Sunday, August 12, 2012

I think this might be overdoing it . . .


Some enterprising Japanese company has invented an electronic delivery solution to the toilet paper dispensing problem.  (I wasn't actually aware that the problem existed in the first place, but there you are . . . )





I suspect they haven't quite thought this through, because - what happens if the power goes out while you're 'seated on the throne'?  You'd better be able to get that sucker open to retrieve the necessary paper the old-fashioned way, or you're going to spend the entire period of the power failure stuck in situ, cursing the name of the designer!

Talk about technological overkill . . .





Peter

8 comments:

Toejam said...

"what happens if the power goes out while you're 'seated on the throne'?"

Use the tried and true Islamic method: Give a couple of slaps with your bare left hand.

Actually, there's probably no need to worry. Knowing the Japanese each dispenser has "battery-back up".

JimmyT said...

Oh and they solved that age old problem of smoothly tearing off the your strip of paper with a razor built right in the machine to cut it off after the right amount has been dispensed. No more of those ugly tears or those little crease marks on your TP. Oh, what will they think of next!!!

BT: Jimmy T sends.

Noons said...

Only one comment seems appropriate to me:
(facepalm!)

Tamara Kelly said...

Is it intended to sit inside the toilet cubicle? In Japan, public toilets are not supplied with paper and there is usually a little old lady or man sitting out the front selling paper. OR as you travel through the train stations toilet paper (tissue packs) are distributed with advertising. So I suppose this invention might also be intended as a distribution service.

Anonymous said...

When I lived in Tokyo I saw toilets with built-in electronic bidets, heated seats, and electronic noisemakers that mimicked the sound of flushing, to disguise and mask the sound of (horrors!) flatulence.

I also read about a new feature being developed that incorporated chemical sniffers to detect signs of cancer in the user. I shit you not.

-Don in Oregon

Peter said...

There is more than one reason that I never leave the house without two clean, large bandanas in my pockets. As cheap as they are I have no regrets when I come home without one. If going to a wedding or funeral I take four.

And, yes, I have had to wipe with one during an unfortunate trip where I got a bad case of the runs while between towns and rest stops. All cotton bandanas are, after all, biodegradable.

Some other Peter.

Luke said...

But only after washing your hands.

Anonymous said...

Not a new problem. 50 years ago you'd be lucky if a public loo had any paper. My father always carried loo paper in his wallet.