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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on October 13, 2011, 06:52:09 PM
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-13-11 11:36 PM
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Only the US Government is wasteful enough to pay $6,400 for a toilet, right?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/technology/personalte...
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Earlier this year, the latest salvo was fired by the venerable bath fixtures manufacturer Kohler. It produced a new toilet, the Numi. The Numi features a touch-screen remote control. The Numi washes and dries its user. The Numi costs $6,400 or 81 times the price of the basic throne at Home Depot.
The most striking feature of the Numi is what you don’t get: any visible levers or buttons. All the Numi controls are handled through a touch screen remote control that is somewhat larger than an iPod Touch. That remote controls flushing, cleaning, drying, music, heating and other settings and preferences; combinations of preferences can be stored in user profiles for different family members. When not in use, the remote docks in a magnetic charging cradle that can be mounted on the wall. There are backup buttons at the rear of the toilet just in case the remote is not working.
Then there’s the Numi’s design. The toilet, when closed, is a large white rhombus that sits in your bathroom. It does not so much say “toilet†as much as “giant building block from Lego: the Marcel Breuer Collection.†The rear panels are translucent, and LED lights gently illuminate the toilet when the Numi’s sensor determines that the room has gone dark. Another LED is mounted in the bowl itself for additional nighttime guidance; both lights’ intensity can be adjusted with the remote control.
Walk up to the Numi, and location sensors will detect your presence and cause the toilet’s lid to rise, revealing the rectangular-on-the-outside, round-where-it-counts seat. If you are a man standing in front of the toilet, you will notice a blue beam of light projected on the right-side floor, adjacent to the toilet. Place your foot in the path of that beam and the toilet seat will rise; break the beam again and the toilet will flush and the seat will lower itself.
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Meanwhile, there's a family of three living in a Buick down the block.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2112782
And the price of that toilet wouldn't support them for more than a few months.
QUERY: How many people could be lifted out of poverty for all the luxuries/non-essentials in DUmbass homes?
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You know, I bet you I could design a crapper with all those bells and whistles for a hell of a lot less.
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You know, I bet you I could design a crapper with all those bells and whistles for a hell of a lot less.
The one I bought was advertising, "Give your bunns a break."
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Meanwhile, there's a family of three living in a Buick down the block.
Did I miss some news about Bobo?
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Did I miss some news about Bobo?
This just in:
General Francisco Franco is still dead.
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You know, I bet you I could design a crapper with all those bells and whistles for a hell of a lot less.
But why, if you can convince suckers to pay close to $7000 for a toilet? :-)
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But why, if you can convince suckers to pay close to $7000 for a toilet? :-)
So I can get the money from the suckers who really want one but can only spend $3000. What? I wanna part of the 1%. :wink:
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But oh what a throne it is! :rotf:
http://kohler.com/numi/?brand=kpast&source=google&mat=exact&cat=branded&kwd=kohler+numi&s_kwcid=TC|16158|kohler+numi||S|e|8967514029#overview.html
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round peg, square hole?????
that toilet is to contemporary for me
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This guy seems happy about the numi:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtzQCSh6xk[/youtube]
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Definitely in my "Why in Hell would I blow my money on that" category.
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Meanwhile, there's a family of three living in a Buick down the block.
Yes, and if the deadbeat parents ever decide to get jobs, it will be people like the inventor of the Numi that hire them.
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Yes, and if the deadbeat parents ever decide to get jobs, it will be people like the inventor of the Numi that hire them.
Bingo. While most of us think that spending $7000.00 on a toilet is excessive, there are people who can afford it and want to purchase it, so who am i to begrudge them spending their money on an item that employs people who make the item, not to mention the working man plumber who has to install the item. That's how capitalism works.
Meanwhile their false idol, lord zero, is flying all over the country in his fancy jet that you and I pay for (and he has the gall to criticize private jet owners) attending fundraisers at $35,000.00 a plate and they don't utter a peep about that gigantic waste of money.
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While most of us think that spending $7000.00 on a toilet is excessive, there are people who can afford it and want to purchase it
You could get that on the black market for the old 5-gallon or 7-gallon models that actually work.
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If I could afford a $35,000.00 dinner and was stooopid enough to buy it, I would probably be stooopid enough to want to drop it in a $7,000.00 toilet.
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Definitely in my "Why in Hell would I blow my money on that" category.
If it has a remote control I expect to be able to shit from across the room.
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If it has a remote control I expect to be able to shit from across the room.
ARemote control from the next room for the water spray would be fun the first time some who doesnt know about it has a seat.
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Definitely in my "Why in Hell would I blow my money on that" category.
Me either. I like the tried and true design of John Crapper. It even works when the power goes out unlike that touch screen toilet.
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Me either. I like the tried and true design of John Crapper. It even works when the power goes out unlike that touch screen toilet.
Good point.
And with the EPA playing globull warming cop with the coal fired power plants nationwide, power outages will become more frequent.