I'm a couple days late with this...will it make it to the U.S.? http://www.ipodlounge.com/ipodnews_comments.php?id=6836_0_7_0_C Apple Japan announces, pulls iPotty dock pic Early Friday morning, the Japanese web site of Apple Computer briefly hosted pages depicting an previously unannounced iPod peripheral called "iPotty" (JPY 104,970, approx. $1000), a beige-and-white electric toilet seat featuring an integrated iPod dock on its right side. Presumably intended only for the domestic Japanese marketplace, iPotty promises to deliver music playback and an "optional scent eliminator" to drown out embarrassing bathroom sounds and smells. Availability is listed at 1-3 weeks, indicating an imminent release. The pages, which are no longer available online, described an Apple partnership with Japanese toilet seat manufacturer Toto, maker of Japan's popular Apricot-badged electric toilet seats. Apricot and other Toto seats include heating elements, bidets, motion sensors for automatic lid opening and closing, and in some cases remote controls and deodorizing systems. According to the pages, iPotty will feature an optional remote control to provide easy access to the system's bidet and other functionality.
Definitely an April Fools joke as the Japanese text and the English text don't match up at all. It would have been a heck of a lot more credible (and more work, not to mention funnier) if they actually had the Japanese text to match the "iPotty" description in the English version.
Well the links from one of the comments said that this had already been done by ToTo http://gadgets.3yen.com/2005-02-09/mp3-playing-toilets/
