# Best Review of a Toilet, ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 14, 2011, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609 "2011-10-14T06:53:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/1 "2011-10-14T06:53:25Z")
[From the Thursday New York Times](http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/new_york_times_31.php) - a review of a $6400 toilet. Just one small piece > [@](#): > > Walk up to the Numi, and location sensors will detect your presence and cause the toilet’s lid to rise, revealing the rectangular-on-the-outside, round-where-it-counts seat. If you are a man standing in front of the toilet, you will notice a blue beam of light projected on the right-side floor, adjacent to the toilet. Place your foot in the path of that beam and the toilet seat will rise; break the beam again and the toilet will flush and the seat will lower itself. Yes, it plays music. Yes, it has a remote control. Yes it glows in the dark. And best of all - I write a column once on how you have to reboot everything these days, inspired by a guy coming to a hotel room I was in to reboot the TV. I discovered a colleague who had a picture frame that she often had to reboot. I thought that this was the ultimate, but I was wrong. Yes, the reviewer had to reboot his toilet. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/2 "2011-10-14T07:09:43Z")
64 _hundred_ bucks and you still have to clean the bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/3 "2011-10-14T08:10:06Z")
6400 bucks? You have the help clean the toilet. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/4 "2011-10-14T09:11:32Z")
For that price, **Sunspace** , you’d expect it to clean _itself_. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/5 "2011-10-14T10:02:26Z")
For that price, I would expect it to clean _myself_. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/6 "2011-10-14T10:16:03Z")
_“… it can wash and dry its user (there are modes for women and men). Both functions are accomplished via a wand that extends from under the seat that can spray water or blow air. Pressure and temperature are adjustable, as is the spray pattern, which can go from a steady blast to an oscillating pattern that can only be described as invigorating.”_ I’d say your expectations have been met, **Paul in Qatar** … ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/7 "2011-10-14T13:23:37Z")
For that price, I’d expect it to clean my entire house. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/8 "2011-10-14T13:27:20Z")
For $6400, I don’t even want it to be a toilet. I want a Star Trek-style transporter that simply beams the pee and crap right out of my bladder and bowels, sending them directly into the sewer system, and all I have to do to make it happen is yell out “Make it so, Number One/Number Two” as my needs dictate. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/9 "2011-10-14T13:30:55Z")
Price aside, I’m not sure I really even want an _invigorated_ bunghole. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/10 "2011-10-14T14:28:21Z")
Have you guys seen the commercial for this thing? It was one of those “watch one long commercial or we’ll interrupt your Daily Show a few times” things on Hulu. I about died laughing - it took ages for me to figure out what on earth the cube was, and then, I mean… well, [look at it.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFRC37si8xw) Forget the toilet, let’s buy curtains for the bathroom first, shall we? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/11 "2011-10-14T14:59:19Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > all I have to do to make it happen is yell out “Make it so, Number One/Number Two” I laughed so hard I closed my eyes. Good one! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/12 "2011-10-14T15:29:20Z")
I’d be afraid of dropping the remote into the thing. But if the remote doubled as a phone/camera/e-mail/calculator device, that would be pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/13 "2011-10-14T15:51:09Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > For that price, **Sunspace** , you’d expect it to clean _itself_. For that much, it should [clean the whole room](http://www2.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=091f8cb0-6a2c-4461-a1a6-ba5e424c8a49&k=40234). ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/14 "2011-10-14T15:59:16Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I’d be afraid of dropping the remote into the thing. But if the remote doubled as a phone/camera/e-mail/calculator device, that would be pretty cool. There are some things that shouldn’t have a remote. A toilet is one of those things. I can just see the shenanigans if I were going to the bathroom and my husband could control the toilet by remote, or worse if you’ve got two kids and one of them gets the remote while the other is going. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/15 "2011-10-14T16:24:02Z")
And what if the batteries, er, crap out at an inopportune time? ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/16 "2011-10-14T17:35:48Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I’d be afraid of dropping the remote into the thing. But if the remote doubled as a phone/camera/e-mail/calculator device, that would be pretty cool. Shoudn’t there be an app for that? ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/17 "2011-10-14T17:47:05Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Have you guys seen the commercial for this thing? It was one of those “watch one long commercial or we’ll interrupt your Daily Show a few times” things on Hulu. I about died laughing - it took ages for me to figure out what on earth the cube was, and then, I mean… well, [look at it.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFRC37si8xw) Forget the toilet, let’s buy curtains for the bathroom first, shall we? Bwahaha .. No! The owners of those deluxe toilets will be using them in the their glass homes atop the city. I find great amusement in the ad. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/18 "2011-10-14T17:54:21Z")
> [@zagloba](#): > > Shoudn’t there be an app for that? There’s a crap for that! ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/19 "2011-10-14T18:05:37Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > And what if the batteries, er, crap out at an inopportune time? It is wired into the house electrical, which begs the question about power outages, and the issue that computer systems have with unfiltered power from cheap generators :dubious: At least with my generic kohler I can dump in a bucket of water to flush … ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-review-of-a-toilet-ever/599609/20 "2011-10-14T18:06:57Z")
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