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  • Yep, Lets Get Our Shit Together Brought to you by a billionaire

  • This is great and overdue!

    For everybody who is really interested in a sustainable life, I also recommend to read about the "cradle-to-cradle" model

    > wikipedia > "Cradle-to-cradle"

  • I don't want to drink poop water

  • I think all the money the philanthropists have pledged to "donate" should go to honest americans who make under 20k dollars who "pledge" to never commit a crime, take a lie detector test to prove it, take drug tests periodically, promise to do random acts of kindness for complete strangers and make this world a better place. every billionaire shud give away most of their money 2 these people as well as the government who's wasting money on illegals and wars and make this country a better place.

  • Wouldn't this mean reinventing the sewage system..? Not the toilet itself..

  • If u really want to help people, its my little effort...buy phones and movies at ezeemax.com and contribute for helping the cancer patients. they will thank you forever...you may die but not your goodness do it...for god's sake.they need it more than you...remember you can make a difference

  • that shit cray

  • what is the name of this type of video? (with this type of animation)

  • This is so inspirational! I'm going to go take a shit right now.

  • Let's get our $#!% together and do it!

  • who gonna drink fresh water extracted from pooh? or is it just for irrigation? why call it 'fresh water'. non-potable would be more accurate!

  • *Running on Windows 8

  • this is probably the most serious and professional way this issue could have been addressed. and it is AWESOME XD

  • help the homeless kids in the usa first.

  • Remember the old motto from Wastewater Treatment Operations, your shit is our bread and butter.

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  • Loveable Loo is a simple system that is already invented. It is cheap and could be in every hut with a community compost. Facebook: Humanure. Why reinvent?

    You dont even need the frame if all you can get is the 5 gallon bucket with a lid.

  • Loveable Loo is a simple system that is already invented. It is cheap and could be in every hut with a community compost. Facebook: Humanure. Why reinvent?

  • squat, composting toilets. Don't bugger up natural posture!

  • i cannot believe they beeped out every word shit in the commercial, what's the point?

  • Holy shit.

  • Best ad ever!

  • Compost Sanitation - google it. It's a biological solution, not a technological one. We don't needs to reinvent the toilet as a device, we need to reinvent our attitude towards organic materials, and what we do with them after we discard them. Toilet materials are very recyclable.

  • I wonder whether the Gates have read The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins?

  • I'm pretty sure the composting toilet has already been invented.

  • 1:07 love that part

  • so good that the gates foundation sponsors barca and they used KaKa as a word for shit. i know it is a real word, but it looks like theyve put the accents in the word as well

  • @fhhuckyou Yes, because soap, plastic, and wash cloths are all readily accessible in third world countries in places like Africa.

  • Amazing video!

  • It's amazing how Gates can think in a way no one else can. Of course he actually has the money to make this possible which does help, but seriously if he pulls this off he will revolutionize the world over......again.

  • :-) never mind me, im on my period man flu season! ...the idea is good, but hey... im not drinking other people poo water thanks, its for 3rd world i know and it is good but i can see quickly the government will jump on it and make money out of it they always do.....

  • hahah

    

  • Time to defecate glad it's going for a good cause.

  • Is it me or this video is kind of disturbing?

  • @LeonPetroff agreed

  • @LeonPetroff It's just you.

  • My Syllogism:

    (If) Bill Gates made Windows and other stuff.

    (And) Things made by Bill Gates suck.

    (Therefore) The "Toilette of the future" will suck.

    Put UAC on this toilette, slow loading time, shitty design (LULZ) and other crappy things that make windows suck ballz so bad.

  • @sharx013 well said

  • Whatever gets him out his school reform phase (aka, making things worse for our public schools), I'm a fan of. It seems like Bill does good work with health related issues. Good luck.

  • congratulations to the team of advertising & marketing audiovisual who designed this teaser. so simple but it is something you can not stop looking.

  • Dry toilets aren't new. Just disperse coal and chalk over the poo and you get humus after some weeks. The next invention would be the wheel, wood hydrolyses transmutation or something else of long forgotten knowledge. Really poor.

  • "...which requires massive amounts of sewer infrastructure, and immense amounts of water; two things increasingly hard to come by" - sewer infrastructure, a very scarce resource on planet earth!

  • « Turn crap into valuable ressources. » - That's a Bill Gates philosophy

  • It's funny that they talk about developing countries and in France, not only do we constantly have to watch where we walk because there's dog poop on the sidewalks, but people urinate and poop in parks and alleys all the time.

    When they said France had High Culture, I'm not sure what they meant...

  • I've used a compost toilet before. Basically separate the solids from the liquid.

  • If you just want to post useless cynical comments about Microsoft please do it elsewhere. This is important shit.

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  • @kragle2008 Poor you... If nothing else...Bill Gates has nothing in common with microsoft..only history... Get some info!! ;)

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  • @kragle2008 now that's what I call a cynic.

  • don't post good ideas here, they're just gonna make millions of dollars with it

  • Crap everywhere

  • This sounds like a pretty crappy situation.

  • umm.... errrmm.... huh?

  • I love it.

  • 13 people shat their pants...

  • now doodoo can be remade into food with the toilet of the future

  • From professionals in the field of selling shit for money...

  • good way forward, but LMAO @ the video itself

    

  • FTW!?

  • i just cant take that serious

  • Are you sure you want to shit? (Ok/Cancel)

  • Spending $50 billion is no easy task, takes some ingenuity and imagination.

  • How about we get them some FOOD first.

  • @Shatteredcraft Sanitation is, in fact, more important than food here. I'm sure you know the four basic human needs are air, water, food, and shelter, in that order. With poor sanitation, waste materials are actually getting into and severely polluting people's water supplies, to the point where massive disease outbreaks like cholera are spreading through the water supply. Unlike food, water is far too heavy and used too much to be sustainably trucked in.

  • Swearing chicks are so hot...

  • soo.... thats it? No idea's, no scientific mumbojumbo? Just a company name???

  • They poop in their water supply because there's no where else to poop! They poop in the river because it's better than pooping on immobile piles of poop.

  • Well, you guys are right, but theres still alot of third world idiots. I dont care how poor you are, pooping in your water supply defies all basic instinct and common sense.

  • @LoneSeraph2100 hahaha

  • It's great to see Bill Gates using his influence to make a big difference in the world.

  • @LoneSeraph2100 I would add that, back then, people were responding to an aesthetic distaste for poo, without any knowledge of the harmful bacteriological qualities. Similarly, many of the people whom this video is speaking about live in cultures where pooping still happens openly because it's not considered a shameful thing; on the other hand, shame was what first taught us to poop in flush toilets. The understanding that mismanaged poo could kill us came later.

  • Not bad *meme*

  • youtube does not know count, it pass directly from 1:29 to1:31, without count the 30

  • EVEN BILL GATES WATCHED THIS VIDEO

    :O

    w00w ^^

  • Dont mean to sound like a dick, but why are we bothering with this tech? Im starting to be reminded of the animal who cant survive because it was never in the wild...

    We keep making all this stuff, people are never gonna learn. Hell, the ancients who lived in those places had plumbing. It was made of sticks and stones, but thats still a workin toilet. And now they cant do anything better than shittin in a river?

  • @LoneSeraph2100 Ancient cities that had plumbing were advanced for their time. What you are saying is basically is if somewhere didn't have a tv, why are they bothering to watch crappy performance put on by the locals. They have no choice, there is no option, they can't get electricity, they can't afford the tv etc.

    How can you possibly think that this is bad. Also, it is pretty hard to do certain things when water is short and food is scarce and disease is all around.

  • @LoneSeraph2100 They don't have the materials or the tools to do something like that. Also, like it said in the video, it needs water, a lot of it. And the ancients did that too, the Romans had the wealth to build aquaducts to carry water to cities, but these people don't have that. What water they do have is dirty and unsanitary, and you're saying they should just do what they ancients did? It's not possible without a lot of funding.

  • @LoneSeraph2100 I don't believe you are a dick but you have to think more about it. It is true that sicknesses like diarrhea (sorry if I have spelling/ortographic mistakes) kills an amazing amout of people (not only kids) a year, and it is because people of very low resourses don't have a proper place to do their necessities, and diarrhea can easily be passed to a person from a sick person's poo to another, specially from people who doesn't have a healthy inmune system as they eat what they can.

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  • @LoneSeraph2100 So lets say they manage to get the plumbing going in Africa. Where is the water going to come from? Many of those places have been in years-long droughts. Ancient civilizations that had plumbing were in the fertile crescent, not Africa. Gates is trying to develop tech that solves the lack of water issue for less than 5 cents a day. It would cost more than that to pump in water, treat it, and maintain plumbing.

  • @LoneSeraph2100 Plumbing is great, but you pump in all that water to create a flushing toilet and then don't have anywhere to treat the water.. what do you expect to do with it? That's probably why the life expectancies in ancient civilizations were barely over 30 years.

  • Toilets do need upgrading with all the new science and technology we have now.

    I want butt cleaning toilets in every home that auto sanitize the seat.

  • Check this video to see how he wants to reduce world CO2 levels jSqcRMVbtpo by reducing population through the vaccines that he loves so much.

    If overpopulation is such a big issue for him then he should lead by example and kill himself, and anyone else that believes in that theory can follow him and the rest of us will live much happier from then on.

    He produces as much CO2 as thousands of poor people so his death would be very valuable to his cause.

  • Gates is going after the toilet manufacturing industry now?  Why would he do that? They've been putting up with his sh*t for years!

  • This sounds like a load of shit.

  • no silly, it's toilet. why call it a windows?

    it's gonna called TOILET-DOS

  • This is a great idea! I hope it can be developed!

  • The Windows 9 comment is COMMENT-OF-THE-YEAR!!!!!!

  • sounds like a lot of bullSHIT!

  • Fantastic, the video asked the question WHY (we should reinvent) but not even a hint about the HOW part

  • @sachinabey maybe because it's a video promoting a $47 mln dollar grant to develop it - genius!

  • Would be nice if they let more people than the typical elite help on this ... but again they choose Stanford and other schools full of rich kids trying to make something for the poor. Good luck!

  • @lirapoe Gates trying to get elite Industrial Engineers to develop a septic safe toilet for the 3rd world over people from poor agrarian people...the nerve!

  • Is this a joke?

  • @doomtomb3 No, the gates foundation is a legitamate organization, they wouldn't play around with someone as drastic as this. Bill Gates, owner of Microsoft? Inventor of the Windows Operating system, that ring a bell?

  • @iGarthi Ahem, I know who Bill Gates is and I know what the organization is.

  • how about turning shit into .. happiness ?

  • Turn cr*p into valuable resources like fresh water

  • this is the crappiest video I've ever seen!

  • Well Bill. Can you show us on youtube that you will be willing to eat your own shit on youtube? Your rich right?

  • "let's get our shit together and do it"

  • 10 ppl dont like shits :)

  • Just another device in the "sympathy arsenal" to disguise the real agenda:

    Mr Gates says it himself in his own words

    "...with vaccines, we can reduce world population by 10-15%..."

    ..yes there is much more.. google it, and inform urself, i was duped 4 a while too, then i realised..wait, ppl in africa dont need leftover swine flu vaccines, as if it was a good deed?? NO.. its a crime against humanity ! So r Monsantos GM crops(bioengineered to sterilize the populace)!! READ! the UN is also in on it

  • Gates Foundation, please take a look at JETS vacuum toilets used in ships worldwide. Immense amounts of water is saved, and it is easier to maintain, and harder to clog, than the regular flush system.

  • Western Civilization ftw.

  • i'm sorry but this is disgusting i checked the date i thought it was made for April fools lol

  • @l0oAzizo0l in the 3rd world they shit in the same rivers that they get food from. This is a 47 mln dollar competition to create a sanitary system to prevent that.

  • where is the HD version in 2011 ? :)

  • It's interesting that you chose to for some reason bleep out/censor "shit", while leaving the other "crappy" words in.

  • YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES PLEASE DO

  • soylent green is people

    its people's shit

  • I have had some ideas for improving 1st world toilets for many years. One involves removing odor and germs, the other involves enabling us to squat, which is a far healthier way to poop.

  • Number Two: Windows

  • @DavidKingNT hater's gona hate

    

  • If a kid in India can make solar panels out of human hair (cheap) and Dean Kamen can make a cheap water filtration system (he's got it planned), I'd imagine it would be a matter of distribution to a central point for processing.

  • It'd be nicer if we were shown a plan where we can start. "LET'S DO THIS!!" doesn't constitute anything.

  • @Cleuq yes it does. a problem has been identified and made known. the b&mg foundation is donating $42 million for research so smart peoples can rethink toilet design for the reasons stated in the video. the smart peoples are doing it. "LET'S DO THIS" constitutes motivation, initiate, drive, and passion, all of which are necessary to solve today's major problems.

  • @Cleuq except its a 42-47 mln dollar competition to create a solution to the problem. "LETS DO THIS!!" is the purpose of the video.

  • Excellent Vid! And so true! The way we waste so much in disposing of our waste really stinks! We must learn to squeeze as much out of our resources as possible, even if it cramps our style! I hope to live to see the day when this serious problem is wiped clean from our 'to doo-doo' list. Hey, we could sponsor a post season college football classic: The Tidy Bowl!

  • bill gates :$

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  • Impressive, awesome. A very good idea. Bill is a very very good man.

  • The only people who have enough money to afford a toilet that can turn your shit into fuel or clean water are...Bill & Melinda Gates.

    The cost to produce such a toilet is too high, and thus it hasn't been produced.

  • let's get our $#%@ togather and do it

    Ewwww disgusting!

  • Great video/animation.

    8 people like wasting their poop.

  • is fake? :S

  • SO LETS GET OUR SHIT TOGETHER WTF LOL!!!!!!! 1:22

  • @Danc3R4ve

    and the final product name will be: Windows 9

  • @gr11977

    they haven't released windows 8 yet. So you and 14 other people are fucking retarded. all 15 of you should go buy the new mac mini and then kill yourselves.

  • @mmojica87 thumbed up!

  • you could even turn that @#$& into Burgers.

    Check it out, and search for "turd burger". Really they can do it!

  • great change........................­...

  • This video is excellent. I love how they embrace the topic.

  • Eugenics

  • This shit is serious. Awesome video!

  • ok, im switching to wine then

  • you know that the world has more than 2.6 billions people right? in 1999 it has reached 6 billion already.. you're welcome

  • @danielalthoff *FACEPALM*

  • @danielalthoff are you special needs

  • Shit just got serious !

  • I think I've reinvented the toilet in my pants from watching this.

  • Who made it?

  • @brunofujii Loaded Pictures.

  • fantastic but im not drinking that water

  • I think this is good idea but not great ! Call me back when toilet can turn our shit into beef and our urine into white wine !

  • Let's get our shit together.

  • nobody poops in the river...

  • So....where is this new toilet?

  • I lol'd at poop and doodoo...#2 is what sent me over the edge.

  • @GequalsZ Then I saw kaka, crap, ans shit.

  • Clivus Multrum INC.

  • "lets get our shit together and do it" Rofl!!!!!!!!

  • Uhhhhhhh, 96% of the world is water.

  • @grant19933 Uhhh try again. Water covers 70% of the surface of the earth but only 2.75% is freshwater (of which 2.05% is frozen in glaciers, leaving 0.70% in usable form).

    Not to mention that the water "stocks" have been declining in many parts of the world, most notably south Asia.

  • @yir1988 It's beyond your control.

  • I thought it was an ad for Vista at first.

  • LETS GET OUR SHIT TOGETHER PEOPLE!

  • I thought it was a joke first.

  • If we don't invent a new toilet, we'll be in a pile of shit

  • shit!

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  • It sounds silly but this is a crucial issue. In the western world over 50% of your water usage can be from flushing the toilet alone.

  • @rorkimaru Then you should get a new toilet (1gal/flush)

  • @decibel333 General statistic not personal detail ;)

  • @rorkimaru An AWWA study published in 1999 called Residential End Uses of Water puts toilet water consumption at about 27% of indoor use (per capita)... the study included 1,188 homes located in 14 cities in the US and Canada over 2 years

  • let's get our shit together and do it. now that's what i'm talkin' 'bout.

  • how about starting with the whole wiping situation?