A fixation on toilets took over the internet in mid-June 2021 when a social media user posted a photo to Reddit that claimed to depict a Japanese toilet with a hand sink attached to the top of it.

This week we featured Latvian designer Kaspars Jursons' solution to help conserve water: the seemingly ingenious "sink-urinal ... my husband and I moved to Japan in the late 1980s to live ...

The image depicts a Japanese toilet with a sink connected to it. After washing your hands in the adjacent sink, you can use the dirty water for the next flush. On many Japanese toilets ...

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Just as Sawada's video shows, some McDonald's in Japan have installed sink systems that come with a slot that "washes" your smartphone. It's a system called WOSH developed by Japanese company WOTA.