I love touchless bathrooms. It isn't that I'm afraid of germs or anything, I just -know- that a lot of people (hopefully mainly kids) never wash their hands. Thats no problem during the bathroom visit up until the sink. Unless the sink is an auto-off sink, you have to touch the faucet, then the paper towel dispenser, then the door. Touchless bathrooms solved this problem by utilizing sensors to turn the water on, dispense a towel, and even flush the toilet when you've finished. However, not all touchless bathrooms truly are touchless. Some touchless bathrooms don't have touchless paper towel dispensers, and nearly all of them have the biggest problem of all... manually operated doors. Ideally a bathroom shouldn't have an in/out door, and they should use a snaked hallway to enter, thus eliminating the need for a privacy door.

The bathrooms at the United Nation's visitors area are touchless, yet feature an in/out door. I'll have to let them slide since the restroom was certainly built before the touchless technology. A simple solution for this problem is to use your foot to operate the door. Now if only the door wasn't extra heavy, using your foot wouldn't be such a chore.