Bathrooms are one of the only places where we can expect to have complete privacy. In todays world, we bring technology with us everywhere we go. The bathroom is the last sacred place where some of us leave technology behind and completely disconnect. Not for long...

For a while, determined Japanese companies have been bringing innovation to a niche market; the smart toilet market. They have been up to selling high-tech toilets at exorbitant prices since the 1980s. Meanwhile, on the other end of the globe, the Western world has been ignoring a much-needed toilet upgrade. Some of the earliest innovations in the Japanese toilet industry include heated seats to make you as comfortable as possible, remote controls that let you flush the toilet and close the lid with the press of a button and the use of ultraviolet rays to clean the toilet bowl and get rid of bacteria.

How could AI possibly contribute to improving your toilet? Toilets will now be equipped with Amazons Alexa so you can finally order you it to play music, close the lid, flush etc with voice commands, completely hands-free. These toilets are sold, randing from 1000 up to TOTOs 10000 toilet. TOTO was the first company to create smart toilets and they have mastered this market space. An American based company called Kohler has started making their own range of smart toilets which are becoming increasingly popular in the western world, shifting more people away from using traditional toilets.

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