Networked Intelligence Toilet

[Dialectic]

Absolutely brilliant.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000573038042/

Totoís networked Intelligence Toilet

Posted Mar 29, 2005, 10:10 AM ET by Gareth Edwards

TOTO network toilet Not so much a technotoilet as a whole-room system, Toto and Daiwa Houseís Intelligence Toiletóno, not a derogatory term for the CIAócombines 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 ìprovisionally saved in the Intelligence Toiletî before being transferred via a home network to your PC, where itís stored and graphed using a piece of software thatíll 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 (îusualî in Japan meaning ìcosts $3,000, has warm water, massage and dryer attachments, and maybe even an SD card slotî).

[vsoy]

I hope it doesn't run on Windows. Can you imagine what kind of havoc would occur if your fancy toilet crashed or got wedged(bad pun)?
I like gizmos and such but lately, I've become so antitechnology because the things that are supposed to make your life easier, are a fucking nightmare when they don't work. "All I want to do is poo! Waah!!" :lol:

[KeJia Sista]

I hope it doesn't run on Windows. Can you imagine what kind of havoc would occur if your fancy toilet crashed or got wedged(bad pun)?
I like gizmos and such but lately, I've become so antitechnology because the things that are supposed to make your life easier, are a fucking nightmare when they don't work. "All I want to do is poo! Waah!!" :lol:

I've been having the same feeling about hi tech recently. Like everything else they want to sell us; we only get the best case scenerios. Cars were supposed to open up new vistas, save time, etc. We never factored in the pollution, accidents, destruction of communities to highways; the longer and longer commutes; parking problems, the environmental devastation.

We live in a world of eye scanning and the conversations of all our phone calls are saved. Is G-mail going to be a boon or bane with every email saved?

Maybe these toilets are going to become mandatory like the water saving ones that they forcibly installed throughout the city. And that urine check goes to your boss's PC, if not NYPD..

Ke Jia