ITOI children's interactive toilet concept is terrifying
By Nilay Patel 
posted February 5th 2009 4:42PM
posted February 5th 2009 4:42PM
posted February 5th 2009 4:42PM
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Perhaps that's the idea. xD
All I can think of is from Vinnie Jones' mouth... "Filthy I-Tais!"
Why would you want to psychologically scar your child for life by scarring them to death with a creepy toilet seat that looks like its about to molest you?
There's nothing like good old fashioned trauma to create life-long bathroom-related phobias for the rest of their little lives...
Of course, the problem with "cute" gadgets like this is that they tend to back-fire (no pun intended) and you get very unpleasant results. Kids will likely miss the point and start throwing objects in the toilet--toys, deoderant sticks, razors, cell phones, etc.
Back in the day (i.e., about 10-15 years ago), there as a little application/extension for the Mac that animated the trash can so Oscar the Grouch would come out and sing about his love for trash whenever you put things in it and/or emptied the the trash. Kids were deleting their parents files just to watch Oscar.
And yes--crap gadget for sure!
i remember that!
my little brother deleted the brickles game that came installed on our macintosh II.
it was a sad day...
I remember that too! that was really great!
Now im on the dark side in the pc world...
Hahahaha, wtf is this thing doing here?
Of course it's a crapgadget! It was a project we had to do for a class. Designed, built, and tested in 10 days and for less than $20!!
We are not expecting to sell any of these and I know it can't compete with the real gadgets!
We had no choice with the music (which becomes really annoying after a while) or materials.... but we still got it working.
In Soviet Russia, the toilet seat sits on You!
Everything about this is terrible but the fact that the toilet paper pops into reach only after the song has played in its atrocious ENTIRETY is just plain evil. What is this supposed to teach children? The only thing it is likely to do is making that little tune reverberate in their heads every time they hear the distinct sound of their cargo plunging into the toilet water and sit in paralysed terror for the exact lenght of it and afterwards, and ONLY afterwards, daring to reach for the wipe roll.
"I'm hungry for your poo!"
i know some people would probably use that left hand for something else...
Ewwww! Don't even GO there!
To the company that invested in research and development of this so-called interactive toilet seat for children, you would have been better off investing with Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme than this craptacular device. You have to be utterly embarrassed with yourselves. I hope your company isn't public owned because I think my bowl movements are worth more than the company's stocks.
bring it. i don't think this will be just for kids. it looks like something you do battle with.
WTF?!?!?
I do NOT want a robotic toilet seat wiping my arse!
just think what that terrifying arm could do to my "Gentleman Vegetables" or "poo shoot"!!!
You guys are all failing to see the utility in this device:
You put the kid on the toilet, turn this thing on, thereby scaring the shit (or piss) out of him/her. Mission accomplished.
It's ingenious, actually.
. kinda freaky though but the auto tp holder idea is neat. a motion sensor and then your tp reaches out to you. saving you the trouble. thats the real invention.
scratch that, put a spaceship design with laser sounds and bomb sounds for "poops" with a score to get and kids will like it . get rid of the hand.
What I did for encourage my younger to stop using diaper was creating a little calendar with small toilets drawing each days... when he did well, I draw a smily face on the toilet and put a sticker... when he did in the diaper mister toilet got a sad sad face... mister toilet really like poo you know... no poo, no smile.
I should have web camed the expression on my face after watching that. I literally sat dumbfounded for about 30 seconds after seeing that.
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Funny, my daughter just had her first poop in the potty yesterday...anyhow...
This is a wonderful example of an engineer that obviously doesn't have children, or that potty trained their children at age 8. This would scare the hell out of a kid. They'd jump off the potty, cower in a corner and be crying hiding their head in their arms weeping while waving a hand at it saying "GO WAY!!!!!!!!!! GO WAY!!!!!!! NO MORE!"
Trust me...that's what a dancing Elmo does to kids this age... *sniff*
Larry Craig would love this.
I bet Peter Griffin would love this.
I actually flinched a bit when the thing started singing, just image some poor kid sitting on it.
they already pooped though.......why are you scaring them?
Hi5 You can poop!
"wait.......did he tinkle, or poop.....is there a different song if he tinkled........wait....nope...that was spittle." - Toilet Trainer
Adult Help....nuff said
can you imagine trying to use one of these in a public place, "if your happy and you know it clap your hands"- trainer "somebody made poopy!!!!" - man at sink
This thing went back in time and scarred me for life.
Hahhah this is iShit