• mr_robot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 天前

    These would be incredibly useful in scenarios where someone might otherwise require assistance when bathing.

    • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
      16·
      2 天前

      This isn’t meant for your house. From TFA:

      A hotel in Osaka bought the first machine and is preparing to offer the service to hotel guests, the spokeswoman said.

      Other customers include Yamada Denki, a major consumer electronics retail chain in Japan, which hopes the machine will draw people to visit its outlets, she said.

      “Because part of the appeal of this machine is rarity, we plan to produce only about 50 units,” Ms Maekura said.

  • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
    8·
    1 天前

    That price does not make any sense whatsoever. It’s clearly having a 10000% markup for the rich people while there is no competition

    • MimicJar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      13 小时前

      But also at that price… Just hire someone to clean you. That’s the real rich person way.

    • xia@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 天前

      I’m not so sure… I could see a huge legitimate price range depending on its features, speed, and effectiveness. Consider the engineering difference between Billy-Bob’s “it squirts you with a hose” versus something that would clean even the body-surfacr you are reating on, and wash your face & eyelids without getting water in your nose & eyes.

      • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
        6·
        1 天前

        We just finished building a huge (automated, with robotic hand) candle manufacturing machine with over 3000 molds, 8500pcs/hour, the thing is massive, modern, with multiple computers, hundreds of sensors, motors, etc. The whole thing is bigger than my house. It was cheaper than buying this bath

  • ErableEreinte@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    1 天前

    Was anyone else tripped up by the picture shown in that article? To me it looks as though it’s a miniature version of the device, but I can’t quite put my finger on why that is.

  • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8·
    2 天前

    Half a million bucks to have a machine was your ass

    Or…

    Wash your own ass in the shower/tub you likely already have and not spend half a million bucks

    Hmmmm

  • CannedYeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 天前

    I assumed this was going to be a solution to Japan’s problems of an increasingly elderly population combined with a refusal to increase immigration.

  • qyron@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    1 天前

    I thought we had already invented that one. In two separate version. The first was the bathtub and the revised one being the shower booth.