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Go With the Flow?

The more popular yoga becomes, the more you see people using it in their advertising campaigns to sell products. I've recently seen yoga on commercials for cat food, paint, computers, and clothes. The yoga lifestyle concept (and the always popular yama ahimsa, non-harming) has been used to market eco-friendly products before, but I have to say I never imagined someone would credit yogic principles for inspiring the design of something like this:

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All I have to say is . . .

Really? A translucent, blue toilet that flushes by re-using water from a sink was somehow based on yogic principles?


Posted by Erica Rodefer on April 30, 2009 05:48 PM |

Comments

Where does the recycled tissue go?

Posted by: scott | May 1, 2009 03:51 PM

Hmm...So is this a squat toilet? Perhaps the design brief was 'create a toilet on which only yoga practitioners can 'sit'"! Apparently using a squat toilet is actually better for your colon though, so this really could be a yoga inspired crapper!

Posted by: Joseph C Lawrence | May 3, 2009 09:26 AM

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