Gizmodo: bidet

Question of the Day: Would You Prefer a Bidet Over a Regular Toilet Setup?

Sean Fallon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:00:00 EDT

For some reason, bidets have yet to catch on in a big way here in the States. It can be expensive, it takes up space and it may have an effeminate vibe to it, but let me tell you—there ain't nothin' wrong with a good butt washing now and then. Besides, billions of foreigners love it—they can't all be wrong. But what about you? Would you / do you prefer a bidet over a regular toilet?

Inax Bidet Toilet Seats Spray Your Butt in Living Color

Charlie White — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:15:00 EDT

If you want to look into the future, go to Japan, where it's impossible to market a new toilet seat without a bidet attachment inside (otherwise known as a washlet) that squirts water all over your delicate nether regions. Now you can do away with toilet paper in colorful style with these limited-edition toilet seats by interior design company Inax, the company that figured out how to add an SD card reader to a toilet.

These colorful seats are available in Japan for around $1400, but if you wanted one badly enough, you could probably import one of these thrones, install an electric outlet near your toilet, hook the water pipes up to the seat, and you're good to go. So to speak. While the whole idea of a telescoping, self-cleaning magic wand spraying your ass clean seems gross, it sure beats the equivalent of a spreading peanut butter around on a shag carpet with a piece of toilet tissue. [Tokyo Mango]

Kohler C3 Series Toilet Seats Offer Hands-Free Butt-Washing, American Style

Charlie White — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:06:00 EST

Who says the Japanese make all the fancy potties? Kohler has jumped into wash-yer-butt bidet derby with its C3 series toilet seats, using a special "hydra-cleansing wand" (pictured at right) to give you a hands-free alternative to toilet paper.

The C3-200 model ($1300, pictured on the toilet above left) has an in-line heater that warms up that water so your ass-cleaning experience will be more soothing than shocking. It even has a remote control to initiate the whole cleaning and drying process. There's also the model C3-100 ($750, pictured above right) that contains a small tank that heats up the cleansing water, and its controls are located on the side of the seat.

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These swank toilet seats let you adjust the temperature and pressure of that cleaning spray, and there's also a cool blue light that helps with that nighttime urinary aiming problem. Also a nice touch is the way these heated seats quietly lower as if riding on a cushion of air.

Both models offer the ability to select front and rear wash, and you can even make the hydra-cleansing wand pulsate that water on those oh-so-sensitive body parts. That could get interesting rather quickly. The higher-end C3-200 also offers a deodorizing fan, and warm air drying with adjustable temperature and fan speed.

This bidet functionality in toilet seats has been popularized by Toto with its $5K+ NeoRest toilet and so-called "washlet" technology, and Toto also offers various luxo-sport toilet seats with those cool washlet features as well. But now you can get an American-made squirting seat. As with all thrones like this, there's slight problem, though: you'll have to wire an electrical outlet nearby for these babies, but that's the price of progress. – Charlie White

Product Page [Kohler Company]

Portable Bidet with Digital Camera

johnb — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:26:35 EDT

This is too easy. It's like taking candy from a baby. Having nuclear weapons just a couple of blocks up the road have obviously made the South Koreans a little dodgy in the head. Because, I tell ya, as much as I've been searching for a portable bidet in general (and look, it's called Charming), I never would have put it that together with, yes, a digital camera. Again, like shooting fish in a barrel isn't it? The trading site it was found on says it's for "healthy and clean life for women, patients and children" and that it has an "interior insertion type" nozzle. I shudder. Not really sure where the camera fits in, but heck, if it's just for the joke, I'll take it.

Portable Bidet with Digital Camera? [Strange New Products]