The Perfect Design?

The Toilet, recognizable to everyone

So I am sitting with my friends and I ask one of them what I should write this post about.  One of the boys crudely said, "Well, I would start by saying... When I was sitting on the toilet..."  I laughed a bit then got out my computer and thought... wait a minute, that gives me an idea, have you ever sat on a Japanese Toilet?  It is a toilet designed to give all forms of comfort to the user by the means of warmth, personal cleansing, and drying without any effort from the person.  This goes to show how design is Utopian (which is something I have discussed earlier but basically means that design is always searching for the next best thing, it wants to be ideal).  The toilet is a design that is perfectly functional and is an object that every human recognizing and knows how to use.  Designers who developed the Japanese Toilet created a toilet for a person who wants more out of their toilet going experience.  This type of toilet will heat the seat to the temperature you desire, will spray and wash to clean desired areas, and will blow warm air to air dry.  I sort of laughed at the idea of this because why do you need all this extra fancy items in your life, but after I tried one at a friend's house, I realized how great this toilet was!  Then in lecture, when we were watching "Objectified," I had a realization: that Japanese Toilet may be frivolous, but it is a design that improves people's lives.  Even if there is a very small market of people who actually buy the product, that toilet has better the lives of those people.  This was a design that was not made for no reason, there was clearly a need for a better type of toilet.  Now the only question is, will it catch on every where in the world?  Time will only tell.