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New York City’s New High-Tech Toilets Will Kick You Out After 10 Minutes. Seriously.

NYC is rolling out 17 high-tech public toilets with automated warnings and doors that open if you overstay your bathroom break.

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For as fun as it can be navigating New York City’s streets, it’s long had one major problem: not enough public toilets. The city aims to fix that by installing 17 technologically advanced public restrooms with a strict 10-minute time limit, ensuring no one takes up a stall for too long.

In a city with 8.5 million people and only about 1,000 public restrooms, finding a place to dump out the effects of that gigantic iced coffee........

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