Microsoft Rolls Out iLoo 419
TommyTyker writes "According to this CNet article, Microsoft is using England as a test bed for the iLoo -- a 'PortaJohn' that allows the 'user' to surf the net while taking care of 'business.' MSN is even looking at getting TP manufacturers to create some of their product with URL's printed on them. Pooptastic!" Life does not imitate the Onion. No, sir.
Mores sense if it was outside the loo! (Score:5, Insightful)
But it would be much better for the people waiting.
England?? No, Japan! (Score:5, Insightful)
England is their testbed?
They should be taking it to Japan, where toilets are already equipped with countless unimaginable electronic doodads.
Yuck (Score:2, Insightful)
Secondly, I'd be disinclined to touch a keyboard in a loo under any circumstances, but even more so considering the pr0n-viewing factor. Nuf said.
A new golden age for.... (Score:3, Insightful)
think of all the pr0n surfing one could do at a iLoo.
Trying to one-up Apple? (Score:5, Insightful)
Microsoft responds with a hygiene disaster, and a way to make sure there are a lot of people at public events banging on the doors of porta-potties and peeing their pants.
Way to go, Microsoft. You've hereby invented the WORST IDEA EVER. That's innovation.
Brand association (Score:5, Insightful)
The Onion as the source of inspiration? (Score:3, Insightful)
Close.. (Score:2, Insightful)
How sanitary is this? (Score:5, Insightful)
Perhaps a better, cleaner idea would be to have a machine with voice recognition built in and no keyboard. One might have to limit the types of pages someone could view because of the limited environment, but I'd much more readily use that then ever pick up one of those disgusting keyboards.
Summer concert or festival????? (Score:3, Insightful)
I can see it now:
It's a summer concert, people drink alot of beer, the bathroom line is usually 15 minutes, you can see people crossing their legs they have to go so bad, and there you are, sitting on the damn toilet, browsing the web when you should be finishing your 'business'.
These porta-potties better have a secret back door for escaping...
Blue Screen of Skidmarks? (Score:3, Insightful)
My god the jokes possible! (Score:2, Insightful)
This is a hoax right? The reporter has been taken for a ride, and this is what
Anyone who has been in a porta-potty knows that the smell is so bad that you wouldn't stick around for Hotmail to finish loading, while you are making your download.
hourra!! (Score:3, Insightful)
This is a wonderful piece of Microsoft technology(tm) !
Re:NYC Desktop. (Score:3, Insightful)
rj
sounds like... (Score:2, Insightful)
hmmm. 'i-loo' sounds suspiciously similar to 'i-tunes'. do i detect some corporate marketing jealousy/sh*t-flinging going on?
I sure hope it's not a touch-screen!
Re:Those service calls... (Score:2, Insightful)
Anyhoo, I thought regular keyboards had a serious enuf problem with tests for fecal matter.
You *can't* be taking this seriously... (Score:3, Insightful)
This can't be serious because of all the obvious issues and problems that have been discussed both humorously and seriously ad nauseum in previous posts. Hygiene, hardware durability, monopolizing the facility, etc.
What kind of EULA are they going to have for this? Once you use their facility, you can't use any other toilet unless it's an MS approved toilet? They already want your first born male child, do they now want all your offal as well?
This can not be serious.
Well shit (Score:2, Insightful)