Smart Toilet In China Explodes Into Flames

A fear a lot of people have is using the toilet and it exploding. When we say exploding, we mean the water pressure is so strong, it just blows up with water and kaka flies everywhere. We've seen it so many times in movies. Probably what causes people to have this fear. Well this man in China literally saw his toilet explode.

A toilet in China blew up in flames all by itself. The toilet is in Xiamen City in China's Fujian Province. The man said he walked into his bathroom and saw his toilet burst into flames. How? He had now clue. According to Niche Gamer, lots of comments came in abut the incident. People saying it's because he probably throws his cigarettes in the toilet and flushes them. Others theorized that it's because his toilet was leaking and he has a smart toilet seat.

A Chinese media outlet said this is more common across China, Niche Gamer reported. This is due to the methane gas in their sewer system. This is common with incendiary toilets. To prevent this, they said to keep your toilets clean and to check both your toilets and their pipes to prevent them from exploding or bursting into flames. Another key is to have good ventilation in your bathrooms.

A comment was issued by the Guangzhou Fire Department on this situation on Weibo stating that there has been a huge uptick in smart toilet seats exploding or bursting into flames. They suggest that when purchasing a smart toilet seat, make sure it's made by a name brand or a genuine product. Make sure there is correct or proper leakage protection. And when your toilet is installed make sure it is installed properly and sealed properly. This will help prevent incidents like this from happening.

We have more on this story in today's Other News!

CES in Las Vegas has been happening for years now, but do you know the history of how the coolest - and strangest (which I will talk about later in this article) - new gadgets came to be shown off in Las Vegas?

The first CES was held in June 1967 in New York City. It was a spinoff from the Chicago Music Show, which, until then, had served as the main event for exhibiting consumer electronics. The event had 17,500 attenders and over 100 exhibitors! The kickoff speaker was Motorola chairman Bob Galvin.

From 1978 to 1994, CES was held twice each year: once in January in Las Vegas  - The Winter Consumer Electronics Show (WCES) and once in June in Chicago - The Summer Consumer Electronics Show.

The winter show was successfully held in Las Vegas in 1995, but the summer Chicago shows were beginning to lose popularity, so the organizers decided to experiment by having the show in different cities starting in 1995 with a show in Philadelphia.. However, the inaugural E3 gaming show was scheduled to be held on the West Coast in May and was a source of increasing competition, causing the Philadelphia Summer CES show to be cancelled.

The 1996 Winter show was again held in Las Vegas in January,  followed by a Summer show in Orlando, Florida, but just a fraction of the regular exhibitors participated. The next "Summer" show was scheduled to be held in conjunction with Spring COMDEX in Atlanta, but only two dozen (or so) exhibitors signed on, so the CES portion of the show was cancelled.

In 1998, the show changed to a once-a-year format with Las Vegas as the location. It's now, of course, one of the largest conventions/shows in Las Vegas. The other biggie is CONEXPO - which takes about  two and a half weeks to set up, run, and break down.

CES 2023 is over, and now in the books. We've definitely seen a lot of innovative,  amazing, wonderful - and weird - items come out of CES each year.

Below are some of the weirdest, strangest, and bad gadgets to come out of CES over the past 20 years or so. Like the Taser holster, and toilet paper robot.

Some items are still being sold today. Maybe you have one?

-Carla Rea

2020: The year that saw mass panic buying of toilet paper. Along came a robot that could bring your toilet paper to you! Coincidence? Probably. The RollBot never really became a thing - but maybe it should have!

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The HapiFork is yet another vibrating gadget (not complaining there) that tells you to eat your meals slower.  The idea being, that you are less likely to overeat. If you wolf your measl down like you're in prison, this was the gadget for you!  

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This was first shown off at CES 1998. The Hitachi Xybernaut wearable computer was an amazing, yet terrible idea long before Google Glass was even a gleam in one's eye. The Windows based Xybernaut Poma offered a 128MHz RISC processor and 32MB of RAM for the low, low price of $1,499, and it strapped to your arm, and your face, and your belt. "Hey! Wanna date me???"

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Withings U-Scan is a toilet add on that - well -  analyzes your pee. There’s a lot of potential data in your pee, enabling early detection of diseases and cycle tracking (for women), but there are also major privacy issues with this one.

Back in the 2000's, the iPod became such a cultural phenomenon that every company rushed to make an MP3 player of its own. This resulted in one of the dumbest CES products: the Tazer MP3 holster. Imagine trying to not only charge your holste,r but also connect it via USB to your computer to fill it up with a whopping 1GB of music!

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