Off Topic And Off Target

When one creates or invents something, one wants to consider ones options for copyright protection, patent protection, trademark protection or at the very least, attribution rights.

If one cannot be bothered, one at least wants to be sure that someone else does not take one's ideas and ingenuity etc, monetize it and take all the credit. There ought to be attribution.  

For example, as I understand Open AI, one of the original founders intended it to be free and for the benefit of all humanity, but other persons wanted to monetize it for their own profit. Humanity did not benefit as "openly" as originally intended, and as the name clearly implies. Not that a better urine bottle is any kind of comparison, of course.

That is why, today, I am blogging about my thoughts on how to improve urine collection bottles.

For the good of humanity, especially mankind, Urine bottles ought to be re-designed. Astronauts probably have superior urine collection mechanisms. Not that we can all pee like astronauts, but we might be inspired by the way their collection bags nestle snugly into their crotches.

1. No man (unless post penile surgery) needs such a large (2 1/2 ") opening to the bottle.

2. Few men can spread their thighs wide enough to fit the 3" width of the body of the bottle close to the crotch.

3. Uncomfortable men probably have very short penises.

4. Men without their eyeglasses or with poor vision cannot see the outline of the opening.  It ought not to be the same color as the rest of the transparent bottle. It ought to be target-colored.

5. Older men tend to have larger, lower-slung scrotums on which they often sit, and which are painfully squashed by a closely held, hard urine bottle.

The design of Y fronts etc is not conducive to pulling out a pain-shrivelled penis at the optimum level for seated or recumbent urination into a bottle. 

The current design is prone to back-flow, overflow, misalignment.  Which leads to hurried nurses thinking the patient is incontinent and their time is wasted on changing bedding, cleaning floors, and everything else when urine does not go where it is supposed to go.

It adds to the expense of laundry, additional soiled sheets, use of bed pads etc. Which is not environmentally-friendly.

Spilled urine also throws off the records that nurses purport to keep of a patient's urine output.

Spilled urine humiliates and adds to the patient's depression.... which is not the least of my concerns with the standard of care and the design of this medical accessory.

Therefore:

Urine bottles for men ought to have a much longer, narrower neck.

The body of the urine bottle ought to be longer and narrower and sloped to receive and hold more urine when held flat, without backflow.

The handle maybe ought to be on the long neck, not on the body.

The opening should have a brightly colored ring around it.

Possibly, the opening could be more ergonomically designed, spoon shaped with more receptacle/support under the penis and more opening above the penis.

All the best,

Rowena Cherry