No one makes toilets like the Japanese. Using a keypad, you can raise the seat or control its temperature, flush from across the room, or gently spray water, then blow-dry, your most intimate of areas. And that's not all. If you know you're about to make a natural but unnaturally loud noise, you can drown it out by pressing another button to create an equally loud flushing sound. But America's bathrooms, flush with new amenities, also are growing more complicated, with so much circuitry you'd think they were kitchens.
Today there are bathtubs with overhead lights.
With stereos and TVs. There are steam showers to open clogged pores. There are showers with waterfall sprays. That was nothing. Today's homeowners can throw money down the toilet like never before.