The technology is part of a challenge launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Samsung has engineered a safe and efficient toilet that turns your excrement into ashes, according to a press release published last month by the firm.

The prototype is part of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, an initiative launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2011.

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Samsung in cooperation with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has developed a new toilet that offers a safe and efficient way of dealing with poop. This could be a game changer in developing nations that suffer from sanitation problems.