One of the darker moments of my parenting career saw me holding a terrified three-year-old on a toilet that repeatedly automatically flushed at a volume that is only appropriate for the whooshing ...

When it comes to toilet etiquette, do you put the lid down before you flush or leave it up? If you said leave it up, the results of a new study by researchers at the Asan Medical Center in South Korea ...

“It is estimated that toilets are by far the main source of water use in the home, accounting for almost 30 percent of residential indoor water use,” states the Virginia Cooperative Extension. In an ...

Meghan Walbert is Lifehacker's Managing Editor. She has a degree in journalism and has worked at Lifehacker as a writer and editor since 2018, covering parenting, foster care, online child safety, and ...

Being at CES all week, I've been surrounded by sensor based everything in the bathroom, sensors on the toilets, urinals, sinks, soap, hand dryers, paper towels, everything, and its become kind of nice ...

As the father of a 2-year-old girl, I disdain automatic-flushing toilets. They are Enemy No. 1 for anyone who's trying to successfully potty train a tiny person. They often flush at all the wrong ...

You might notice I’m particularly obsessed with toilets these past two months. Being cooped up in the house makes the necessaries in the home all the more important. Over the years, there has been an ...

Despite being introduced for hygiene and ease, automatic toilets can be extremely frustrating, either flushing too soon or not at all. We found out why bathroom sensors malfunction so often and a few ...

The City of Brussels has installed 3 new self-cleansing toilets at locations in the city centre and in the European Quarter. The cubicles have an automatic flushing system and a self-cleaning ...

Despite businesses reopening and states relaxing their stay at home restrictions, the threat of COVID-19 still looms large. The biggest risk comes from close person-to-person contact, since the ...