Google employees are so special that they even get Japanese space toilets on which to rest their stock options.
SFist found these sexy Japanese Toto toilets in Google’s headquarters. They feature front and rear cleansing along with a dryer and some sort of insane wand cleaning system that may be part of Google’s 80-20 projects policy. The toilets are fairly common in Japan – heck, there are even toilets that offer birdsong to cover up embarrassing noises – so perhaps they’re these were installed as a treat for their Asian employees.
The real question, however: Is there an API?
WTH is wand cleaning?
Wow, Japan really is waaaayyy ahead of us. I thought it was just phones and MP3 players, etc. But their toilets too? This sucks, I am still stuck in the porcelain age.
I wonder which is more eco-friendly? Using paper to wipe your arse, or wasting water and using electricity to dry yourself?
Yeah, really, is there an API? I’d like to be able to control the flushing from twitter.
I don’t belive I will let google clean my magic wand or anything else.
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The real question, however: Is there an API?
Hilarious
I’ve used one of these while at a Google event and went for the wand cleaning, rear side. After about 2 seconds I hit Stop cause that thing was getting crazy down there!
API ?
Yes .. you will get a Text Message on your CellPhone via Twitter once the cleaning is done
to get started .. send FRONT or REAR or STOP to GOOG
as long as the pull-the-tampon-function is disabled for men, i’m in…
That’s hilarious, a robot cleaning your….
Nat
http://www.workersinc.com
Coming soon: Microsoft Live Toilet.
It’s about time we start catching up to Japan’s toilet technology.
http://www.broc....com/toiletech/
Um, this was in the building back when SGI was there. Seriously people….
Like most of Google’s products, this is still in beta. #1 works fine, #2 still has some bugs.
wand cleaner: http://www.whol...eaningbrush.cfm
These toilets are great. They even give you a nice puff of perfume for added freshness.
Where are the 3 Sea Shells?
It has an ‘Oscillating’ option. There you go.
It has an ‘Oscillating’ option. There you go.
With the API you can pull pranks on your buddies buy sending a tweet to cleanse rear when the go to the bathroom.
@10 – Kevin – oh man, I just lost it. bahahah!
Yeah these have been there for a while. When I was there for events a few times, I only went for the seat warming. Everything else kind of scares me.
After 4 years working here in Japan, I believe I can’t live w/o these types of toilet.
I’m gonna buy one for mine when I back to my country for sure.
Well, paper will not “wipe” things. It just spreads dirtiness around your hole. The change started coupld of decades ago in Japan, and am so comfortable with that.
Big G finally reached to the Japanese office standard. I hope others will follow.
That’s ridiculous. Would you really trust some automated water sprinklers to hit the right spots and not spread the fecal matter around other parts of your body or clothes.
I opt for toilet paper followed by a wet wipe.
API? Eh.
My brother laughed at my parents when they bought a bidet. Then he bought one. Then I laughed at him. And then I bought one. A friend of mine laughed at me, until she bought herself one. Another friend laughed at us both, and now she’s asking for recommendations on which model to buy.
Don’t knock it until you try it. Vastly superior to toilet paper.
API?
What do you want to hack for?
Over a billion Indians have been washing for over 5000 years.
http://jp.youtu...h?v=L8ndLz4SGmU
translation:
Hey everyone, when you’re hands get dirty you wash them don’t you? If you hand gets dirty like this you don’t just wipe it with paper. Why? Because the paper doesn’t clean it. Your bottom is the same.
Dump on Demand(DoD) – oops not to be confused with the other DoD (Dept of Defense)
There’s an API, but its crappy.
The bad news is, all of those space-age toilets are burning a tremendous amount of energy. Google should really get rid of them.
Now all they need is the sound of running water to enable one to ‘go’ when you have a bit of ’stage fright’.
You are slanderous regarding your comments about Asian employees. I take strong exception to this attitude of yours.
API?
Well there’s certainly an IP.
And also an IPoo.
I love these loos … let us spray.
If wand cleaning is what it sounds like, that would make Google the only company whose workers really do have to take it up the *cough*.
Greggman: There is a difference between the importance of clean hands and a clean arse, and that is that you don’t greet people by sticking your hand in their rectum, nor do you prepare food with your sphincter.
Well if there was an api…
one could hook on the events to the google social site:
public void onUserFlushFrontSpray(Event e)
{
//Write events to google log
openSocial.writeEvent(”User flushed front”,e.getMessage());
//Show Message
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,”Are you sure you want to spray your “);
// put your events here…
}
There is an API but do you really want to hook onto it
You must be Sh*tt*ng me.
Kevin.. good one! I have already started looking for an executive position in google
I am still convince if we fast-forward to 20 years, our toilets will still look the same …
OH MY GOD. I’m in Japan for an exchange trip, and my family has that EXACT toilet. Except I can’t read it.
ya, it’s nothing special in Japan. Once you use these type of toilet, you’ll have frustration to using a paper
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Yes, this is standard in Japan.
By the way, I really don’t understand why there is a sign “Employees Must Wash Hands Before Returning to Work” at washrooms in US. This means some or many people don’t wash their hands after washroom. Weird…
I went to the Toto headquarters in Tokyo. They have a showroom in the lobby where you can see their latest toilets. Wow! The newer models are even better.
its like looking into the future…
its like sitting on the future
forever….. may be the coolest place to sit given the facilities…..just need a laptop and a idiot-box around….this could be the best lazy boy ever…..not even “natures call” can force u out of it 
…
Wait until the first dis-gruntled employee sets the tempature to 212° F (100°C)
Wand cleaning?
BTW, is this thing out of beta ?