SFist: Behold the Google Office Toilet

aj

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:31:21 -0800

These things are brilliant.

jimmyletters

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:33:16 -0800

Judging from the tile, that one's in the SF office, but they're installed on most every toilet in the plex too. It's a nice perk, though the motivation may in part have been to reduce toilet paper consumption -- supposedly warming up a bit of water uses less energy/carbon/etc than goes into the paper production.

Belgand

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:13:22 -0800

Is this going in at the SF offices or only at the Googleplex? Better ask my friend who works there. I mean, forget about the great food... I want to go by just to try out their fabulous toilets.

uggie

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:28:29 -0800

Toto is a company from Japan? I thought they were from GERMANY. Ever use a bathroom in Germany - always bleached clean

mariconsoy

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:22:49 -0800

I already have a clean wand.

wsanders

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:08:13 -0800

I'm not sure that I would use the phrase "hope for the best!" with respect to my private parts. OTOH the Japanese are very good at cute little pictures that get the point across very well.

HappyChandler

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:46:41 -0800

That's an improvement over the ones in Japan, which didn't have English. I would just sort of press buttons and hope for the best!

Akit

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:41:06 -0800

That industrial TP is terrible. Super thin, and rough as hell. Ever seen some of the rolls, sometimes they are HUGE!

wsanders

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:30:26 -0800

Over here in SaBu in the Adam Grant Building we have better TP than I have at home. However, the custodian does fill up the hand soap dispensers with PineSol, so it's a tradeoff.

Olsonist

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:27:59 -0800

You're shitting me.

Brock Keeling

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:19:29 -0800

"toiletty little fingers." heh.

wsanders

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:16:17 -0800

Eeuuuww, who else has been touching that "Emergency Stop" button with their toiletty little fingers.

jacksevanroo

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:14:37 -0800

Top notch, Google. This shows that you really care about your employees. My company provides the worst toilet paper that man ever created. How am I supposed to really clean up back there? Whoever came up with the idea to clean your backside with a dry piece of paper was cruel indeed.

Brock Keeling

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:12:36 -0800

Ick.

Generic

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:09:14 -0800

This all come back to Brock's well-documented aversion to crotch rot.

Bushy Hyde

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:01:24 -0800

Pfft, the real reason for that console is to hide the gloryhole. An ingenious idea I might add.

hollyMmm

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:25:40 -0800

just looking at it makes me want to take a shit

withak

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:24:25 -0800

Needs more pictures of the bowl itself.

Akit

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:15:42 -0800

It reminded me of that summer reality program "I Survived a Japanese Gameshow" where one of the people entered their new home and was yelling out that the toilet had a remote control.

travin

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:05:12 -0800

plug wrote: ... i dont need robotic help in that channel. > Don't knock it 'til ya try it. =0)

Greg

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:59:32 -0800

this reminded me of the episode of the simpsons when they goto Japan and Homer uses the high tech toilet, which not only cleaned him up but recommended "Americatown" restaurant for the family.

jwoode

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:51:54 -0800

we used to have one in our office (not quite as deluxe a model) and it made the work day so much more enjoyable. you'll never go back to the brutal world of toilet paper. btw, the "wand" refers to the stick that comes out which sprays the water, then retracts back inside to hide. is washes itself off so that nothing, um, sticks onto it. brilliant i tell you.

the_absentee

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:48:40 -0800

There are enough buttons on that thing to have a billing number for time spent 'cleaning oneself'.

Plug1

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:17:17 -0800

call me old fashioned, but not sure how i feel about "wand cleaning." i dont need robotic help in that channel. it would be cool if they could hook up wi-fi so i could twitter on the shitter, though.

bluecanary

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:17:12 -0800

Maybe I'm just prissy, but a bidet in your own home is one thing, but using a public one just skeeves me out for some reason. I know there's no logic to it, but eww.

Akit

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:08:21 -0800

When will Home Depot start selling those Japanese toilets with a remote control?