The hack requires a little plumbing know how and some circuitry work, which makes it slightly harder than your normal DIY project. To help you and your pets out, Tsruzik has put together some kits for order. Prices range from $10 to $125.

The end product works a lot like those sinks that automatically turn on when you waive your hands under them—except instead of detecting hands, it detects cats. Tsruzik has even thrown in an optional “people detector” so that the faucet won't run every time a person walks by. Check out the video to see some cute kittie drinking action:
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That's where we've seen this before. Saturday Night Live, about ten years ago.

Sure, other cultures have different levels of privacy expectations, and the toilet's site even mentions a $1400 price, but something's fishy here. Its maker claims a single flush will save water, but that's obviously bullshit because there still needs to be enough water to fill both bowls.

The TwoDaLoo is being offered to wholesalers in a minimum order of 12 units, but this can't be for real. For instance, where do the TV and iPod dock go? We're thinking the Chinese who created this graphic (because there's only one view of it, and it's looking a whole lot like a Photoshop job to us) either have a low, cynical opinion of Americans, a warped yet derivative sense of humor, or both. [WiseRep, via bb Gadgets]

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]

Its motion control interface lets you control the flow by pointing at what you want, and you can even control the temperature of the water with a nonchalant wave of your hand. In the middle of its selector dial, it shows you the water temperature in a digital readout. This is one fab-looking faucet with its LED-lit edges, but it might be a bit inconvenient to plug the thing in when you're installing it, since it requires a 12-volt DC power supply. It might be worth it to amaze your clean-freak friends. [Born Rich]

Toto has been in a competition with Matsushita in Japan to make the most efficient toilet, where Matsushita had a 5.7 liter-per-flush toilet released late last year, but now Toto roars back with this Neorest Hybrid Series. The company didn't announce pricing just yet, but if this one is in line with Toto's other Neorest toilets, it will probably start around $4000. [Far East Gizmos]

This silly device gives you effortless control of that tremendously heavy and difficult-to-lift toilet seat by using a foot switch that raises the seat as you approach the john and lowers it back down when you're through. Apparently you must keep your foot on the pedal for the seat to remain up, which we see as a slight inconvenience.

Really, though, why can't we guys just remember to put the seat down when we're done? Are we that fucking stupid? Do we need $29.95 device to do this for us? Or is there a bit of injustice involved when males are ordered to lower the seat after they're done?

We're thinking that the mere act of spending $29.95 might serve as a reminder to raise and lower the seat properly. But then, there are more-civilized members of the male persuasion who have no trouble remembering this at all. – Charlie White

Why didn't you think of this?: The PeaceMaker Toilet Seat Lifter [GearFuse]

Here's a simple yet brilliant design to make your own night vision toilet light out of couple of plastic bottle caps, a 3-volt LED, a button cell battery, a penny and a paper clip that results in a perfectly functional night vision toilet light that operates with a crude gravity switch.

So you can either make this tiny light to mark your path, illuminating your target as soon as you lift the seat, or you could take your chances and rely on dead reckoning and a perfectly unbent penis position. Hey, you could always get yourself a Jonny Glow, or one of those fancy Kohler toilets with built-in lighting.

Or wait, there's one more solution: you could be like some of our girlie men commentators and sit down to pee. Your choice, guys. – Charlie White

Night Vision Toilet [Instructables]

You can also mount a second control elsewhere in the bathroom, so you can start your shower or run your bath from a distance, getting it all warmed up for you to simply step in. Now if they could just hook this up to a smart home control unit, we could get this thing running from the bed. – Charlie White

Product Page [Ondine, via Oh Gizmo]

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]

Yep, it's got it all. Close yourself up in this baby with just your head sticking out, and emerge a while later feeling good as new. Looks like some good clean fun. – Charlie White

Product Page [NeoQi, via Born Rich]

The DTV also links up to Kohler's sophisticated multihead shower systems, its touchscreen allowing you to individually control pressure and temperature on up to eight shower heads. Better save up your money, though, because the controller alone costs $2000, not including a rather involved installation of all those shower heads and plumbing hardware. And then you'll have to pay for all those millions of gallons of hot water.

Kohler DTV - Next-Gen Shower [OhGizmo]

Want to know what it takes to remove a cellphone from inside of a toilet? Read on...

After the plunging, and dumping some "pipe safe" product called RidX down there, you ride the snake. But the snake hits something hard, and that's when you know it's trouble.

The next step is to dump liquid laundry detergent down the drain. This method has worked before for Luis, our amazing handyman. Tide works, whatever you've got handy. The idea is that you might be able to lubricate the phone enough to dislodge it. So, dump some detergent in there, flush. And then dump some more right near the end of the flush. Then take the snake and roto with all your might. Keep jamming it in there deep. Push hard enough and you might even break the object enough to send it full fathom five. But we had no such luck.

The only choice left is to unbolt the toilet from the floor. Now things get messy. Dirty water everywhere. And you get a peek at the hole that carries away all your waste. It's not pretty—as you can see.

The work is not done yet. Once you've got that porcelain beauty on its side, the object is still stuck up in there. Luis didn't believe that it was a cellphone. He'd never seen nor heard of such a thing happening before. So he ran the snake back in there again. Did some work with his hands and finally the phone kerplunked out the bowl and onto the floor. He lodged the phone back into the toilet pipe for the winning picture.

The phone held up pretty well considering the beating it took. Don't you think?