As just about any other gaijin living in Japan, I came to love Japanese toilets. They have multiple buttons and functions to play around with, keep your bottom warm during cold days and are generally totally over-engineered. While this is pretty cool and fine with me, Japan’s Inax has now overdone it with a very interesting online feature.
The nation’s No. 2 manufacturer of “sanitary fixtures” has developed a toilet terminal that informs you about the structure of your stool via a personalized URL (now consider another big problem for mankind solved). The FKF-20M [JP] (pictured below) is a remote control stand that’s compatible with a number of Inax high-tech toilets.
This is how it works:
After the job is done and the toilet analyzes your excreta (amount of bacteria, body fat etc.), a URL containing information about the results of the analysis is created and automatically sent to your cell phone via an infrared connection (there are infrared panels serving as no-touch flush sensors in most modern toilets in Japan). Users can then open the corresponding page on their mobile browser and check their health. It’s magical.
The FKF-20M is of course Japan-only and costs $560. It goes on sale within this month. I will test the thing personally when I find one, promised.
For those that doubt skynet, this is proof that it is coming to hunt you whereever you are. There will be no safe place for youn skynet will rule the world starting with your shit.
crazy stuff, but cool
I’ll buy one of these if it sends the updates to my twitter account so all of my followers can see.
@Scott
Twitter is VERY popular in Japan, too, so this may come sooner than we all might expect.
I wonder if the tech then would also support Twitpic.
This could actually be pretty cool… I wonder if places like Subway could use it as an advertising tool. When you find out you’ve eaten plenty of fatty foods, it could give you a coupon for the nearest Subway.
Although obviously intended as a joke, the product described makes perfect sense, and might even infringe on patents held by Exact Sciences, Inc.
I don’t believe this shit.
I don’t believe this shit.
P.S.: Forgot to say good post!
You guys got FOOLED!!! That is just a remote control stand. It says nothing about analysing your pooh!