{"id":19923,"date":"2013-04-20T10:13:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T15:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19923"},"modified":"2013-04-20T10:15:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T15:15:19","slug":"first-world-problem-defined-high-tech-toilet-faces-technological-obsolescence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/04\/20\/first-world-problem-defined-high-tech-toilet-faces-technological-obsolescence\/","title":{"rendered":"First world problem defined &#8211; high tech toilet faces technological obsolescence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Techhive<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techhive.com\/article\/2035764\/your-6000-numi-toilet-is-already-obsolete.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Newman<\/a> has, uh, the dirt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everyone knows the old axiom about consumer electronics: The rapid pace of technology quickly renders your new tech toys obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that not even high-tech toilets are immune from that truism. Kohler, which two years ago released its luxurious $6000 Numi toilet, has just announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.kohler.com\/us\/KOHLER-Numi-Comfort-Height-Toilet-Upgrades-Enhance-User-Experience\/content\/CNT18200062.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the second-generation model<\/a>, and it adds some essential upgrades not found in the current hardware.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/225391\/techie_toilet_ships_in_april.html\" target=\"_blank\">Numi first made waves in 2011<\/a> for its built-in speakers, FM radio, MP3 player and accompanying touch screen remote control, as well its hands-free operation and built-in bidet with \u201cintegrated dryer.\u201d Equally noteworthy was the Numi\u2019s striking design, and Kohler\u2019s bizarre suggestion that the rich and famous should heed nature\u2019s call <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kohler.com\/numi\/\" target=\"_blank\">in full view of nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><div id=\"attachment_19924\" style=\"width: 589px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19924\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Kohler-Numi-ad-image.jpg\" alt=\"Kohler\u2019s promotional material for the Numi suggests that when you\u2019ve spent $6000 on a toilet, you want to make sure it\u2019s in full view of the neighbors.\" width=\"579\" height=\"406\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Kohler-Numi-ad-image.jpg 579w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Kohler-Numi-ad-image-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Kohler-Numi-ad-image-480x336.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kohler\u2019s promotional material for the Numi suggests that when you\u2019ve spent $6000 on a toilet, you want to make sure it\u2019s in full view of the neighbors.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techhive&#8216;s Jared Newman has, uh, the dirt: Everyone knows the old axiom about consumer electronics: The rapid pace of technology quickly renders your new tech toys obsolete. It turns out that not even high-tech toilets are immune from that truism. Kohler, which two years ago released its luxurious $6000 Numi toilet, has just announced the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-19923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-absurd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5bl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19923"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19928,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19923\/revisions\/19928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}