Men. We shave, we make a mess and while we have the intentions of cleaning up after ourselves we never quite meet the expectations of our bathroom sharing counterpart. Roll in beard trimming into the mix and we’re talking facial hair armageddon. Unless of course your sporting the Philips Norelco Vacuum Beard Trimmer.

As the name suggests this handy, battery powered trimmer has a built-in vacuum cleaner, which sucks up stubble in the handle. Odds are it won’t get everything that falls off your face, but it should mean the difference between a couch and a bed, if you catch our drift.

That said, you can adjust the trimmer ranging from a length of 1 millimeter to 18 millimeters, with a total of 18 settings that can be adjusted using a simple and easy, no look scroll wheel. They even say the comb is specially shaped to gently glide the blades around the contours of your face, so you can achieve the same even cut every time.

An 8 hour charge gets you 50 minutes of continuous use. It may not seem like a lot, but that should be good for 10-15 uses depending how expeditious you are about your trimming. Another plus? The blades will stay indefinitely sharp and need no oiling.

You can grab the Philips Norelco Qt4050 Vacuum Beard from Amazon for $39.99.

The Tube Squeezing Toothbrush appears to be a concept only, but based on this picture we know that at the very least a prototype exists.

Got a toosh that needs some serious pampering?  Than look no further than Kohlers Numi, an ultra lux toilet that costs $6,400.  The lid stays closed and opens automatically when it’s time for you to take your turn on the throne of all thrones.

The included touchscreen remote allows you to turn on music, set the flush cycle, turn up the seats heat and activate the bidet attachment.  You can also depend on the toilet to suss out a few things, such as how much power to exert when flushing your excrement depending on how long you’ve been sitting.  And then let’s not forget that it uses less water and is quieter than the average toilet.  

But the question is can they do anything about the noxious smell and noises that come not from the toilet but its user?

Word is that it will launch later this month.

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We’re not sure what to make of the Shaving Helmet.  It incorporates 4 blades that travel on rails inside the helmet.  Two servos, or motors, power the process while a built-in shaving cream dispenser distributes lube over your dome to protect from nicks and scratches.  There is a video that explains and conveys it all.

Call us skeptical, but something seems a bit fishy here.  It takes just 20 seconds and the guy who is getting his noggin shaved isn’t on camera for the entire time.  When he takes the helmet off he has gone from a few days of growth to a chrome dome in ONE pass – no nicks, scratches or imperfections.  In theory the design calls for the razors to face one direction, which means they can’t travel back and forth as the inventor suggests.

What do you think?  Too good to be true?

You might wanna take a second to compose yourself and block out any idea that this device is intended for sprinkling soap shavings over your salad or pasta dish.  In fact, the designer views this conceptual product from an eco friendly perspective and hence the inspiration for the design.

You see, liquid soap requires much more storage space and thus requires a larger infrastructure for transporting the product to the consumer.  Not to mention the oil implications of liquid soap, which makes it much less Eco friendly.

The “Soap Flakes”, as it’s been dubbed, shaves small flakes of soap from the bar directly into your hand for easy lathering, hopefully comparable to that of liquid soap.

There are two version: one that adheres to the wall for hand washing and one that can be held directly in the hand like a pepper mill grinder. While the latter is much more self explanatory in operation, the other is not.  As you place your hand under the dispenser, much like a soap dispenser in a public restroom, you push the lever which activates the grinder.

The design is a little out there, but we’d love to see a version that allows you to combine your used small bars of soap – the ones that are almost paper thin – such that you can draw out every last shred of cleansing power.

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I’m not sure what to think of this urinal/sink hybrid concept, from Yeongwoo Kim. As you can see from the picture above, it lets you both use the bathroom and use a sink in the same receptacle. The sink water also is used to clean the urinal bowl. Sure, there’s the immediate gross-out factor, but then you start thinking about how it will save space and recycle water, too. And there would be no excuse for not washing your hands. It won a design award

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Waterproof radios for the shower are pretty old news, but this one, the Shower Tap Radio, is oddly attractive since it’s shaped like an old school tap.  It runs off 2 AA batteries and sticks to the wall using a suction cup.  To turn it on you just rotate the ‘tap’ and presto, you’ve fired up your favorite FM (or AM) tunes in the same way you turn on your shower.

Total novelty?  You bet ya.

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From toenails to tampons to q-tips and band-aids, the toilet can often times be more than your average turd guzzler.  The Johnny Jolter Power Plunger helps to remove those unsightly unflushables by applying up to 25 pounds of water pressure where it’s most needed.

Retailing for $30, the Johnny Jolter Power Plunger forces the water through the “hole” and restores flow.  Boasting ergonomics for ease and comfort, this may be an essential item to have around “just in case”.  I can see the YouTube water fight right now.

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OK, I’m gonna come clean (pun fully intended): we’ve seen our fair share of color changing showerheads, faucets and light bulbs. But none have had, at least according to my memory, 3 different colors and a remote control.  Feeling some passion?  Flip on the red.  Or perhaps you’ve got the blues or feeling envious of someone?  No prob. you’ve got your blue and green hue for that.  The best part is that it sells from Chinavasion for $13.

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Anybody sharing a toilet with one or more persons knows that pain of stumbling through the mists of someone else’s freshly created stank.  To combat that heavy air is the Automatic Deodorizing Toilet Seat.  $129 may seem like a lot to spend on an item like this but your nasal cavity would be quite relieved.

On the other hand, there would be less to talk and laugh about.

This is the toilet seat that immediately suppresses bathroom odors by deodorizing the ambient air. As you sit on the seat, a whisper-quiet fan passes air through a replaceable carbon filter that absorbs odors, and is then freshened with one of two included fragrance modules, infused with pleasing, natural extracts, including Jasmine/Lavender and Citrus/Eucalyptus. The carbon filter deodorizes for six months and the fragrance module freshens for one month.

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For everyone out there who’s sick of their pets (and occasionally those wacky drunken relatives) using their toilet as a free drinking fountain, take note, because the gadget of your dreams has emerged.

It’s called the Drink No More, and it’s implanted on the underside of the toilet lid.  Once something gets too close to it, the device starts beeping and flashing, alerting you to a presence near your toilet.  From there, you can figure if it’s Uncle Roy off to the commode, or Rover going for a quick drink.

Basically, it’s a driveway alarm that you fasten to the underside of your toilet lid.  And at $24.99 per unit, it’s really not a terrible buy if you have pets in their houses that desperately need to be protected from the horrors of toilet bowl water.

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My girlfriend has a penchant for smearing toothpaste all over the cap and leaving it long enough to form a massive glob that eventually makes its way across my counter.  The Touch N Brush Toothpaste dispenser uses vacuum technology to squeeze every last drop of toothpaste out of the tube and delivers the perfect amount of paste with a simple touch.  To sweeten the deal they’re including an electric tooth brush and it costs just $19.98.  Consider me signed up.

[via RGS]

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Growing up and sharing a bathroom with my sister was a funny experience.  Why so you ask?  On more than one occasion I forgot to lower the seat, or in her case she forgot to lower the seat and fell in.  The conceptual Toilet Pages wouldn’t necessarily solve the aforementioned problem, but at least it would dedicate separate seats to each family member and make someone like me more cognizant of lowering the seat or at least switching seats.

[via Freshome]

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I don’t know how much I believe in the claims of iHouse’s SmartFaucet, but if they’re true then we might just be looking at the most technologically advanced faucet on the market.  In the past we’ve seen faucets with LCD touchscreens, user defined presets and LED lights that indicate water temperature.  The SmartFaucet brings those three technologies together and adds a fourth component to achieve that all important wow factor: facial recognition technology.  So instead of manually selecting your user preset the SmartFaucet recognizes you and automatically implements your desired temperature and water flow.  And while you scrub your pearly whites you can access your email, calendar and other Web based apps right from the built-in touchscreen LCD.

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Laugh all you want, but the Urilift Pop Up Pisser is no joke.  It’s marketed as a urinal for, well, I’m gonna say night time peeing, when the sight of a 3 urinal get up in the middle of the street is less of an eye sore.  It’s also ideal during outdoor conventions or markets when foot traffic is increased.  Just don’t get stuck in side when this piss pot recedes back into its dark and dank hole.  Apparently, each Uriloft costs $70,000, but that hasn’t stopped a few European cities from installing them.

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Water and technology have their place with one and other, but often they go together like tuna and peanut butter.  What exactly do I mean?  Get your tech wet and usually it’s fried.  The Cromobox LED shower door however, is the perfect combination of bathtub fun and LED lighting.  The glass doors are embedded with LEDs and can be adjusted to reflect your mood or setting.  Flip on the Barry White and go Red for that romantic scene or perhaps cool down with a Blue hue.

I’m not sure if they’ll ever officially come to market, but I’m sure those residing in the Hollywood Hills would be all over these things.

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