Is that worth 50 cents? I guess so...
Thu Nov 29, 12:32 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - First came SatNav for lost drivers. Now there's
"SatLav," a toilet-finding service to help people caught short in
central London.
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Thursday, Westminster City Council launched a new mobile phone text
message service that will guide Londoners and tourists to their
nearest public lavatory.
Anyone who sends the word "Toilet" to 80097 will receive a reply
giving details of their nearest public convenience.
Student Gail Knight, 26, came up with the idea for an innovation
competition run by the council.
"When I'm out with friends we're always ducking into McDonalds or
department stores to use their loos but we feel a bit bad about it,"
she said. "I thought a text service would be really useful for people
on the move."
The service is available across the Westminster, an area that includes
many of the capital's most popular sights, such as Big Ben, Trafalgar
Square and Buckingham Palace.
Unlike in-car devices that rely on satellites to pinpoint someone's
location, the SatLav uses mobile phone technology.
All that comes at a price, however. Rather than spending a penny,
people will be charged 25 pence ($0.52) per text.
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