When you gotta go....

Omni Medical, Inc. has come up with a 21st-century solution that replaces "piddle packs" and painful waits with a system that pilots can use without unstrapping themselves from their seats. The system is called the Advanced Mission Extender Device (which sounds a bit to fancy for a urination device). It uses special underwear equipped with a hose linked to a pump the size of a paperback book that sucks the urine into a collection bag.

The old "piddle pack" is a pistol-shaped plastic container filled with chemicals that converts urine into Jello to be eaten tossed later. That is the current and much used standard pee pack.

The control units that contain the pumps cost about $2,000 each. Over their lifetime, the devices are designed to cost an average of $35 a flight.

Sounds like something I could use at my desk.

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