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A few years ago, Nathalie Des Isnards was attending a music festival with her husband David, and planning to watch her favourite group.
Before the show, they headed to the toilets. "I spent 30 minutes in the queue waiting to pee," she recalls. Much to her frustration, she missed the first part of the concert.
Meanwhile David took just "two minutes", and saw the whole show.
"I was upset. I told myself, 'We're in the 21st century, something should be done about that.'"
She set about creating a women's urinal. The simple seatless basin she devised is housed in a cubicle with roof and door, designed for faster use but also privacy. "I was not a designer. I was a user first," says the 46-year-old.
A different but important engineering challenge.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by choose another one on Friday March 13 2020, @03:53PM
Mirrors are usually above the washbasins which you need to (damn well should) access after using the crapper, so you end up with effectively two queues - one to wash, one to fix makeup, converging on the same set of basins. Now, sometimes you do need water and mirror at the same time, so you should still have mirrors over the basins, but yeah, put some makeup-mirror stations elsewhere, with no need for water, and you'd fix a lot of the problem. Also, (venturing onto dodgy ground) some cubicles without need of plumbing of any sort where girls can just go for a "girly chat" might help...