1. Users Feel Flush with New Digital Toilet.
- Author
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Paulson, Linda Dailey
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TOILETS , *COMPUTERS , *COMPUTER systems , *BATHROOMS - Abstract
A Japanese firm has taken computer technology into new areas of human activity by developing a complex, computer-controlled toilet system. The $5,000 Neorest toilet from Toto automatically raises and lowers the seat as needed, flushes the bowl, deodorizes the air and cleans itself. The system also provides controls for heating the toilet seat and even replaces toilet paper with a bidet-like water sprayer and dryer, called a personal cleansing system. The toilet is powered by a 128-kilobyte ROM chip with separate RAM chips, offering a total of 512 kilobytes of memory, located in a motherboard in the seat.
- Published
- 2004