Passion to develop toilets

Japanese sanitary company's passion to develop toilet is outstanding in the world.

Our toilets have magnificent features, but unnecessary for some people, such as an automatic open rid system, an illumination light to help your aim at night, comfortable music, flushing sound in order to drown out some sound you create, a seat heater, and not to mention a spray-toilet.

You don't need to be worried about coldness by the water spray, of course it's a warm water. It is okay not to brace to get sprayed because you can adjust the force of the spray as you want.

That kind of toilet is quite capable to deodorize, toilet smell will be sucked in it like a vacuum.

For those of you who feel turning lever is really a hustle, they offer a remote controller. Nowadays it also served as a smartphone app. You can relieve if you forget to flush it!

I've been living for 30 years in Japan but it has been still a mystery for me to know who needed such functions. They always outstrip my imagination.

Apparently these features are very exclusive, I've almost never seen features above in overseas countries. 

Thanks Monique!

A Minor Complaint about Air Conditioners

There is a small thing about the remote of my air conditioner.

I'm worried about whether I can convey it correctly. It's such a small complaint I'm not sure you'll even understand it.

My question is: why can't the remote be synchronized with the main unit more easily.

Generally, the remote is handy. It lets me turn the AC up and down from a distance, set an off-timer and on-timer, and see the temperature setting.
However, when I use the remote, I have to point it towards the AC unit precisely. If the remote faces another direction, the signal travels the wrong way, and it doesn't work.
It happens especially when I use it while doing something else. The required angle to point it at the AC is like archery and I always have to shoot the second arrow.
Why does the signal last only for a moment?
Why can't control the AC on the first try?
If the signal lasted several seconds, not a moment, I wouldn't have to aim it so exactly. Moreover there should be a better way to sync it.
My previous AC had the same limited features, it never improves.

It's such a small issue that I feel awkward to bring it up, though.

Thanks to Brian, MauricioEiji and SY's correction.

Candylipz: Way to Make Your Lips Bigger

Candylipz.

It looks questionable but the development of these kind of beauty instruments never ends.

A lady put a squishy rubber apple-like stuff on her lip, and squashed it to absorb it into her lips. Afterwaiting a minute, voila! Her lips became plump and more attractive.

I found this interesting product, Candylipz, by chance.

I watched a demo video on Instagram and first thought "what's the difference?" but maybe it's just because I'm a guy who is not particular about lips. I could tell the difference by comparing between before and after. 

The application is simple and easy. I have no idea how popular it is, but it seems it was a hit in 2015. I didn't see it in Canada last year, though.

The appearance is neat enough to sell (perhaps) but I'm guessing it will be hard for it to become a big hit in Japan due to the difference in the sense of beauty in regards to lips.

It's interesting that this simple product is created after people invented lip injection to plump. It should be the opposite but I know sometimes it's tougher to create simple stuff. The simpler you make a product, the tougher it is to invent.

According to the official web page, lips will stay plumped for up to 2 hours. Users might use before going out...but how do they do after 2 hours?

Is her lip going to shrink while hanging out?

Anyway, I was somewhat impressed that there is still possibility to develop such a simple product.

Thanks to Dillon and CthuluFett's correction.

Hey guys, Do you polish rice?

I'll write about rice again, but this time the topic is more about rice itself.
Yesterday, I did rice polishing.
It occurred to me later that I didn't know whether or not this procedure existed abroad. Actually, I'm not sure what do they do about rice in other area of Japan, not to mention abroad.
In which condition do you buy rice, polished or unpolished? Furthermore, do people even know if rice needs polishing before you wash and cook it?
Oh no, doubts beget more doubts, I'm way too skeptical.
I know rice is everywhere and unpolished rice is not edible, so, for this reason, people polish rice everywhere. I shall not doubt.

Anyway, I went to a rice polishing facility with 30kg of rice. There are dozens of facilities like this in rural towns.

When you pour unpolished rice into a hopper and insert coins in the slot, rice is then sucked into a machine and polished automatically. After waiting several minutes, polished white rice comes from an outlet port. Then you have to bring 30kg of rice back home. 

It's laborious.

What is interesting is that you may not be able to find that such a normal thing exists, or doesn't exist, if you live in a different region. For example I couldn't imagine that people didn't have to polish rice.

Thanks to Dylan and Brian's correction.