You SHOULD and MUST show it off to friends considering the $6,000 you just plopped on this bowl. What makes the Inax Regio so special? Probably a few snazzy features that would put your car to shame.

You might not be able to imagine any earthly reason to spend six thousand dollars on a bathroom fixture designed to accept your bodily waste, but that's only because you're not imagining hard enough.

No country can rival Japan when it comes to toilets. The local market (worth several billion US dollars) is controlled by two companies, Toto and Inax, both of which are also active in the USA.

So, this is what the future looks like: the Regio Smart Toilet by INAX combines a bidet and a self-cleaning toilet with such features as automatic flushing and deodorizing, an automatic seat and lid, ...

There are plenty of high-tech toilets out there, yessirree, Bob. But from Japan now comes perhaps the throne of thrones, a toilet that does everything for you except ... well, you know. The Regio, as ...