Clean up with technology
thehindubusinessline.com     Jul 24, 2008          

K. Venugopal Clean-up drive: Sarah Brown (wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown), Maria Barroso (wife of the European Commission President, Jose Barroso), Kiyoko Fukuda (wife of Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda) and Lawreen Harper (wife of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper) pose at the international media centre with a clean diesel vehicle at the G-8 Summit. K. Venugopal Just about everything that you need to do can be done with a dollop of technology. At least that is what the Japanese seem to think. Take the hotel room in Sapporo, Japan, for instance. The toilet seat is special: it makes that daily job of cleaning up awfully easy. First, the difference is obvious as you sit down. Sensors activate the flush to cleanse the bowl and disinfect it for use. As Japan can get very cold in winter, the seat has been... [read full story]                    


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