Dirt, stains, effluent, material, the load, waste, matter. These are the words my tour guides at Toto's toilet factory and research center in Kyushu used to verbally pirouette around what exactly its ...

The company has a gallery in New York's tony SoHo district; one of it's recent releases is named "Gwyneth"; it has near-cult status among the eco-affluent (and Google). We're talking about a toilet ...

I will always remember the first time I walked into a Tokyo bathroom and, with the automatic lift of its lid, a Japanese “smart toilet” happily greeted me. It didn’t end there. Mounted to the wall was ...