNING PLEASE DO NOT ENTER. PERSON INSIDE IS HAVING A BODILY FUNCTION sign on all four sides. I realise this could be difficult for females and the disabled, so this is more for able bodied males, but I still think it could be a seller. 🤔

Up there with the personal anti meteorite shower umbrella hat attachment.
Phone ringing?
That'll be Dragon's Den😉

 

[winjim]

Up there with the personal anti meteorite shower umbrella hat attachment.
Phone ringing?
That'll be Dragon's Den😉

Sounds like a good idea for a chindogu.

 

[fossyant]

While out walking in Accrington town centre yesterday I needed a pee. I was quite a walk from the nearest toilet and I didn't fancy going there anyway, as it's quote...a smack head hangout place. Anyway, I nipped into a shop where I know the owner and asked if I could use their toilet, so he let me. This made me think about a portable privacy screen urinal. You'd simply unfold this tent like contraption, stand in it then lift it up to head height, then use a bottle to pee in. The screen would be a fluorescent colour so no one would accidentally walk into it and it would probably have a WARNING PLEASE DO NOT ENTER. PERSON INSIDE IS HAVING A BODILY FUNCTION sign on all four sides. I realise this could be difficult for females and the disabled, so this is more for able bodied males, but I still think it could be a seller. 🤔

Have you not seen 'toilet tents' - oh yes they are a thing. Pop up tents. From about £20. Suitable for campers and 'old people'

 

[Mike_P]

So already invented; what is needed would a development taken from Star Trek, waste bodily fluid and matter transported automatically to the sewage works
No more dashing behind a hedge (if available) or staring across a field gate etc when out cycling.

 

[lazybloke]

So already invented; what is needed would a development taken from Star Trek, waste bodily fluid and matter transported automatically to the sewage works
No more dashing behind a hedge (if available) or staring across a field gate etc when out cycling.

Bonus for removal of kidney stones, etc

 

[ColinJ]

While out walking in Accrington town centre yesterday I needed a pee. I was quite a walk from the nearest toilet and I didn't fancy going there anyway, as it's quote...a smack head hangout place. Anyway, I nipped into a shop where I know the owner and asked if I could use their toilet, so he let me. This made me think about a portable privacy screen urinal. You'd simply unfold this tent like contraption, stand in it then lift it up to head height, then use a bottle to pee in. The screen would be a fluorescent colour so no one would accidentally walk into it and it would probably have a WARNING PLEASE DO NOT ENTER. PERSON INSIDE IS HAVING A BODILY FUNCTION sign on all four sides. I realise this could be difficult for females and the disabled, so this is more for able bodied males, but I still think it could be a seller. 🤔

Actually, I remember that Josie Dew used this technique years ago! (It was probably described in The Wind In My Wheels?)

 

[oldwheels]

Have you not seen 'toilet tents' - oh yes they are a thing. Pop up tents. From about £20. Suitable for campers and 'old people'

Cycle cape does also according to Josie Dew.
I see ColinJ just beat me to it. She mentions the idea in several of her books.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Or, how about this one, regarding chap urinals. You have a device that you put over Percy, a bit like a heavy duty condom, which has a discreet pipe attached. The pipe goes down your leg and is attached by a loop/strap to the ankle. When you feel the need you simply pee, letting the flow go down the pipe, onto the floor, but preferably over a drain. While this is happening you are advised to look around, like you're trying to spot something, not looking at all at the puddle forming under your footwear. When you've finished you simply walk away. 🤔 🧐

 

[winjim]

Or, how about this one, regarding chap urinals. You have a device that you put over Percy, a bit like a heavy duty condom, which has a discreet pipe attached. The pipe goes down your leg and is attached by a loop/strap to the ankle. When you feel the need you simply pee, letting the flow go down the pipe, onto the floor, but preferably over a drain. While this is happening you are advised to look around, like you're trying to spot something, not looking at all at the puddle forming under your footwear. When you've finished you simply walk away. 🤔 🧐

Spike Milligan, Rommel? Gunner Who?

 

[DRM]

Or, how about this one, regarding chap urinals. You have a device that you put over Percy, a bit like a heavy duty condom, which has a discreet pipe attached. The pipe goes down your leg and is attached by a loop/strap to the ankle. When you feel the need you simply pee, letting the flow go down the pipe, onto the floor, but preferably over a drain. While this is happening you are advised to look around, like you're trying to spot something, not looking at all at the puddle forming under your footwear. When you've finished you simply walk away. 🤔 🧐

It's already a thing, was in use at least 40 years ago in care homes Mrs DRM worked in, male (non inserted) catheter if my memory serves me right

 

[DRM]

Spike Milligan, Rommel? Gunner Who?

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Really funny series of books