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Best High-Tech Toilet?
shellac writes "For a number of years now, Japan has had incredibly high-tech toilets, complete with a funky electronic control panel that controls a water jet for cleaning the posterior, a hot air blow dryer, a fake flushing sound to cover up those noisy "Dumb & Dumber" style sessions, a seat warmer, and other nice features, not to mention the occasional amusing gaijin encounter. Prototype models can also chemically analyze urine using lasers. The manufacturer, Toto, has made these available in the US and in other countries, but they have failed to largely fulfill their promised potential, despite their popularity in Japan. There is some evidence Kohler toilets is keeping these out of American markets. The toilets also appear to be a victim of poor marketing on Toto's part, which in all fairness may be due to Western advertising taboos that do not exist in Japan. I know I would love to have one of these, and I suspect many others would as well. What does that /. community think of these toilets? Can anyone post a personal review?"
Just how much time do you spend on the toilet? Time to cut some of the Mountain Dew out of the diet, maybe?
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Just what we need, a nation full of toilets blinking 12:00.
That's nifty and all but I'm still trying to figure out the three sea shells.
"Prototype models can also chemically analyze urine using lasers."
"An adult male's recommended dietary allowances for vitamin C is 60 mg per day."
If my urine is yellow I don't need a computer with lasers to tell me I've had my daily intake of vitamin C.
Uhh, no thanks..
I have a few simple requests to toilet makers:
- Odor detection and removal.
- Gender detection and ajustment (regarding this whole toilet seat issue...)
- Self-cleaning
- Methane detection and recycling
- Portability
- Stability
- Scalability
- Modularity
... Oh man, never work on software design when you need to take a dump...
I guess someone had to say it
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Now If they only can come out with the lazybowl. A toilet with a morning paper holder, a beer fridge, a built in remote, and high speed internet access...
I like replies better than Karma, even if they are flames, because that tells me I got someone thinking.
I've seen similar to these on the street in London and San Francisco. The downside is that if there is a queue, you have to wait for it to complete the "wash cycle" after each user, which includes having the floor descend into a pit of antiseptic goo, and hot sprays washing & drying everything inside.
I had to restrain a lady who tried to bolt straight inside after I had finished. Maybe I shouldn't have...
If my call is important, why am I talking to a recording?
...is that if I'm expected to spend that much time/effort/money for/on a toilet, there better be a button on that there control panel for "blow^h^h^h^h oral gratification".
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I can't think of a better place to "punch the monkey."
Heeeelyeah dude, I've been wanting a sphincterial scrubing water ass-jet thingie for years now. For me it's like cleaning peanut butter from shag carpet. I'll leave you with that wonderful visual ;-)
Japan has both very high-end, high-tech toilets, and low-end squat-over-a-hole-in-the-floor toilets as well. I've had a chance to use both, and I posted some reviews, with pictures!
http://www.links.net/vita/trip/japan/toilets/
About the electric toilets, the basic feature that's quite common, even without the spray, etc, is a heated toilet seat. Which makes a lot of sense and makes for great comfort first thing on a winter morning. There are a lot of heated toilet seats without all the gadgetry here, and when I visit home and my buttocks shiver when I sit I appreciate these devices. Of course it's all superfluous, nothing totally necessary, just like toilet paper, right? You can always use one of your hands and then wash it afterwards. But as long as you're going to go for comfort, you might as well have heated toilet seats as well as toilet paper.
So now drug users are going to start peeing in sinks, garbage cans, open drains, dark corners...
Just fucking great. Thanks, scientists! Now we can't even have some fucking privacy when we take a leak>:\
And by "we" I mean EVERYONE, not just drug users. How soon til the toilet detects you've got diabetes and tattles on you to the insurance companies?
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
...one big adventure game. You know, like Myst or Monkey Island. It's getting to the point that you can't even go to the toilet without figuring out some kind of logic puzzle.
I guess it could be worse, it could be turning into a big platform game. Watch out for those spinning blades!
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Your post may have been the only time in history where the tag would have made something cooler.
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What else can be detected by urine samples? And when will the toilet be on the home or world network? Open up your browser to read From: potty emails.
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I prefer to drop all my deuces right here in the comments section of slashdot.
I haven't used anything else as a toilet in years.
- A.P.
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Nothing beats THIS
You've obviously never had jets of water shot at your anus. You wouldn't call this Ask Slashdot frivolous if you had.
So I'm looking at the pretty pictures on the first link and click the Features Menu link thinking I'll get a list of features for the johns. Up pops the AIDS in Zimbabwe page. If AIDS is a feature of the toilet, I really don't want one!
You could use some water jets. It might wash the stick out of your ass.
You know that's what it would be used for! You know it! Own up to it..... Just what everyone needs - to put a bookmark to The Hun on the crapper's console!
No shit. Living in california has forced my colon to evolve to point of being able to partition my fecal droppings into portions that will flush. I'm not some fucking vegan soybean eating tweeked out southern california heroin addict, when I take a dump it is a glorious and reveling thing, I'm not some herbivore in the woods walking in the woods with pellets shooting out of my ass I'm the big bear farting big stinky brown torpedos into the water, fuck I'm ranting but why the fuck should I have to keep my frigging plunger near the toilet at all times because you have a better frigging chance to hit the jackpot than to flush the turd, 5 gallon flushes with a woosh sound, a fucking vacuum, I don't care if it sucks so hard my anus is inside out I just my god damn shit to go on happily to wherever it needs to be.
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