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""It's not a joke," a Microsoft spokesperson assured AFP. But it
certainly sounds like one. According to Voila.fr, the software giant
is launching the I-Loo - a portable toilet with an adjustable plasma
screen, a wireless keyboard and an internet connection. It will, the
site says, consign the piles of newspapers traditionally found in the
corners of bathrooms to the bin.

"'The internet is so much a part of everyday life that offering people
the chance to surf in toilets is a natural step,' a marketing
director told AFP. 'I't's fascinating to think that the smallest room
could be an way in to the enormous virtual world.'

Outdoor summer festivals such as Glastonbury will probably be the
testing grounds for the invention. Whether the queues outside the
notoriously smelly Portaloos will grow any longer remains to be seen."

Thanx, Nora, for sending this!