{"id":53,"date":"2002-10-09T16:14:37","date_gmt":"2002-10-09T16:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=53"},"modified":"2016-01-14T16:56:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T00:56:48","slug":"japans-toilet-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/10\/09\/japans-toilet-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Toilet Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to post a picture of one of the better toilet seat control systems from Japan. In the meantime, enjoy this article:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/10\/08\/international\/asia\/08JAPA.html\">Japanese Masters Get Closer to the Toilet Nirvana<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Japan&#8217;s toilet wars started in February, when Matsushita engineers here unveiled a toilet seat equipped with electrodes that send a mild electric charge through the user&#8217;s buttocks, yielding a digital measurement of body-fat ratio.<\/p>\n<p>Unimpressed, engineers from a rival company, Inax, counterattacked in April with a toilet that glows in the dark and whirs up its lid after an infrared sensor detects a human being. When in use, the toilet plays any of six soundtracks, including chirping birds, rushing water, tinkling wind chimes, or the strumming of a traditional Japanese harp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(NOTE: New York Times articles require free registration).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to post a picture of one of the better toilet seat control systems from Japan. In the meantime, enjoy this article: Japanese Masters Get Closer to the Toilet Nirvana Japan&#8217;s toilet wars started in February, when Matsushita engineers here unveiled a toilet seat equipped with electrodes that send a mild electric charge&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/10\/09\/japans-toilet-wars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan&#8217;s Toilet Wars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-japan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}