First of all, there's the vacancy indicator. Handy. Courteous.
Now let's take a look inside.
A: First electric eye. As soon as you walk through the door, this sensor tells the seat to begin warming. I find that on average it reaches optimum temperature about one second after I sit down.
B: Second electric eye. If you decide to sit down, this sensor will instruct another toilet robot to release some extra water into the bowl.
C: Control panel. I haven't touched this thing yet. As you can probably guess from the picture (click for a close-up), it offers a variety of bidet options. The main dial is for water pressure. The other buttons let you control water temperature and direction, as well as seat temperature.
D: Handle. Flip it up for "small flush", down for "big flush".
E: Spout. When you flush, the water that eventually washes and refills the bowl first flows into and through the small sink above the toilet, giving you 30 seconds of running water with which to wash your hands.
Lastly, when the seat is raised, a soft green light illuminates the bottom of the bowl, giving necessary aiming aid in case you don't want to fully readjust your eyes to overhead lights in the middle of the night.
Update!
Stubble Trouble reader Adamistic writes:
I once heard that in public restrooms, Japanese folk (particularly women? or no? that detail escapes me) addressed their shyness about eliminatory noises by flushing whenever they were pooping. Further, apparently some places had installed speakers and a button that could be pushed to simulate the sound of a flush to be used for this purpose, saving untold millions in water costs.After consulting my most reliable resource (Yuki) I can report that these devices do exist, and have become commonplace in women's restrooms since the 1980s, though Wikipedia and my own minimal experience show that they are rarely found in men's rooms. The name of the most popular brand that makes such devices is Otohime (literally: "Sound Princess"), also the name of a goddess from Japanese mythology.
Maybe one of the mysterious controls on your control panel also does this?
8 comments:
your toilet is better than my new apartment. i'm pretty much in love with it. i think you will have a very nice time if you sit down on it and press the middle button on the control pannel.
that's so awesome, and a far cry from polska standards!
-adaś
toilet trouble!! That's what I would have trying to figure out all of that! I would just have to sit there and WARM up to the whole thing.
What a way to go!
I need to flush the comment that I posted in the wrong spot. Do you think this toilet can do that?
But it doesn't have a three-holer like I "got" to use while growing up. Aren't you afraid of messing it up?
holy hell, mang! that's cooler than any future world i've seen in any sci-fi movie! society has peaked with the existence of a toilet that wonderful; i'm not even joking on you!!!
...crap blastitt! some dungworm on the teevee is wearing a stupid frayed faux-army hat just like mine and singing his whining ass's love song!! now i mustn't wear that hat again?
..."the day tomorrow froze" or whatever is on and they beat a wolf to death with a flashlight. oh, it sounds worse than it is: it's just stupid, not gross. anyway, the wolf was made of computer paint.
I once heard that in public restrooms, Japanese folk (particularly women? or no? that detail escapes me) addressed their shyness about eliminatory noises by flushing whenever they were pooping. Further, apparently some places had installed speakers and a button that could be pushed to simulate the sound of a flush to be used for this purpose, saving untold millions in water costs.
Maybe one of the mysterious controls on your control panel also does this?
But the hand-sink about the reservoir, that kicks mighty conservation ass. Beautiful in its simplicity!
The dude-pee nightlight is a close rival for coolness, if not for water conservation -- me, I just leave the light off and then break down and turn it on if it sounds like I missed. :)
- The Midnight Pee-er What Pees at Midnight
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