Design revealed for space toilet with a view | News

(CNN) — A restroom with an out-of-this-world view could be the surprise highlight for travelers adventuring with space tourism start-up Space Perspective.

The Florida-based company plans to take travelers some 100,000 feet to the edge of space via a pressurized capsule suspended from a high-tech balloon.

As trips are set to last around six hours, naturally the capsule requires an onboard bathroom. When considering what that might look like, Space Perspective founder and co-CEO Jane Poynter and her team settled on what the British-born Poynter dubs a “loo with a view.”

“Why not have a loo with a view?” Poynter

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‘Digital Natives’ Seen Impacting Market

HACKETTSTOWN, NJ — Advances in home technology are “changing the way designers think” about kitchen and bathroom design and the expectations of their client base, with a new generation of “digital natives” leading a growing charge toward expanded technology usage.

That’s the key conclusion of a major new market analysis by the National Kitchen & Bath Association, whose “Kitchen Tech & Millennials Report” found that millennials – the cohort of homeowners ranging from 26 to 41 years of age – represent an increasing percentage of the remodeling and homebuying client base “who understand how to use technology to make

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