The world's first pee-powered phone!

This article is so awesome, I'll just give you some quotes:

Mobile phone owners could soon be able to give their batteries a boost with their own urine. 

British scientists at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory have developed a way of using urine as a power source to generate electricity and claim to have created the world's first microbial fuel cells (MFC) powered mobile phone. 

While many people might turn their noses up at the energy source, the researchers said that it is the 'ultimate waste product' and does not rely on the erratic nature of the wind or the sun... 

Dr Ioannis Ieropoulos, an expert at harnessing power from unusual sources using microbial fuel cells at the University of West England, Bristol, which was also involved in the research, said the urine-powered phone is a 'world first'. 

"No-one has harnessed power from urine so it’s an exciting discovery."

YES! IT IS VERY EXCITING!

Robot Butts test cell phones?

Apparently, Samsung takes robots, puts jean shorts (or "jorts") on them, and then has them sit on phones. This is to test whether their cellphones can survive a robot-jorts-butt attack, of course!

The action picks up at about 1:20.

Butt dialing, explained.

Via!

Stop wiping your bum with your cell phone!

By Wonderlane

Sheesh, I just read an article that says many cell phones are covered in poop germs. 

In the study, one-in-six phones had E. coli smeared on them. That’s one of the worst butt germs there is…it could KILL you!

And as far as I can see, there’s only one way so much voodoo butter could have gotten there: People are wiping themselves with their cell phones.

Okay, there IS one other possibility: If people didn’t wash their hands after busting grumpies, and then they talked on their phones, that could do it. But surely every single person in the world uses soap and water after wiping the whale eye, right? Right?*

*Wrong.

Nooooooo!

Not again.

Photo by jurvetson.

Please: Don't Talk on the Phone While Pooping!

Before I explain that title, first I have to say that pink skulls are for girls. Don't believe me? Just look!

See, it says so right on the package!

I saw the pink skull at the finest toy story in Portland, Finnegan's Toys & Gifts. While there, I also spotted some bandages in the shapes of pickles and toast. They're not exactly disgusting...but they ARE cool!

But I know what you're here for, so here's a gross story. From Finnegan's, I went down to Powell's Books. After seeing if they had a copy of The Big Book of Gross Stuff (they did!), I went into a bathroom and stepped up to a urinal.

"Dude, what's going on?" said a deep voice.

Surprised, I looked around.

"I'm at Powell's right now," the voice continued. "Just looking at books and stuff."

Looking left, I located the source of the voice. It was some guy sitting in a stall, pooping, and talking on the phone! This is disgusting for a number of reasons. First, poop germs were probably landing on his phone even as he spoke.

And I also felt sorry for the person on the other end of the conversation. Who wants to TALK to some applehead when he's pooping?

Not me. I also don't want to LISTEN to it, so I washed my hands and got out of there! The only reason to stick around would have been in the hope that he'd drop his cellphone into the toilet. But what are the odds of THAT happening?

Take the Plunge!

Nearly a million cell phones get dropped into toilets every year. And this man's phone was one of them!

What makes our gentleman unusual is that he got his arm stuck in the toilet trying to get the phone back! Emergency crews were called. Men with jackhammers removed the toilet. (And reporters with cameras removed the man's dignity.)

This story got a lot of coverage...like this:

Are You Wiping Your Bum with Your Cell Phone?

I suppose you don't ACTUALLY reach for an iPhone when you're done on the toilet, but you might as well. Look at this headline!

Apparently, about one in four cell phones has "high or warning levels" of bacteria and other germs. I guess this sort of makes sense. People are constantly handling their cell phones, but how often do they clean them off?

Probably as many times as they wipe their bums with them. (Which is never!)

Story here.