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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @05:17AM
Most of the ones I've seen use the "skiing position." First you put your feet roughly in front of the urinal facing away from it. Then you bend your knees and rotate your hips and sick your rear out backwards until your elbows touch your knees while using your ankles to maintain balance. From the side, it sort of looks like a pictograph of someone skiing. It isn't uncomfortable and you don't get everywhere. There are other ones too, but they feel awkward because you basically have to completely drop your pants or hike your dress/skirt up in order to straddle them properly. Those are much harder to stay in position or clean yourself with.