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Sanitary vision of the future
United Kingdom company Twyford's versatile interactive pan (VIP) is a concept design - not intended for mass production -which showcases the firm's expertise. The VIP "super-loo" combines ergonomics and technology to promote physical well-being and can be set -by voice-activated controls -into the correct position for the user. The super-loo can recognise if the user's voice is male or female to set its bowl in a sitting or standing position. It also remembers how tall regular users are to enable the seat to be set at the correct level for people and children of most heights. The flushing mechanism is operated by an infrared sensor and uses a vacuum system that reduces the volume of water necessary to an environment-friendly flush of two litres. An in-built technology can even analyse human waste to provide dietary advice for the user. This advice is linked to an Internet shopping facility which can e-mail your nearest supermarket so that your nutritional requirements can be brought straight to your door. A spokesman for Twyford said: "The VIP is just a concept 100, like a concept car . If it went into production it would be very expensive at around 5,000 pounds sterling." Nevertheless, the VIP is being seen as one of the most radical ideas yet for this essential household item and its revolutionary design looks set to inspire a Dew generation of toilets. In time, everyone could have a similar 100 in their own home. Bill Austin, Lord Mayor of Stoke-on- Trent in the English Midlands, and toilet manufacturers from Europe converged on the Gladstone Pottery Museum recently as Mark Pickering, managing director of Twyford Bathrooms, put the VIP on show. Described as having taken the toilet concept developed by Thomas Twyford 120 years ago into the realms of science fiction, the VIP will now form part of an exhibition at the museum, joining a collection of sanitaryware amassed by Twyford in the 1970s and donated to the museum last year. The Gladstone Pottery Museum is one of Stoke's leading heritage attractions where visitors can discover what it was like to live in a world without running water or sanitation. They can go right back to the invention of the toilet and discover how we came to have them in every home. The Twyford Collection is testament to the triumph of the Staffordshire sanitaryware industry and features some of the most important and ornate sanitaryware ever made. Joy McIntosh, Johnny Dobbyn or Neil Byrne, Camron Public Relations, 7 Floral Street, London, United Kingdom, WC2E 9DH. Telephone: -+44 207420 1700. Fax: -+44 2074972753. Twyford Design Centre, Lawton Road, Alsager, Stoke-on- Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom, ST7 2DF. Telephone: +44 1270 879777. Website: WWW.twyfordbathrooms.com London Press Service, PA NewsCentre, 292 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, United Kingdom, SWlV lAE. Visit our web site at: http://www.london.press.net By Heather Forse Published on 9th July, 2002
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A bathroom company has designed a super-toilet for the future that can respond to your voice and tell you about the state of your health.
