Are you one of those people who hate sitting down on a warm toilet seat, because it creeps you out sensing someone else was just there?
Now there is new hope: The thermochromatic toilet seat, which changes color, when warm. Created by graphic designer Peter Crnokrak.
And there's more. Inventors have also tried to come up with a way to shame men into doing what they're supposed to do at the right place with the right aim. Some airport have applied a tiny fly so men get something to aim at. Another version is having someone watching, like this . . .
This restroom can be found in the New Zealand hotel, Sofitel Queenstown, designed by the complex's developers Cam Marsh and Mark Perriam of Perron, and Brett Taylor of Group CDA.
Queenstown photographer Sheena Haywood shot the images of models from local agency Ican -- after Auckland model agencies turned down the job when they heard where the images were going to be placed. 'We had a lot of fun with the shoot, made all the better for the fact that there weren't any men there when we did it,' said Sheena. Queenstown Signs made up the huge posters which are protected (naturally enough) by a backlit glass wall, and there are plans to change the images on a regular basis. 'We were casting around for ideas with our Auckland creative agency Ideology to do something a bit different in the men's room when we hit on this,' said Perron Marketing Manager Peter Dallimore. 'The wall has only been in place for just over a fortnight and we've already had some very funny feedback.
It's used by guests or visitors to restaurants and bars within the Sofitel complex. 'One guy said it was a bit disconcerting to be 'going about his business' and to have so many pairs of eyes watching him, a bit like the Mona Lisa effect. Others have called it 'hilarious' or say it makes them feel like going to the gym.' Flush with success, Sofitel General Manager Mark Wilkinson said the men's 'loo art' had been a great talking point.
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