Posted on 04/10/2014 7:16:24 AM PDT by C19fan
“One today could design a super modern electronic salt shaker that measures out the amount of salt you really need by using an electronic probe in the food, but would you really use it?”
Hell no!!
It would probably measure the amount of salr Moochell obama said I needed and not the amount I wanted!!
Having lived in Japan for just short of a decade, a couple of observations: the heated seats are because many of the houses in Japan don't have central heating and it gets cold when you have to turn the kerosene off so you don't asphyxiate overnight. Showers are basically tile-floor affairs next to the tub, and when your bare foot hits that tile in the middle of a Japanese winter you don't need coffee.
I had a good neighbor with extensive American sales experience who returned to Japan (Hayama), let his wife (!) design a house to their new expectations that had central heating, a Western fireplace, and full-sized furniture. He was considered a radical but everyone came to his parties.
These toilets are more popular in public and semi-public areas than in private homes, where basic functionality at an acceptable cost is just as important in Japan as here. Let's face it, pooping shouldn't have a learning curve once you're out of diapers.
If I find a place to land, I intend on putting in a urinal, and a squat toilet, with a hand held shower head as a bidet.
Carpet in the bathroom?
That is one thing we rarely see anymore in the states since the 1970s, but when I do, it grosses me out.
Not the whole bathroom... it the drop rug thingy that you can wash a couple of times a week..
No, it wouldn't.
Not if I designed it.
If I designed it, it would be adaptive and artificially intelligent (to a limited extent). It would measure salinity before and after you salt your food; it would "learn" to apply the amount of salt you use, adjusting that amount as your tastes change with time.
It would also be hideously expensive.
And you still wouldn't use it.
Neither would I.
Why?
Because it's BULLCRAP! It adds nothing of value to my life, is complicated and expensive, and does something that I'm perfectly capable of doing myself. I'd just as soon have a self-driving car.
Kohler has a super duper toilet that beats the Japs hands down.
: )
It even keeps your feet warm. So there!!!!!
http://www.kohler.com/numi/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8jCP_-oBgQ
http://www.us.kohler.com/us/Bathroom-Toilets/Numi/brand/430036/429984.htm?isRedirectedTo=true&searchTerm=numi&_requestid=183315
I have this one with the remote. I'm a peasant. ; )
http://www.us.kohler.com/us/C3-Toilet-Seat-with-Bidet-Functionality/content/CNT2400393.htm
In America it is about cost, and people not really being aware of what is available for the bathroom.
It takes years for new technology to catch on in bathrooms and it usually has to come from the contractors putting it in new houses.
One of the most wasteful trends in bathroom technology that I have ever seen was the oversize Jacuzzi tub, it was rarely used and generally came to be a place to water or store the house plants.
People will love heated seats and modern toilets, when someone starts installing them as standard in new homes.
“I’d just as soon have a self-driving car.”
That’s something I will never have, I love driving too much!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8jCP_-oBgQ
Kohler from Wisconsin has a more advanced toilet.
For real!!!!
It even keeps your feet warm, seat goes up as you enter the bathroom, music, night light.....
I’m just not decadent enough for a heated, douching, blow-drying and ass buffing toilet with an internet connection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8jCP_-oBgQ
http://www.us.kohler.com/us/Bathroom-Toilets/Numi/brand/430036/429984.htm?isRedirectedTo=true&searchTerm=numi&_requestid=183315
I got the information second hand but from a reliable source. He said the living was just too rough. They slept on mats, and just had a hole in the floor for a toilet.
They had become too Americanized to put up with it.
My point, exactly. Having a machine do everything for you is boring. Salting food can be part of the experience of eating it ... food isn't just fuel. Driving is, in and of itself, FUN. Driving to work is fun and relaxing, where riding to work in a self-driving car would either be boring or stressful.
“It does not even occur to us, to want a toilet with a stereo or mood lighting.”
Exactly. Just put a magazine rack on the wall, and I’m good.
Montana for me. But you’re right.
But I noticed Americans started screaming about the low-flow toilets fast enough, so theyre not completely indifferent. I’m not crazy about low flow toilets myself. And that might be a reason that these Japanese toilets haven’t caught on—the guy say that they use a lot of water.
But I appreciate his point. Sometimes there are obvious reasons, cultural or whatever, that people reject good ideas from other countries. Other times its a mystery.
Montana for me. But you’re right.
But I noticed Americans started screaming about the low-flow toilets fast enough, so theyre not completely indifferent. I’m not crazy about low flow toilets myself. And that might be a reason that these Japanese toilets haven’t caught on—the guy say that they use a lot of water.
But I appreciate his point. Sometimes there are obvious reasons, cultural or whatever, that people reject good ideas from other countries. Other times its a mystery.
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