Women's urinal six times quicker to use, creators say
A women's urinal has been created by two ex-University of Bristol students, which they claimed was six times quicker to use than a conventional loo.
Amber Probyn and Hazel McShane designed the hands-free Peequal because they were fed up with long queues for the ladies toilets at festivals.
"No funnels are involved and it's semi-private, you can't see anything from the waist down," said Ms McShane.
"In our breaks we had to choose between going to the loo or getting food, because the queues for the ladies were just insane," said Ms McShane, who studied physics with innovation.
"So for our masters project, we were asked to solve a real life problem and we knew straight away what we wanted to do."
They talked to more than 2,000 women in focus groups and pubs around Bristol, then came up with their "queue busting" urinal.
"It's actually an adaptation of a hole in the ground toilet but it's what we call the pedestal," said Ms McShane.
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