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  • April 1st, 2009

    Japanese toilet analyzes stool, beams results to cell phones via personalized URLs

    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. → Read More

    August 25th, 2008

    "Green" super-toilet reduces usage of water, improves odor in rest rooms

    No country can rival Japan when it comes to toilets. The local market (worth several billion US dollars) is controlled by two companies, Toto and Inax, both of which are also active in the USA. Especially Inax recently managed to make a name for themselves as an innovator by offering a music-playing and light-emitting toilet for home use (Inax Regio) or a model that supports SD cards (Inax Asteo)… → Read More