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- personjerry 11y agoThat's pretty damn innovative for Microsoft. It's a shame they didn't have the balls to stick to it. That could've been the first step to electronics in all sorts of places, maybe even would've led to Microsoft spearheading IoT.
- HappyTypist 11y agoNovel, yes, but I wouldn't call it innovative. It seems overkill and I can't think of many practical uses. Hotmail station is icky (dirty kryvoard). Keyboardless applications.. Hmm, video chat with other iLoo users?? If you want to commercialise the public toilet in 2003, just add a stack of mildly interesting sponsored magazines, and build an internet station with Hotmail like a public telephone.
- doque 11y agoThe i-Loo featured an internet-enabled monitor on the cubicle wall and a special printer that would allow users to print information on a standard toilet paper roll. I would have loved to see that product pitch.
- collyw 11y agoTake a photo of your boss, and get great satisfaction in going to the toilet.
- agumonkey 11y agoPotential for nation wide mental health improvements.
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- romaniv 11y agohttp://crossdysfunctional.tumblr.com/post/92902946302/valroll http://crossdysfunctional.tumblr.com/post/92902946302/valrol... Funny, but that blog had a "pitch" for Twitting toilet somewhere as well. It seems Microsoft combined both jokes into a single real-life product.
- amelius 11y agoI think it is just Microsoft's way of making fun of Apple's product naming convention.
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- danieltillett 11y agoSomeone always has to spoil the party by blurting out the truth :)
- MrBuddyCasino 11y agoCombining keyboards and festival toilets, the two dirtiest things known to mankind, only seems logical. This could have spawned new lifeforms.
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- gpvos 11y agoDon't forget doorknobs, the dirtiest thing unknown to mankind.
- steckerbrett 11y agoLots are made of copper which would dispel that entirely.
- agumonkey 11y agoFor the curious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_copper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_co...
- burger_moon 11y agoI think you mean brass. Edit: maybe not as the other commenter pointed out.
- steckerbrett 11y agoBrass or silver would do the job too.
- sosuke 11y agoSilver doorknobs would have a nasty problem of vanishing all the time.
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- kristopolous 11y agoYet another great innovation crushed by unimaginative soulless beauracrats.
- mechazawa 11y agoSounds like a masturbatorium
- aaron695 11y agoReminds me of the time Nintendo came up with the world's stupidest name for a console, the Wii. The jokes that came out then too.
- smcl 11y agoI remember in the announcement they had a great tagline that completely changed my reaction from "lol, stupid name" to "OK that is good" - Wii will change everything
- rawnlq 11y agoThe name "iPad" was made fun of a lot too when it was first announced (being compared to tampons and stuff). That aside, I think iLoo is a genuinely stupid idea and no amount of rebranding could've saved it.
- Kliment 11y agoAt the CCC Camp there is something called the Datenklo (Data toilet) where they use festival toilets as weatherproofing for network equipment.
- BuildTheRobots 11y agoWe had them at EMF Camp too. There's something quite obscene about camping but with a 230v mains feed and >100mbit internet to your tent :)
- Vexs 11y agoYou can just imagine the circumstances that led up to that being made. I suppose there is a market for weatherproof server racks nowadays with all these pesky kids and their gosh-darn cellphones at camps. The dataloo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/CCCamp_2007_Datenklo.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/CCCamp_2...
- netcan 11y agoNear where I grew up, a petrol station toilet functioned as a de facto public toilet for passersby. The owner must have been a lilt eccentric. Anyway, when you turned on the light a little disco ball would light up and some high energy pop song would play: "I Want to Break Free," "YMCA".. something like that. It was the talk of the town. iLoo seems like a bad idea, but for an unconventional marketing campaign, doing something with festival toilets is not a bad idea. If you've seen Better Call Saul's talking toilet, that would be a particularly impactful approach.
- highlander 11y ago...or as we called it in Scotland, "iBog"
- em3rgent0rdr 11y agoWay ahead of its time. Nowadays everyone uses the internet while on the toilet.
- icanhackit 11y agoThe flush servo is connected to a Windows ME box via serial. Fuck.
- kluck 11y agoiLoo - there goes my iPoo
- tempodox 11y ago... cancelled because it would do little to promote the MSN brand. It would have promoted the brand to be sure, just not in the direction they wanted. I wonder if they were inspired by Apple to use an iName. But then, “internet” was the best excuse ever for the ridiculous leading vocal.
- Tuna-Fish 11y agoApple didn't invent the iName, they were late on that bandwagon. For some unfathomable reason i or e whatevers were for a while the way to name your product if you had no better ideas. In fact, Apple have had to buy or otherwise acquire most of the iNames they use from previous users. (Including at least iPhone, iOS, iPad.) However, all the other consumer iWhatevers were generally completely uninspired products that didn't live long and which no-one remembers, while people do remember the Apple iProducts, so iNames are now associated with Apple.
- louithethrid 11y agoIm sorry but you need to register a toilett paper license first at microsoft.com. Do not support unclean behinds! Report people doing the crapwalk!
- yitchelle 11y agoThat is after reading the EULA printed on the said toilet paper.
- yellowapple 11y agoThat's assuming the EULA will fit on said toilet paper.
- pluma 11y agoToilet Seat Genuine Advantage.
- gadders 11y agoTangentially related, but I remember reading a "Top Tip" in Viz (which is an adult comic - think Onion but more English and stupid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viz_(comics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viz_(comics)) which was along the lines of: When at your friends house, subtly announce to them that you need a poo by asking for their wifi password.
- thedogeye 11y agoThe lines for the bathroom at our office are so bad, I actually want to block the wifi in there so people will hurry up and get off the can...
- doozler 11y agoHow have I never heard of this before?! In a way I think it was brave of Microsoft to try something like this, something so out of the box for the company.
- circa 11y agoand here I am thinking it was the next version of HP's iLO - http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/servers/ilo/integrated-lights-out.html http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/servers/ilo/integrated-lig...
- mung 11y agoWas the latest in a long line of shit products.
- jstoiko 11y agoI wonder if anyone who has worked on the project dared listing it on their résumé. I would :)
- aruggirello 11y agoOnly if it's printed on toilet paper :)
- panglott 11y agoIt needs a Kinect.
- aruggirello 11y agoThe more advanced edition will come with Oculus Rift VR.
- aruggirello 11y agoThe iLoo would take the meaning of zero-day exploits to a whole new level... BTW patch your iLoo regularly! Reinstalling really is an unpleasant job :)
- bunkydoo 11y agoForget Dr. Who's 'Tardis' - Call this the 'Turdis'