Hygiene: The Toto Toilet

The $5000 Toto Washlet toilet comes with built-in bidets. Of three videos on the company site, the most entertaining shows the device being used by a ghost-like person who is having a fine time enjoying the Washlet's "rear cleanse" and "front cleanse" (available with gentle massage and pulsating water, plus tushy dryer adjustable to three temperatures). The seat is also heated, "the way nature intended it," but the demo of a battery operated portable Washlet reveals that version of the device doesn't heat the water. The site's "Press Pavilion" promises "press releases, product shots, photography, B-roll and much more." <http://www.washlet.com/default.asp>