One of the things that amused me on my couple of trips to Japan has been some of the amazing toilet technology. Things like heated seats, water jets to clean your bum, noise suppressors and deodorisers.
But now they’ve excelled themselves – with electronic toilet games.
Four types of "Toylets” games are available at four male facilities in pubs and game arcades, in a test project aimed at drawing attention to digital ads. Each urinal is fitted with a pressure sensor and an eye-level digital display, with ads shown after the games are played.
Games include Graffiti Eraser in which a user tries to aim at the pressure sensor and erase virtual graffiti on the display. Then there’s Mannekin Pis, which measures the volume of the user’s stream, and The North Wind and The Sun and Me, in which the strength of a urine stream determines the extent to which a virtual girl’s skirt gets blown up by a digital wind. Splashing Battle! pits the user against the previous urinal user in terms of stream strength. Now there’s a challenge!
Beats pissing up the wall to see how high you can reach, I suppose.
the Japanese have a wacky wacky sense of humour!