The Type-A, High-Tech Bathroom

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 3, 2006 @10:33PM from the he's-in-a-meeting dept.

Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "Hard-driving homeowners have converted their loos into virtual satellite workspaces, with retractable desks or waterproof touch-screen monitors, the Wall Street Journal reports. Among the features: showerproof computers and mirrors with stock quotes. But beware the accidental 'BlackBerry dunk' in the toilet or sink. 'Audio One says about all of the 30 home-automation systems it's installed near its Miami head office in the past year--prices can reach $200,000--have featured TVs in the bathroom. "It's become a given," says company engineer David Sussman. "There's not much sanctity left." '"

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Re:Accuse me of no humour, but... by postbigbang · 2006-02-04 01:57 · Score: 1, Troll

I suppose it's everyone's right to piss away hundreds of thousands of dollars in a nihilistic effort to get HDTV in their bathrooms. Leave it to the WSJ to highlight conspicuous excess and rich people behaving badly.

And I don't care if they worked for it or not; it's reprehensible.

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