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Since number 1 is a catheter, I want to repeat a long time complaint. Why can't technology help urinals stay clean? There are puddles in literally every male bathroom. Some one please solve this.

Edit: At my age, the last sputters go in every which way. So missing is unavoidable and we need some kind of self cleaning floor.

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It is a user error not a technology problem :)

If you did want a technology solution I would suggest electrifying a zone area around the urinal - 5000V should get even the most haphazard user on the straight and narrow.

Except the stream is not continuous, as the the liquid speeds up it tends to separate into droplets.

I suggest you try urinating on an electric fence - I have seen it done and the result is both horrifying and very amusing.

An electric fence is much closer than the floor, the stream may not have broken yet. It does depend on the distance -- for example you could pee from a subway platform onto the third rail and live to tell the story.

I have a better solution: just don't drink. Ever.

Stimpy, don't whiz on the electric fence!

At 5kV, you're likely to get air dielectric breakdown between droplets (roughly 3MV/m dielectric breakdown over a few mm)

At least they didn't bury the lede.

People just need a reason to aim, not more technology. [1]

[1] http://images.dailykos.com/images/214735/story_image/Trump_U...

The urinals I see in Japan that go all the way down to the floor do a pretty excellent job at containing those puddles.

There is a full length urinal, I don't know why they aren't more widely used.

Cost.

Wet-mopping Roomba-type robots cleaning floors when there's no one in the room?

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