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Adrian Jajcaj
November 18, 2021 at 7:26 pm
😎
GV DHEERAJ
November 18, 2021 at 7:34 pm
So they will record you pooping in the future
ArchOfWinter
November 18, 2021 at 7:34 pm
In certain coastal cities, like Hong Kong, sea water is used for flushing toilet. Since it is already not drinkable, the treatment for the water intake takes less electricity and chemicals. It makes treating waste fresh water a lot cheaper too since all the toilet waste are treated separately. While setting up three separate water systems, fresh water, salt water, and storm drains, is expensive at first, it save money in the long run.
Celestine Morningstar
November 18, 2021 at 7:50 pm
My college used reclaimed and cleaned graywater in the restroom sinks and toilets. While signs along the lines of “Don’t drink the sink water” had to be posted, it otherwise worked out fine. I live in a desert and so we don’t really have the option of seawater, but based on experience I do agree that non-potable flush water is a good idea.
Royal Rose
November 18, 2021 at 7:37 pm
The house we live in is only about 50 years old and we just had to shell out thousands to replace the ENTIRE septic system. The ENTIRE THING! It took months and thats just for our own house… a house thats only 50 years old. These things truly weren’t made to last when initially built. Our new septic system is top of the line now and shouldn’t need even maintenance for 100+ years but my god, its SO expensive.
mayor ofswag
November 18, 2021 at 11:44 pm
how much we talking?
Mohammed Mangera
November 19, 2021 at 12:11 am
@mayor ofswag SO expensive! 😉
epic.
November 18, 2021 at 7:37 pm
Yo
Omaer 1
November 18, 2021 at 7:41 pm
Very Nice! Get Good! MashAllah(SWT). ASTAGHFIRULLAH(SWT).
Omaer 1
November 18, 2021 at 7:41 pm
ALHAMDULILLAH(SWT), ASTAGHFIRULLAH(SWT).
MadeOnEarth
November 18, 2021 at 8:00 pm
Toilet on the floor wow that’s so ridiculous
sweatyrobot
November 18, 2021 at 8:24 pm
I took a dump after watching this.
Peter Rogati III
November 18, 2021 at 8:25 pm
Watch the most sophisticated AI be integrated into the toilet, become self aware, and then suffer for eternity analyzing human waste.
GeL
November 18, 2021 at 8:35 pm
I agree
toilets & the typical school setting hasn’t changed for over a hundred years….we do need to readjust our psyche about many things we’ve just become unconsciously stuck in
Sweet Toother
November 18, 2021 at 9:10 pm
I’m not surprised she mentioned a Dutch solution, but I am surprised she didn’t mention composting toilets.
m
November 18, 2021 at 9:16 pm
Urinals should be installed in homes to save billions of gallons of potable water.
me5ng3
November 18, 2021 at 9:39 pm
3:10 you’re referencing those smart gadgets that help reduce the flooding. How do they do that? You haven’t explained what exactly they even do to reduce floodings.
David Nelson-Leang
November 18, 2021 at 9:44 pm
this shits crazyyy
أميرة الرقص.dancing princess
November 18, 2021 at 9:49 pm
Be a great man 💪 so that he can fulfill every desire of his parents ✌…..
Chen
November 18, 2021 at 10:12 pm
She da fece fanatic
loveforeignaccents
November 18, 2021 at 10:17 pm
I don’t like not being able to see how many dislikes are on these videos now.
Wyatt Rownd
November 19, 2021 at 12:05 am
?
Mohammed Mangera
November 19, 2021 at 12:14 am
93 dislikes currently
JG
November 18, 2021 at 10:42 pm
Flash warning please
Sara Akram
November 18, 2021 at 10:49 pm
The title reminds me of pewdiepie’s sink presentation video
vX0tiC -
November 18, 2021 at 10:51 pm
2:08 razer toilet
Talha Ibis
November 19, 2021 at 12:17 am
Everyone does it – No one wants to talk about it
Nea
November 19, 2021 at 12:48 am
So naive and inaccurate.
Facade_Games
November 19, 2021 at 12:50 am
I just stopped up a toilet just now. What great timing.
Pogo 2207
November 19, 2021 at 1:03 am
*WARNING* don’t watch this video while eating.
mybeautifuldistress
November 19, 2021 at 11:13 am
This is very interesting
C G
November 19, 2021 at 12:13 pm
Very interesting video! I have heard of the compost toilets as well and I’m interested where humanity will end up with it’s waste.
Haylie R. Wilson
November 19, 2021 at 1:47 pm
I would say my biggest fear isn’t human waste, but the cleaning chemicals going down our drains
Dear MistyAnn
November 19, 2021 at 2:30 pm
The world is need of SO MANY upgrades starting with the foundation and the structures that were built upon the last one.
Netflix 2021
November 19, 2021 at 2:43 pm
Smart Toilets of the future: Stop eating chillis! And if you do, drink more water!
Ken Lu
November 19, 2021 at 3:52 pm
Coming soon… the *Apple iShat*
No handles. No visible poo-poo exit hole. Just a chair that looks like a lego block in white.
You approach the ‘block’ and it automatically conforms to your a** size/dimension like a Tony Stark Iron Man suit as you sit.
It then opens the poo-poo exit hole based on your weight / “package size”.
An augmented reality display appears showing you in 3D-form, complete with details like how much force to push or how much you need to ‘unload’.
Once you’re done with your business, just say “Siri, I’m done.”
Siri: “Okay. Would you like me to wash your a**?” _Yes!_
Siri then begins the procedure of washing your a** with high tech lasers that cleans every single atom and molecule of crap on you. 99.9% clean.
The Apple iShat.
Revolutionary. Freeing. Revolting.
Fandyllic
November 19, 2021 at 4:13 pm
I found this video mildly racist, since while it features aspects of Asia in the video, there is no mention of Asian efforts and technology on this subject… I mean in Japan, they probably have toilets that can read your mind by now…
Tilleruez
November 19, 2021 at 4:34 pm
It’s because of Piewdiepie’s video about sinks, isn’t it?
TurnedHero
November 19, 2021 at 5:20 pm
I swear I was just thinking about why the toilet hasn’t been improved upon in the last 100 years 😂
max playne
November 19, 2021 at 5:48 pm
dislike
thedoneeye
November 19, 2021 at 6:35 pm
Seeing the high tech toilets reminded me of an episode of ‘The Simpsons’ where they went to Japan. They encountered one that said “I am honored to receive your waste’ when the lid was opened.
AkarnaPrime
November 19, 2021 at 7:15 pm
Indians don’t have this problem. 😄
ishootshxt
November 19, 2021 at 7:19 pm
Belly bones turtle toes ..too too toodle loo loo…doo doo
Farren And my pets
November 19, 2021 at 7:48 pm
Watching this on the toilet
Phil Nolan
November 19, 2021 at 8:48 pm
In Tokyo there’s a toilet museum.
Phil Nolan
November 19, 2021 at 8:56 pm
This is in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo. It’s actually more about the safety of the room, rather than the toilet. People, women especially, can see in the restroom and know that there is nobody in there waiting to attack them before they go in. Then our close the glass becomes opaque when they’re using it.
Haunani Pao
November 19, 2021 at 9:30 pm
I really am glad to see someone talking about this because we need to DO our waste management sustainable and just plain better. We owe it to ourselves to think towards the future. Wired, do more of these stories.
John Foley
November 19, 2021 at 9:38 pm
Anyone else watching this on the toilet?
J G
November 19, 2021 at 10:02 pm
A toilet that diagnosis’s “changes” in user’s health?
“The Crapatron 5000?”
Antonio Gallaccio
November 19, 2021 at 10:13 pm
Don’t forget, toilets are what has allowed life expectancy and longevity to increase through time.
javad khan
November 19, 2021 at 10:14 pm
8 years 😂😂😂😂😂
Simon Eminger
November 19, 2021 at 11:31 pm
wasnt the roman cloaca maxima the first big sewage system?
Dylan Hickey
November 20, 2021 at 12:31 am
Been using a Natures Head Composting toilet for a few months. Alternative toilets are awesome!! They’ll be even more awesome when a plastic composting toilet doesn’t cost 10x what a normal porcelain throne costs lol
Gravity SIave
November 20, 2021 at 12:56 am
I just want a machine that takes car of you butt like a car wash.
John Faulkner
November 20, 2021 at 1:17 am
first world problems
Kaizo Gaia
November 20, 2021 at 1:56 am
RGB toilet, yes, I’m a gaymer
John Piper
November 20, 2021 at 2:15 am
How did I end up here?
Wolf
November 20, 2021 at 2:21 am
She spend 8 years researching toilets and that it needs an upgrade… idk what to say lul. Both impressive and funny
El Guapo
November 20, 2021 at 2:48 am
Ahh, this lady seems to be ignorant to all the drugs and contagions that can’t be filtered out with water treatment plants.
holydrones
November 20, 2021 at 2:53 am
In the UK, we just let our sewerage go into the nearest river.
SkippyPlays
November 20, 2021 at 3:08 am
what do you do for living?
*i study toilets*
ItsAPerfectionist *
November 20, 2021 at 3:08 am
Why on earth would you study toilets?? Like. What pushes you to that point???
Manteo AC23
November 20, 2021 at 4:19 am
I’d agree with what is said about “the yuk factor” if almost say just don’t tell ppl about it cause it really isn’t a question of if we should cause we need to recycle all our water
Prince Mahin
November 20, 2021 at 4:40 am
india still don’t have toilet , they use the open air toilet
Ashley Madison[H0rny H0usewife]
November 20, 2021 at 4:43 am
In certain coastal cities, like Hong Kong, sea water is used for flushing toilet. Since it is already not drinkable, the treatment for the water intake takes less electricity and chemicals. It makes treating waste fresh water a lot cheaper too since all the toilet waste are treated separately. While setting up three separate water systems, fresh water, salt water, and storm drains, is expensive at first, it save money in the long run.
Lynn Leigha
November 20, 2021 at 5:59 am
If it ain’t broke..
Charley Edwards
November 20, 2021 at 6:09 am
this is insane…. yes i agree its a good idea to keep developing things including the sewage system but seperating solid and liquid waste???? are you serious?? imaging solid waste???? actually?????? sure maybe in some very specific fringe uses but the toilet works just fine for the rest of us………… clean it and send it back into the water table dont we weird, and play with it……. there are way better ways to produce heat
Saajid Ali Khan
November 20, 2021 at 6:34 am
Pretty sure Razor is going to come out with a GAMER RGB toilet
pterror
November 20, 2021 at 7:53 am
Waiting for Toilet 2.0 update 😬
SilentSpawn
November 20, 2021 at 8:19 am
interesting topic but one thing left me with weird feeling 5:54 sounds like manipulation
Mahjabeenh Hassan
November 20, 2021 at 10:40 am
I’m not sure if people are beng sarcastic in the comments.
you are breathtaking !
November 20, 2021 at 11:02 am
Squatting toilet is the best. Squatting toilet no 1#
mark
November 20, 2021 at 2:22 pm
wired: toilet sucks
pewdiepie: sink stinks
Momo
November 20, 2021 at 5:09 pm
2:08 imagine taking a dump and a disco party going on under u 😂
Kuran Nasir
November 20, 2021 at 8:29 pm
WIRED must have spent thousands of dollars on the B-roll used in this video. There must have been a dozen different clips of people just chugging water.
donke
November 20, 2021 at 9:25 pm
toilet lore
Jim
November 20, 2021 at 10:33 pm
2:07
“What is my purpose?”
You scan turds
Michael Nelson
November 21, 2021 at 1:33 am
This is crazy and this is important.
Electricity taster
November 21, 2021 at 2:31 am
For the love of all that is holy remove the possibility of splashback aka Poseidon’s kiss.
Shayan Aamir
November 21, 2021 at 5:39 am
Scrubs did Dr.Toilet better
Jan Ceazar Ebelte
November 21, 2021 at 6:35 am
I also have an idea for the toilet to help save water and to use the resources more efficiently. It’s always in the back of my head. It’s because I really want to change a bit in the world
John Smith
November 21, 2021 at 6:42 am
I will not eat the bugs, I won’t sleep in the pods, I will flush the toilet with water.
duhdire
November 21, 2021 at 10:46 am
Why is nobody talking about Singapore’s waste water solution, NEWater? It is pretty cool based on what I have researched. 💦
The Dorito
November 21, 2021 at 12:12 pm
Yes a toilet that wipes for you
Matt White-0
November 21, 2021 at 1:33 pm
Why can’t the shower water be used to flush out toilets
Andres Marquez
November 21, 2021 at 5:06 pm
Yea, but wtf with the poo pics, lmao
KAKASHI HATAKE
November 21, 2021 at 8:15 pm
Indian railways started this biotoilet thing in trains which sucks up all the stuff using negative pressure and uses only 1.5litre of water
All that is managed by an electric button like on a flight so no water.is wasted
VitaKet
November 21, 2021 at 9:00 pm
The first sewer system was built LONG before that Rome… not London.
Sam Francisco
November 22, 2021 at 1:17 am
Ground water bottled water should be banned. Why should we pay for water that belongs to the citizens ?
Nick Wancho
November 22, 2021 at 1:19 am
How does a woman who does this for a living pronounce it incorrectly. Pot a ble. Like pot a bowl
And orange county are water is disgusting. Water on the marine Corp base tastes horrible. Like it’s full of bleach and other chemicals.
Daniel Valle Duarte
November 22, 2021 at 1:20 am
Please build waterless urinals everywhere, ones that don’t splash your khakis
Denise Findlay
November 22, 2021 at 5:36 am
The Netherlands toilette is like the airplane toilette or that pressured vacuum thing, i love that option
Misses Witch
November 22, 2021 at 10:26 am
This is doable but it’d now be a huge megaproject. We did do this in the past but there were far fewer people then, Leading a much less chaotic lifestyle leaving the time and space for this to happen.
Bogdan Bogdan
November 22, 2021 at 10:43 am
How dare you insult my toilet.
Jay Pazare
November 22, 2021 at 11:00 am
Yeah but you can’t really put those directly in the land because it’s not just “pee and poo” it’s also has detergent which I’m pretty sure “kills” any kind of soil.
M.A Man
November 22, 2021 at 2:55 pm
poo imaging🤣🤣🤣
Raymarj
November 22, 2021 at 2:56 pm
Did anyone notice the girl looked like Charlie putt?
potawatadingdong
November 22, 2021 at 6:49 pm
The infrastructure is going to have a hard time supporting anything with so many people on the planet. We seriously need to start looking at population control. It’s the main source of most of the world’s problems yet it’s completely ignored.
Seaque
November 22, 2021 at 10:04 pm
i think France did it in the 1800’s, right? in Paris? Either it’s true or Victor Hugo was bullshitting the entire time in Les Miserables.
David S.
November 22, 2021 at 10:12 pm
I get that your speaking about water closets and matters involving them, but there is no need for vulgar language. Unsubscribed.
그대여안녕하신가
November 23, 2021 at 12:26 am
Lol so we go back to the era of parasites in our food!! Even more in our poops!!
aka OK
November 23, 2021 at 5:01 am
wait a minute, how hard can it be to put some sort of sifting-like layer in the toilet? As in, liquid goes through (to urine comparment) and the solids stay on the “rack”, easily transferable using a movable rack into some other storage…
Am I missing some critical aspect? It just seems a lot simpler than she’s suggesting it, design wise…
kaique Bustamante
November 23, 2021 at 9:55 am
Resuming “we are trying to adress a problem that doesnt exist” lol
Afnan Nor
November 23, 2021 at 12:21 pm
Cant believe they dont talk about Singapore in this vid hahaha
Santosh P
November 23, 2021 at 6:58 pm
Simply Yes
sai kumar
November 24, 2021 at 2:45 am
Stupid, sewage water is non drinkable water instead use that water in agricultural. To make drink water frow sewage need more chemicals after you get ph leveled but water smells like chemicals which damage kidney and again go to private hospital for treatment all corporates corrupted people you are
zebredpooding
November 24, 2021 at 4:09 am
My boyfriend and I have a scat fetish so we often consume each others waste.
knicker
November 24, 2021 at 4:37 pm
Nice. This comment should be pinned
Anita Lim
November 24, 2021 at 7:42 am
Never thought of this, great idea
Tershen Naidoo
November 24, 2021 at 12:50 pm
I came here thinking the toilet itself would be redesigned, and left thinking about the infrastructure behind it. Both are crucial things not many of us think about. Kudos to WIRED and the researcher for sharing this 👏
GamingOfTheLegend
November 24, 2021 at 2:23 pm
Fun fact: the toilet that you have to squat on at 0:05 is better than the standard toilet that you sit on because i think it makes your bowels loose which makes it easier for you poo to come out.
Dan
November 24, 2021 at 9:09 pm
What if diarrhea sprays on your ankles 🤔
markun petrucci
November 24, 2021 at 2:52 pm
No septic tank?
MicrowavablePotato
November 24, 2021 at 4:57 pm
Screw toilets. Printers need a major upgrade!
Srijan Senger
November 24, 2021 at 6:09 pm
Why am I here
Srijan Senger
November 24, 2021 at 6:09 pm
Toilet ek prem katha
Ryan ate Bryan
November 24, 2021 at 7:40 pm
Agreed.
LeftistUprising
November 24, 2021 at 11:27 pm
Believe me – there is no use for “biocrude”, and it’ll never be a gasoline. This lady speaks like a lobbyist.
Ping Pong
November 25, 2021 at 6:21 am
Anyone using the toilet right now🚽?
noah geerdink
November 25, 2021 at 9:25 am
it’s so annoying how these news channels cut up interviews to create the narrative. it sounds really unnatural.
Karthavya
November 25, 2021 at 11:33 am
why not produce flammable gas outta it?
David Perry
November 25, 2021 at 1:58 pm
I like the Japanese techno toilet
Luiz Henrique Franco
November 25, 2021 at 3:41 pm
Well, a more easier solution would be pooping and burying in your backyard, but I guess no one wants to do this hahahaha
Anuja Nimesh
November 25, 2021 at 6:19 pm
“Images your poo”
EWWWWWWWW
Zio Wee
November 26, 2021 at 6:34 am
So, US is the developed nation with resource-wasteful infrastructure and no universal healthcare. Got it.
Sangram 17
November 26, 2021 at 11:52 am
I have decided that i want to be a toilet scientist when i grow up
BatCaveOz
November 26, 2021 at 12:48 pm
The current system is fine. No need to panic.
cabaji
November 26, 2021 at 1:03 pm
Doctor poo…nice
RASWANTH KRISHNA
November 26, 2021 at 4:26 pm
Wait until it become so advance that someone hacks your toilet and rickroll song starts playing when you flush your toilet
Solutions4u
November 26, 2021 at 6:30 pm
Aerith voice
promit banerjee
November 27, 2021 at 7:22 am
Most indian houses have the concept of Double Chamber Septic Tanks.
Its used as compost.
RJ Long
November 27, 2021 at 8:10 am
Shits crazy.
Abby
November 27, 2021 at 6:29 pm
Now this is some interesting S#!t
Robert Phillips
November 27, 2021 at 8:26 pm
The modern flush toilet was invented by a man named Crapper.
Suraj Kumar Behera
November 28, 2021 at 12:44 am
Oh my God…… they have been drinking their toilet water……🤣
bboy95ify
November 28, 2021 at 4:10 am
I swear pwediepie made a video about the toilet similar to this but not so serious 😂😂😂
SeekoGT
November 28, 2021 at 5:57 am
I REALLY hate to be this immature, but…. 2:06 YOOOOOOOOOOOOO! lmao
empireravenshadow5
November 28, 2021 at 7:53 am
I always poo in the river nearby and pee into the trash can. Don’t need toilets.
Maxwell Woodhouse
November 28, 2021 at 8:40 am
Permaculture!
Barshan Roy
November 28, 2021 at 11:05 am
Indian toilets are the best ,a few design modifications are required which has the potential to make it perfect.
Ventus Pri
November 28, 2021 at 11:06 am
Why AMERICAN Toilet Needs an Upgrade | WIRED
cat
November 28, 2021 at 1:41 pm
Thank you for reminding me what a toilet is in the intro. I almost forgot what a toilet was.
clever username
November 29, 2021 at 12:39 am
Hard to take seriously when they say “pee” and “poo”
Bret Claar
November 29, 2021 at 2:44 am
I don’t trust anyone spending 8 years studying toilets.
muhammad hamzah
November 29, 2021 at 3:55 am
Moral of the story: Never ever fix something that works just fine
TJP projects
November 29, 2021 at 8:30 am
Pfft, just have a nuclear reactor in your chest so you don’t need to eat. It’s simple and EZ.
Ranadeep
November 29, 2021 at 2:41 pm
5:03
Manuel Friend
November 30, 2021 at 5:55 am
Only problem with using human waste for compost, is most western countries have terrible diets and I’m not sure you really want to be using that.
Ashish
November 30, 2021 at 1:47 pm
sensors in the toilet is the future.
Martin Dobrev
November 30, 2021 at 4:15 pm
we dont need no upgrades we halready have it upgraded and advanced
Martin Dobrev
November 30, 2021 at 4:16 pm
we just need to relief ourselves outdoors easy as that
Mary Rose Kent
December 1, 2021 at 12:29 am
Ghastly vocal fry—UNWATCHABLE!