This isn't a toilet blog, really. But sometimes I just have to share, and this is one of those times.
I recently had occasion to hang out in an airport first-class lounge (said occasion being a guest of a first-class traveler, not that my travel budget has suddenly seen a windfall), where I encountered what is either the coolest or scariest toilet I've ever seen. Really, I think it was even a step above the ones at Narita (Tokyo's airport) and Google.
The first scary-cool thing is that when you walk into the stall, the cover lifts up by itself. That's just weird and freaky, and made me want to look around to see if someone was watching with a remote control. But it's also a little geeky-cool. And good for the ultra-germ-aphobe, I suppose.
Another thing the fancy toilet does automatically is warm the seat, or maybe the seat is just kept warm 24-7. Either way, again: weird-freaky-cool.
The control panel was bad enough, but what was really intimidating was the instruction sheet glued to the wall. It all seemed very complicated for what is usually such a simple process (pull cord/press button/push handle) --just far too many options. Classic paralysis of choice. I counted 16 buttons, the only one of which I was confident in using turned out to be unnecessary, as the self-opening, self-heating toilet is also self-flushing. But I did feel the need to go back and get my camera to document them. I'm sure the woman at the mirror didn't think there was anything remotely strange about me going into the stall and beeping.
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