Subatomic Japanese Toilet
Posted by John Brownlee
If there was one thing that was clear during our adventures in Tokyo it’s the fact that the Japanese love their toilets. Our hotel room featured one of those high-tech toilets Isaac Asimov was always writing about, with a vacuum flush setting capable of unspooling the bowels through the anus and a laser-guided dingleberry removal system. Clearly, toilet technology is something the Japanese take seriously.
And now Japan has invented the world’s first subatomic toilet, suitable for the grunting evacuations of dust mites. The photograph above was taken by nanotechnologist Kaito Takahashi and won the “Most Bizarre Award” at a conference on electrons, ions and photo beam technology. Although actually a photograph of an integrated circuit magnified at 15,000 times its original size, it was still christened the “Tiny Toilet.”
‘Chisai Benjo’ — Small Toilet [<3 Yen] : Tokyo Mango
Categories: Ephemera, Japan, Photography, Science
Posted at 10:20 am on October 1, 2007
12 Comments -
Nitpick:
that is not subatomic, which would be impossible. It is on the scale of micrometers at best.
carry on.
Comment by Arielle — October 1, 2007 @ 9:34 pm
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Comment by John Brownlee — October 4, 2007 @ 11:16 am
Loads of atoms there. Yep.
Cool nonetheless!
Comment by dp — October 4, 2007 @ 11:22 am
Microscopic, not subatomic..
Comment by Nathan — October 4, 2007 @ 3:17 pm
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Comment by diggusers — October 4, 2007 @ 5:38 pm
Wow, people who comment on things are really douches. All this guy wants to do is show you something he found cool, hoping that you would enjoy it as well, instead you nit-pick his little scientific errors and tell him what he did wrong.
Screw you guys.
John, thank you for posting this. I enjoyed it.
Comment by Joe — October 9, 2007 @ 8:51 pm
I concur, lay off guys… it’s a freakin’ image of a toilet looking thing, let go and just find some humor in it.
Comment by Nick — October 10, 2007 @ 1:24 pm
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my cat’s breath smells like cat food
Comment by ralphie — October 19, 2007 @ 5:09 pm
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