Toepner: Never open a bathroom door with your hand again
Will Brinson
Well, you’ll likely have to open bathroom doors with your hands at some point in your life. Actually, probably many times, but the Toepner, if it ever gets embraced by America (and other parts of the world), could be a gamechanger.
You see, the Toepner does exactly what you think it would. It allows you to open the door to a bathroom with your toe.
This is wonderful, frankly, and should be on every single bathroom door in the world. I say this not as 18-year-old me who didn’t care what he put his hands on. No, I say this as suddenly anal-retentive 29-year-old me who gets a little creeped out by how dirty public bathrooms are, and who may or may not wash his hands before he pees at the bowling alley.
What? Don’t judge. Jerks.
Anyway, as my bossman said, this is perhaps the most logical innovation in the history of the world.
It’s also perhaps the slowest-to-market invention ever as well … what the hell’s taken so long to get things to the point where we don’t all have to tuck our hands in our sleeves to avoid the germs that are built up on the bathroom doors of bowling alleys and highway gas stations.
There’s one problem, of course. It’s $50. And it’s really only a hook. Although, if we can get the government to keep from shutting down in the next couple of days, they’d probably be foolish enough to cough up what’s needed in order to put these across the country.
Yes, a Foot-Operated Bathroom Door – [Geekologie]
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