On the other hand it might make toilet training easier!
Sega installs 'Toylets' game consoles in Japanese urinals
Wired.co.uk -Sega has announced that it's testing consoles called "Toylets" in urinals around Tokyo, which asks the user to strategically vary the strength and location of his urine stream to play a series of games.
Each urinal is installed with a pressure sensor and an LCD screen is mounted on the wall above, which lets you select from and play four different minigames. There's "Mannekin Pis", which simply measures how hard you can pee, and "Graffiti Eraser", which lets you remove paint by pointing a hose in different directions.
There's the faintly misogynistic "The North Wind and Her", where you play as the wind trying to blow a girl's skirt up, and the harder you pee, the harder the wind blows. Finally, the bizarre "Milk from Nose" is a multiplayer game where you compete against the person who last used the urinal. The strength of your urine streams are compared, and translated into milk spraying out of your nose. If your stream is stronger, your milk-stream knocks your opponent out of the ring. If you do particularly well on any of the games, you can download and save your information to a USB stick.
Of course, it's not just about games. Between sessions, the Toylet will display adverts, hoping that you'll pay more attention to them than you might a traditional ad because it also serves up the games. With the USB stick functionality, it's entirely possible that personalised adverts are in the works, too.
The idea may have come from a concept served up by Yanko Design back in 2006, where an designer named Marcel Neundorfer positioned pressure plates on urinals. Other one-offs have followed since, but "Toylets" seems to be the first time that the concept has been considered as part of a larger, commercial roll-out.
If you're curious, Sega has an entire website dedicated to the "Toylets", though it's all in Japanese.
