Now, I’m no billionaire, but I’m pretty sure that the really rich don’t needed an elaborate contraption to lower their fois-gras-filled bodies into their gold-plated bathtubs. I mean, as I understand it, rich people are good with money, not insanely lazy people willing to drop over US$1,000 on a seat that lets them lie back in a tub without using any of their muscles. That’s something that the elderly and infirm who are unable to lay back easily need.

But I do really love that this is seen as a luxury item. Next week: wheelchairs for the super-rich, allowing them to luxuriously wheel themselves around without using their legs! [Product Page via BornRich]

Wan Love Yu’s micro bubble technology can stably produce bubbles with a 20μm average diameter, that’s roughly 600,000 bubbles in one square centimeter. The bubbles are negatively charged so that they attach to positively charged organic particles and lift them off. The result–foam that reaches way down into a dog’s hair to dissolve dirt and grime.

The Wan Love Yu generator attaches to a regular hose in the bathtub, so it doesn’t require any additional piping work. IDEC is planning on releasing Wan Love on June 20 in Japan for between US$6,000 to US$7,000. Though if that’s the price for shampoo free doggy eyes, I say Fido ought to just suck it up and bathe the old fashioned way. [Fareastgizmos]

None of these things will make taking a bath all that much better, as you can probably set up a TV outside your bathtub on your own if you really want to, and who the hell needs to turn on their tub with their mobile phone? But if bathing your naked body in a solid gold bathtub doesn’t make you feel like a rich sonofabitch, nothing will. And with a list price of US$47,200, that’s just what you’ll have to be to own one. [Product Page via BornRich]

Not only does the Sorgente look expensive, but its unusual design also means you’ll have to build the bathroom around it, instead of the commoner way of throwing in a plastic shell. The tub completely submerges into the floor, and creates that seamless effect by way of a specially designed brim seen in the picture below (think Infinity Pool for the water closet set).

Once you enter the pool, er tub, eight “hydrosilence” whirlpool jets massage your kiester after a long day of driving the Maserati around Rodeo Drive. Meanwhile, the entire tub is surrounded by a choice of teak or oak woods, or three different varieties of stone.

Pricing wasn’t listed on the Teuco product page, but if you have to ask, right? [Teuco via Notcot]

Ah, that’s better. The Rotator is made of some kind of substance called duralight® (important enough for a “registered” symbol, but not important enough for capitals, that’s, like, profound.) It’s on show at this week’s Salone di Mobile in Milan, or the Furniture Fair if you’re a pleb like me who can’t speak Italian, and, aspazzarently, it is “a new enjoyable experience in which a continuous and unexpected flow of water becomes the protagonist.” Is anyone else finding it hard to get a handle on its proportions? It looks Lilliputian in size to me. Ah well, file alongside the self-stirring cuppa, I think. [Dezeen]