Data Dump: Japanese toilet outputs statistics via RSS

Posted by Joel Johnson, April 1, 2009 10:02 AM | permalink

Japanese toilet manufacturer Inax has begun soft launching a toilet in shopping centers that will analyze stool for bacteria counts, blood, fat content, and more, then beam the results to the web with a unique URL for later viewing. If I'm parsing this correctly, you can also subscribe to an RSS feed for a particular toilet, making it possible to see how the neighbors are doing. [Digital World Tokyo via CrunchGear]

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#1 posted by BCJ , April 1, 2009 10:26 AM

This thing brings the idea of "Twitter Shitter" to a whole other level.

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#2 posted by swedub , April 1, 2009 10:28 AM

Does that sign mean your suppose to flip off the screen?

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#3 posted by ROSSINDETROIT , April 1, 2009 10:33 AM

I'm going to stop reading posts with the name Japan in the title. They make me feel like I live in some kind of 3rd world backwater where the toilets just rinse stuff away and robots don't have mind control interfaces.

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#4 posted by ROSSINDETROIT , April 1, 2009 10:34 AM

Wait. April 1. DAMMIT!

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#5 posted by Joel Johnson

, April 1, 2009 10:36 AM

Ross, for what it's worth, I'm trying very hard not to post anything that isn't a real news story today. I can't vouch for everything, obviously, but I think this is true.

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#6 posted by Yep , April 1, 2009 11:00 AM

"...making it possible to see how the neighbors are doing." dooing.

t,ftfy.

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#7 posted by MrScience , April 1, 2009 11:03 AM

Drat, you beat me to it, #1! http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/

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#8 posted by Epimenides , April 1, 2009 5:05 PM

It's definitely a Fool, and a pretty decent effort at that. There's no way on earth this wondrous device could ever exist.........

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#9 posted by gouldina , April 2, 2009 1:23 AM

That toilet appears to be giving us the finger.

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#10 posted by Anonymous , April 3, 2009 2:12 AM

I am from Japan and I've heard of this on the news before. Japan is super advanced when it comes to toilets with sensors, automatic flushing, flushing sounds, etc

anyways, definitely not an april fools... Japanese are just serious especially when it comes to the toilet business!