This sewage-fuelled contraption is all thanks to Japanese toilet manufacturer TOTO. In just a few days, this motorcycle, and its unfortunate rider, will make a trip across the lower part of Japan, starting in Tokyo and ending on the southern-most island of Kyushu. Why would anyone do this? More »
Toto toilets are world-renowned for their high-techitude, but a new upgrade takes things a step further. Their Neorest toilets are now self-cleaning.
It’s a weigh-scale, a BMI, blood sugar and blood pressure monitor, is networked to your PC and yes, features “urine temperature measurement and analysis”–ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Toto Intelligence Toilet II.
Japan’s second most dubiously famous technological predilection (behind panty-vending machines) is its highfalutin’ toilets, which warm, wash, blow dry and deodorise your bum, just to cover the basics. Japan is also well regarded for taking the lead on going green–average energy consumption per person is half ours. Tragically, the Japanese desire for a pampered and squeaky clean butthole is killing that ethos–and the planet.
You remember Toto, don’t you? Not the dog but the toilet company in Japan that makes those Neorest toilets with the “washlet” under the lid. Now it’s taken that butt-spraying goodness a step further with its Neorest Hybrid Series toilets, which use less water than any other, just 5.5 liters (1.45 gallons) per flush. It’s also jumping into a new hatbox-shaped design that mimics Kohler’s “Purist” hatbox toilet (1.6 gallons per flush) that’s been available for a couple of years.
Toto has been in a competition with Matsushita in Japan to make the most efficient toilet, where Matsushita had a 5.7 liter-per-flush toilet released late last year, but now Toto roars back with this Neorest Hybrid Series. The company didn’t announce pricing just yet, but if this one is in line with Toto’s other Neorest toilets, it will probably start around $4000. [Far East Gizmos] More »
