If you get your filthy lucre from an ATM, you may...  ...e as dirty—and carry the same germs—as public toilets : Experts took swabs from the numeric key pads on...  ...ook similar swabs from the seats of nearby public toilets and compared the bacteria under microscopes in a...  ...tion between heavily-used...

Sure, an ordinary toilet seat can withstand most, uh, loads. But if you need a toilet seat that can really take punishment without breaking, try this one made out of 550,000 psi tensile carbon fiber. Link via Jal...

This toilet by INAX USA has everything going for it. The lid lifts as you approach it. There's a built-in air deodorizer, seat warmer, light, and stereo. It flushes automatically. Two self-cleaning nozzles spray wate...

According to Vladimir Moksunov, the leader of Russia's toilet manufacturing association, his nation had the best public restrooms in the world until the Communist Revolution of 1917. Now it's time for Russia to return t...

Just in case they were thinking of doing otherwise...  ...na warn people that they shouldn't drink from the toilets and urinals: A few employees have been crackin...

Luxury home furnishings designer Windisch Nameek made a toilet brush and holder that's plated with 24-carat gold. The vendor suggests that the advantage to gold is that it won't pit, tarnish, or corrode. So it's a...

Ed Del Grande, a plumber, has an advice column in...  ...ttle Times. He responded to one query about home toilets by describing how the color of a toilet may indic...

A man in Jiangsu Province, China, got stuck in a toilet when he dropped his phone inside and tried to get it back: When rescue workers arrived on the scene in Jiangsu province in eastern China, they found the man crou...

I ask because it's for sale on eBay. The toilet was removed from the late author's New Hampshire home by the new owners in the 1980s. It hasn't been cleaned yet, so it's super-authentic. You can bid for it or buy...

Cartoonists have a crazy streak. They can’t he...  ...conceived.  For instance, I have invented silly toilets solely to keep myself amused. I have also spent t...  ...laced. Is it merely for reasons of tradition that toilets are consigned to bathrooms? Could toilets be place...