Bill Gates and Samsung develop toilet that combusts waste "into ashes"
Hardly invented to be a novelty, the idea that kicked it off was for underdeveloped counties with unsanitary conditions......Cost is still a problem for that use.....other models deal with the piss problem and some turn it into fertilizer...
The flush toilet hasn't changed much since it was invented in 1596 by Sir John Harington," said the foundation in a statement.
"There have been other advancements – waste treatment plants and underground sewers – but these complicated, expensive, and hard-to-manage technologies don't do much good in developing countries where 950 million people still have to defecate outdoors."