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Toilet with built-in sink: do your business faster
Multitasking is something that we all need to learn to do in this modern age. Be it talking on the phone while writing an e-mail, reading over a report while scheduling a meeting, or planning your fantasy baseball trades while making love to your girlfriend — things just get done faster when you multitask (well, except for that last example). So I guess it's only natural that multitasking moves into the bathroom, the last room in the house to be hit by the efficiency patrol.
This toilet has a sink built into the tank, allowing you to wash your hands before you're even finished going to the bathroom. In reality, the toilet is designed to save water by recycling the hand-washing water into the toilet bowl, but I prefer to imagine washing my hands or getting a glass of water while I empty my bladder. You don't get to the top by being lazy, people! Get with the program!
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By karpet at 6:58 PM ON 03/06/07
Good concept, sad execution. If this would be your only sink you would have to lean over the bowl to brush your teeth. Not cool. Odds are you would still have an ordinary sink next to this thing. And after about a week you would stop using it, and after about six months it would be flung to the curb just to watch it smash on the ground. Couldn't the concept be done with a little plumbing from the sink trap to the toilet tank? You'll never know its there that way.
Of course, and how else would people be able to brag to thier self rightous friends about saving water!? I think I got it now. Carry on.
Karpet
By karpet at 7:26 PM ON 03/06/07
Ok, I spoke too soon. I watched the video on the company's site, which better illustrated the concept. The faucet only comes on after the toilet is flushed. The faucet is merely a break in the circuit from the supply valve to the tank. The thing I find amusing is that for at least the first few days, users are going to have to fight the feeling that they are wasting water, because the faucet runs until the tank is filled. They aren't wasting anything, but that must be hard for a resource conscious person to watch a faucet run with no one around.
I still won't buy one.
Karpet
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