Toto's networked Intelligence Toilet
Not so much a technotoilet as a whole-room
system, Toto and Daiwa House's Intelligence Toilet—no, not a derogatory term for the CIA—combines a loo with a built-in
urine analyser, a blood-pressure cuff housed in the counter next to the throne, a set of scales built into the floor in
front of the sink, and a body-fat meter above it that you grip after washing. The data gets "provisionally saved in the
Intelligence Toilet" before being transferred via a home network to your PC, where it's stored and graphed using a
piece of software that'll also use the data to give you dietary advice and so forth. All this will apparently set you
back Y380,000-Y560,000 ($3,550-$5,230) on top of the price of a usual toilet ("usual" in Japan meaning "costs $3,000,
has warm water, massage and dryer attachments, and maybe even an
SD card slot").
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Brian @ Dec 19th 2005 2:23AM
I read somewhere that it also has MP3 playback capability and will be known as the iToilet.
fdisk @ Dec 19th 2005 2:23AM
No, that's different. The iToilet is at http://www.electric-chicken.co.uk/
Brian @ Dec 19th 2005 2:23AM
You're absolutely right! I predict a lawsuit. You know how protective these iToilet makers can be. I sense an eerie parallel here .....
fdisk @ Dec 19th 2005 2:23AM
But with the iToilet, you get to pay every few years for a new roll of toilet paper that has one more square on it. . .
gopi @ Dec 19th 2005 2:23AM
When will we get a toilet with a digital camera and image recognition system that auto-uploads your, umm, "highlights" to http://www.ratemypoo.com?