For all of who have read Kenneth Grahame’s ‘wind in
the Willows” (or seen the movie), we fondly remember Mr. Toad’s discovery of
the automobile after one had driven his new caravan off the road. Recall, he
just sat in the road quietly murmuring “Poop, poop.”
He was more far seeing than I thought when I first
read the story. Now the Japanese company TOTO has unveiled it new ultra green
motor tricycle that any Mr. Toad would be proud to own. Ultra green? Which
fuel? Human waste, so riders can go “poop, poop all the way down the High
street.
It is equipped with a bio-digesting toilet as the
seat so one can poop–and–go with the minimum of delay. No longer will you need
to take your mother sage advice “to go before you go.”
The inaugural journey is a 600 mile marathon
starting at Kyoto and pooping their way through Kobe to end up at Tokyo, pooped
out I would guess. The machine is call the Toilet Bike Neo and just in case one
might feel a little isolated riding one’s new Neo, it will talk to one and play
music. I’m unsure when it will talk or play music, but it would make sense if it
is sensitive to your performance at the time. After all, there is a time for a
friendly chat and there is a time for loud background music.
- http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/10/poop-powered-toilet-bike-toto-japan.php
- http://tototalk.jp/top.html
