Xiaomi Smart Mi toilet seat with cleaning function

Why don't you count me out for a minute? Our average life expectancy is 82 years. So if you now start from, say, 5 toilets per day that last 3 minutes, what value do we get? Right. At 15 minutes a day and 5,475 minutes a year. Extrapolated to 82 years, we come to an average toilet stay of 448,950 minutes in our lives. That is 7,482.5 hours or 311.77 days. So we spend at least one year of our life on the quiet little place (or even longer, because according to our dear Tim this is only an "optimistic girl calculation"). So why shouldn't we treat ourselves to the same luxury we treat ourselves to in all other areas of our lives?

Where we are still comparatively far behind, the Japanese, for example, are already much further ahead. And Xiaomi is now also adopting the toilet standards that are part of normality there. What went through the Internet as an April fool's joke in 2016 has now become reality: Xiaomi has added our most personal - and quiet - place to its range; our toilet. Strictly speaking, one should not talk about a toilet here, but much more about a toilet seat, since it is actually only a mountable attachment.

Functions

If the hoax announcement was still highly futuristic, the actual implementation of Xiaomi is downright sobering. The talk was about air filters, self-cleaning and even the possibility of coupling with the smartphone. According to first reports and pictures the toilet seat now comes "only" with a cleaning function and a heatable seat. The cleaning function via the retractable shower arm should have four different modes. In addition, the pressure can be adjusted and you should be able to choose whether to clean with hot or cold water.

The water used for cleaning also appears to be cleaned by a double cotton filter system to guarantee absolute hygiene. In order to guarantee this hygiene in the long run, the shower arm cleans itself with water and UV radiation - but the glasses still seem to have to be cleaned by myself, which definitely gives the toilet seat a point of deduction for me.

I would also have liked Xiaomi and its division into the Smart Mi family to offer a little more smart functions. But if you compare the seat with well-known Japanese or German manufacturers, one thing stands out: the price. Comparative prices for electric shower toilets are already much higher and can, for whole toilets, slide into a four-digit amount.