Wow, just when I thought things couldn’t get any weirder, something comes along and shocks me. Check out this gadget from a Japanese manufacturer Toto. For those of us living in North America, toilet seats are nothing to be proud of. After all, they are designed for us to excrete waste products into a central bowl that can later be flushed (hopefully). In Japan, however, they make their toilet seats special with automatic lifting and heating.

As is the case with technology enthusiasts, we are never satisfied with technology and always want something more compelling. Thanks to Toto, we can now listen to music while going about our business. Thankfully, this unique feature is not connected to the toilet, but to a central computer system that interacts with the toilet. Wow, we take excreting to be such a common and time consuming task and yet our Japanese counterparts make it a technologically advanced activity that’s almost fun (with the music and heated seat).

You go, Toto!

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