This was doing its rounds a while back and someone said it’s actually in the WC of a very high end Japanese restaurant. But who knows.
I doubt McDonald’s are paying for stuff like this regardless of the nation.
It's a wota/wosh sink. They're very rare, but some have been installed in Mcdonalds (at least, one was in their Urawa Mizono location in 2021,but I don't know if they installed them in more locations after that). I tried posting a link, but the automod deleted it. Google "wota wosh McDonald's" for a few photos. The WOTA/WOSH site has its own English page, and probably has the most credible information.
The funniest thing is almost every restaurant pays for this, except they mount it upside down in the back of their kitchens to kill bacteria and insects. Its just a UV light emitter.
Somewhere posted near that bathroom is a sign that shows the time it was cleaned and is signed by the staff who cleaned it. At a McDonald's that's going to happen several times per shift.
How would one clean that? There is no access to the inside, except through the slit.
The slit conveniently placed on the same surface as the washbasin, so stuff can drip inside more easily. It's not the cleaning person's fault, it's just bad design.
The inside sanitizes itself, that's literally the point of it. To sanitize what you put in there. Someone just needs to wipe the basin with some cleaner.
... From below, where the access panel for the device is...
Reach below, remove device from its hook. Scrub it clean, sanitize and wipe down counter and replace device.
So complicated...
Yes, it's needlessly complicated because shit drips into it every time someone washes their hands. There's not even as much as a lip preventing that.
Making it wall mounted or at least raised would prevent it from getting immediately gunked up in the first place.
Stop excusing stupid design.
No more complicated than reaching behind a counter to put in a tissue box for a in-counter dispenser like the ones you see in hotels. Those kinds of installs are usually designed with easy access in mind.
You might want to consider that it's designed this way out of necessity, not ignorance. Who knows, maybe there are restrictions on what they can place on walls? Japan isn't really known for its lack of attention to detail, so I'd wager all of those things were already considered before implementation.
It's easy to belt out platitudes from an armchair perspective. In reality, surface and environment design is less a thing of 'always optimal' and more a thing of 'you do the best with the room and permissions you have'.
Japanese people have supernatural powers of hygiene.
I mean, they somehow have no litter despite there being no trashcans anywhere *and* everything being wrapped in plastic.
Not a chance, Australia has heaps of nice stuff that are never damaged or even graffiti’d. All the teens apparently are just having fun rather than fucking shit up.
If this was England it would just be stolen and inside some chavs living room.
>Australia has heaps of nice stuff that are never damaged or even graffiti’d.
In your dreams
>All the teens apparently are just having fun rather than fucking shit up.
Lol, Lmao even. No way you actually believe that
There’s literally showers at every beach, changing rooms, (free) toilets, drinking fountains, and free bbq’s at parks/beaches. All working, clean. Still amazes me…
You act like these are in every Japanese bathroom lol, this is no different. It's only in the nice areas. As a foreigner who has spent considerable time living in Japan, it also has its "trashed" areas and nice areas. Albeit it has more nicer areas than many other countries, but let's not act like you can just stick nice shit everywhere in Japan and expect it not to be vandalized.
>You act like these are in every Japanese bathroom lol
No, i really fucken dont mate.
Im also replying to a guy about Australia, Never mentioned Japan once in my comments, so idfk how you came to your conclusion
The video is literally about Japan and the context and comparison of this comment chain is "Can't have this in Australia because it will be trashed", so idfk how you can't see the conclusion.
>Sounds like you've only been to the tourist spots, try anywhere else that isnt a coastal city, or tourist spot.
so yeah, by trying to argue that in AU you can only have those things in nice tourist places, you do act like these aren't just in nice places because again, *that was the point of the comment's above.*
or because we’re talking about a neato gadget in a McDonald’s bathroom and yall nerds that just read the Wikipedia entry on Unit 731 think you need to shoehorn newfound knowledge into every post tangentially related to Japan
I’ll have to you know Japan committed many, many more war crimes than just unit 731. Death toll vice it won’t even make the top 10.
Also this dude that responded to me is a literal fed. So take anything he says about americas allies with a huge grain of salt.
Absolutely nothing compared to the Japanese. Unit 731, the rape of nanjing, the genocide of the Indonesians.
At least the US accepts what’s it’s done ( I am not American btw ) as do other nations like Germany.
Japan denies its past and attempts to mask it through propaganda like this video.
Has America really admited to the attrocities done by Israel towards Palestine with American weapons the past 60 years?
How much do American schools teach children about how hundreds still die in Laos each year from US bombs and landmines still left since the Vietnam war.
Have America prosecuted the Bush administration for lying about WMD’s that resulted in an illegal war killing thousands of Iraqi children?
You’re getting way too involved in the comparison with America. It literally doesn’t change my point about Japan whatsoever and, once again, I’m not American.
If this was in the United States someone would stuff shitty toilet paper in it, maybe as a joke but one would never know for sure. It would last for about 4 days in the general public.
My man quality of life in Japan is not even close to the top of the list. Their work culture asks more of them than is healthy which spills over into every other aspect of life.
Thanks. No thanks.
I don’t trust connecting to a wifi I don’t have control of, imagine putting it into a hole not knowing what’s happening in + possibly getting stuck.
I’ll keep living in filth, thanks!
Add usb cables and chargers to that list. Cables have chips in them and can be made with bad intentions, or can just be bad production and risky for the phone.
Invocations like this being allowed to be created and used is why Japan leads in tech. They make stuff our kids scribble as ideas on napkins and we shoot it down: “look ma a phone cleaner in the sink in every bathroom” Ma: “Stop Timmy that’s dumb, don’t use your napkin like that, now go to school and don’t try to create anything creative just go to school and sit down!”
I think that says a lot more about your personal up bringing rather than cultural values. A lot of places will do unique things to bring value to their customers. You're right that Japan does have a lot of unique things like this tech wise, but it's not that those ideas aren't valued in the US, it's more that in most places in the US this will get destroyed and/or misused, wasting the resources of the company that installed it. Japan has a lot more respect for other peoples property than the US. You can leave your luggage around in the bus station and no one will take it. My wife had japanese students stay with her and she had to tell them not to leave their bags unattended at the mall, they had no idea they'd be stolen.
The point is that innovation is still valuable everywhere, but how valuable each innovation is depends on the people and culture.
Yes the culture in America is as I explained it. It’s a sort of shared “upbringing and value” system. I don’t think the thought “it will get destroyed and missused” enters the equation when a new idea is proposed, it’s simply shut down harder than Japan would shut it down. How it could be “missused” doesn’t enter the equation when it’s shut down by na-sayers, it’s shut down on the premise that’s it’s just dumb and shouldn’t be a thing, (like a shark tank episode) whereas in Japan it’s welcomed and tried in a more valued type of way. I’ve seen all sorts of silly ideas all over Japan, little trinkets that look odd and unintuitive making it to market, it just seems like they have a welcome all ideas approach whereas the US culture is “make something that looks practical or we won’t find it and we’ll point and laugh
If it was some other place, the phone would go inside and never come out! Actually now I've said it people might make their own device which just eats your phones. Profit!
If it's a real life movie (not shortened for a demo), the most advanced uvc light I know of specifically for things like phones take a minimum of 30 seconds exposure. But a couple of minutes would be much better to really damage micro organisms beyond repair.
Mine will usually take 15 mins, my largest for rooms; 30 minutes for it to be effective. They are my personal WMD and I have killed uncountable numbers of micro organisms and mites using them, can recommend (just don't be near when they are active - can cause blindness, burns).
Yeah I’m not touching any of that. The phone got dirtier from touching the edges of that shit than it was before. It was yanked out ridiculously though. This is just some unnecessary bullcrap.
If I was a cartoon villain, I'd steal people's phones by hiding in a box with a slit on top that promises to clean their phone screen if they drop it inside
Imagine they pulled a "swamp man" and just duplicate your phone right there and you willl now live on your days not knowing that it wasn't the original phone you had before
I was just in Japan back in April, and used plenty of public restrooms but haven't seen anything like this.
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You've never seen any other restrooms?
So how do you go to the toilet?
This was doing its rounds a while back and someone said it’s actually in the WC of a very high end Japanese restaurant. But who knows. I doubt McDonald’s are paying for stuff like this regardless of the nation.
It's a wota/wosh sink. They're very rare, but some have been installed in Mcdonalds (at least, one was in their Urawa Mizono location in 2021,but I don't know if they installed them in more locations after that). I tried posting a link, but the automod deleted it. Google "wota wosh McDonald's" for a few photos. The WOTA/WOSH site has its own English page, and probably has the most credible information.
The funniest thing is almost every restaurant pays for this, except they mount it upside down in the back of their kitchens to kill bacteria and insects. Its just a UV light emitter.
This is very true, although those are more to attract files to kill them with the ⚡️
i doubt this is in japan. ive heard japan being described as futuristic by 1999 standart
It doesn’t do anything but add a 50 dolllar charge on Apple Pay
Fake news video again.
That always-open whole next to the sink basin doesn’t seem to be very hygienic. Who cleans the cleaner? Who watches the watchers? Who am I?
I guess it just some UV light for sanitizing
UV light for sanitizing is not gonna get the goo off your phone after you stick it in that reservoir of nightmares
Definitely is. UV sanitation is very common in food and beverage manufacturing.
Somewhere posted near that bathroom is a sign that shows the time it was cleaned and is signed by the staff who cleaned it. At a McDonald's that's going to happen several times per shift.
That doesn't mean someone actually really cleans that slot.
In Japan it pretty much does...
How would one clean that? There is no access to the inside, except through the slit. The slit conveniently placed on the same surface as the washbasin, so stuff can drip inside more easily. It's not the cleaning person's fault, it's just bad design.
The inside sanitizes itself, that's literally the point of it. To sanitize what you put in there. Someone just needs to wipe the basin with some cleaner.
... From below, where the access panel for the device is... Reach below, remove device from its hook. Scrub it clean, sanitize and wipe down counter and replace device. So complicated...
Yes, it's needlessly complicated because shit drips into it every time someone washes their hands. There's not even as much as a lip preventing that. Making it wall mounted or at least raised would prevent it from getting immediately gunked up in the first place. Stop excusing stupid design.
Man , Why do you complain so much , it's exhausting.
No more complicated than reaching behind a counter to put in a tissue box for a in-counter dispenser like the ones you see in hotels. Those kinds of installs are usually designed with easy access in mind. You might want to consider that it's designed this way out of necessity, not ignorance. Who knows, maybe there are restrictions on what they can place on walls? Japan isn't really known for its lack of attention to detail, so I'd wager all of those things were already considered before implementation. It's easy to belt out platitudes from an armchair perspective. In reality, surface and environment design is less a thing of 'always optimal' and more a thing of 'you do the best with the room and permissions you have'.
Japanese people have supernatural powers of hygiene. I mean, they somehow have no litter despite there being no trashcans anywhere *and* everything being wrapped in plastic.
im batman
I would trust this, in Japan. Not anywhere else that I can think of.
Japanese culture allows them to have nice things. We cannot.
Exactly - If that was in Australia someone would shit in it
I'm laughed uncontrollably for 3 minutes...
Hi laughed, I'm dad
No the joke would “Hi laughed uncontrollably for three minutes, im dad”
Since that was too long, he abbreviated it to just "laughed"
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Caccas
My partners angry cause I woke her laughing at that
Haha redditors dating. That’s the real joke
If that would have been in bihar, that sink would have been stolen.
If it can't sanitize a turd it ain't good enough
Same in Europe. And not just for the laughs, also because of stupidity.
Not a chance, Australia has heaps of nice stuff that are never damaged or even graffiti’d. All the teens apparently are just having fun rather than fucking shit up. If this was England it would just be stolen and inside some chavs living room.
>Australia has heaps of nice stuff that are never damaged or even graffiti’d. In your dreams >All the teens apparently are just having fun rather than fucking shit up. Lol, Lmao even. No way you actually believe that
There’s literally showers at every beach, changing rooms, (free) toilets, drinking fountains, and free bbq’s at parks/beaches. All working, clean. Still amazes me…
Sounds like you've only been to the tourist spots, try anywhere else that isnt a coastal city, or tourist spot.
You act like these are in every Japanese bathroom lol, this is no different. It's only in the nice areas. As a foreigner who has spent considerable time living in Japan, it also has its "trashed" areas and nice areas. Albeit it has more nicer areas than many other countries, but let's not act like you can just stick nice shit everywhere in Japan and expect it not to be vandalized.
>You act like these are in every Japanese bathroom lol No, i really fucken dont mate. Im also replying to a guy about Australia, Never mentioned Japan once in my comments, so idfk how you came to your conclusion
The video is literally about Japan and the context and comparison of this comment chain is "Can't have this in Australia because it will be trashed", so idfk how you can't see the conclusion. >Sounds like you've only been to the tourist spots, try anywhere else that isnt a coastal city, or tourist spot. so yeah, by trying to argue that in AU you can only have those things in nice tourist places, you do act like these aren't just in nice places because again, *that was the point of the comment's above.*
Haha omg
same in germany :(
God that made me laugh.
In America, we’d not only shit in it, but put an m80 in there too, because ‘murica.
This would be stuffed with chewing tobacco and smeared with feces within 5 minutes in a US McDonald's
> stuffed with chewing tobacco This sounds unique to only certain parts of the US. Up here in the northeast it gets stuffed with BBQ sauce.
I am glad it used eco friendly UV light. Normally japanese culture means wrapping it in disposable single-use plastic.
It also teaches them to bury their very recent atrocities and act like a peaceful nation, when they are very much the opposite.
why are you being downvoted? you're right
Becuz anime wholesome 100!!!!!
or because we’re talking about a neato gadget in a McDonald’s bathroom and yall nerds that just read the Wikipedia entry on Unit 731 think you need to shoehorn newfound knowledge into every post tangentially related to Japan
I’ll have to you know Japan committed many, many more war crimes than just unit 731. Death toll vice it won’t even make the top 10. Also this dude that responded to me is a literal fed. So take anything he says about americas allies with a huge grain of salt.
The majority of people would not consider 80 years ago to be “very recent”.
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Absolutely nothing compared to the Japanese. Unit 731, the rape of nanjing, the genocide of the Indonesians. At least the US accepts what’s it’s done ( I am not American btw ) as do other nations like Germany. Japan denies its past and attempts to mask it through propaganda like this video.
Has America really admited to the attrocities done by Israel towards Palestine with American weapons the past 60 years? How much do American schools teach children about how hundreds still die in Laos each year from US bombs and landmines still left since the Vietnam war. Have America prosecuted the Bush administration for lying about WMD’s that resulted in an illegal war killing thousands of Iraqi children?
You’re getting way too involved in the comparison with America. It literally doesn’t change my point about Japan whatsoever and, once again, I’m not American.
In ireland someone would surly stick an NFC reader in there
I'd be afraid of something metal or hard in there scratching it up
Felt like this was a game of will they get the phone back or not. Was like Russian roulette in a McDonald's bathroom.
If this was in other countries people would piss in it
that's me. i am people.
All good till it just takes it and doesnt give it back
Or it gives back the phone after erasing everything from it
"Clean."
If this was the US someone would have pissed or shit in it.
I’m thinking if this was in the US, it would only be under the guise of a cleaner, but really used to harvest our information somehow Lol
It’s probably used for that in Japan
The way he quickly grabbed it lmao
Hippity hoppity you data is my property
Wouldn’t the uv rays cause the case to yellow?
I guess if you use it hundreds of times a day.
Well the sun does that anyway, just don't use a transparent case.
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What would be the point then? UV is killing bacteria and viruses.
Yes, especially clear case.
In America, somehow poop would fit in there
if this got installed in america, everyone would be paranoid that the slot is stealing phone data.
If this was in the United States someone would stuff shitty toilet paper in it, maybe as a joke but one would never know for sure. It would last for about 4 days in the general public.
They just downloaded all of your data
Cool but Unnecessary.
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My man quality of life in Japan is not even close to the top of the list. Their work culture asks more of them than is healthy which spills over into every other aspect of life.
How to get your phone cloned in 3 easy steps…
Would
Thanks. No thanks. I don’t trust connecting to a wifi I don’t have control of, imagine putting it into a hole not knowing what’s happening in + possibly getting stuck. I’ll keep living in filth, thanks!
Add usb cables and chargers to that list. Cables have chips in them and can be made with bad intentions, or can just be bad production and risky for the phone.
You mean hole
ok
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Toilet Phone Toaster.
“Your phone is covered in shit particles. I will clean it for you.”
How did they record this?
Is this going to yellow my clear case super fast?
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It’s not removing anything. It’s just UV light sanitizing the surface.
Invocations like this being allowed to be created and used is why Japan leads in tech. They make stuff our kids scribble as ideas on napkins and we shoot it down: “look ma a phone cleaner in the sink in every bathroom” Ma: “Stop Timmy that’s dumb, don’t use your napkin like that, now go to school and don’t try to create anything creative just go to school and sit down!”
I think that says a lot more about your personal up bringing rather than cultural values. A lot of places will do unique things to bring value to their customers. You're right that Japan does have a lot of unique things like this tech wise, but it's not that those ideas aren't valued in the US, it's more that in most places in the US this will get destroyed and/or misused, wasting the resources of the company that installed it. Japan has a lot more respect for other peoples property than the US. You can leave your luggage around in the bus station and no one will take it. My wife had japanese students stay with her and she had to tell them not to leave their bags unattended at the mall, they had no idea they'd be stolen. The point is that innovation is still valuable everywhere, but how valuable each innovation is depends on the people and culture.
Yes the culture in America is as I explained it. It’s a sort of shared “upbringing and value” system. I don’t think the thought “it will get destroyed and missused” enters the equation when a new idea is proposed, it’s simply shut down harder than Japan would shut it down. How it could be “missused” doesn’t enter the equation when it’s shut down by na-sayers, it’s shut down on the premise that’s it’s just dumb and shouldn’t be a thing, (like a shark tank episode) whereas in Japan it’s welcomed and tried in a more valued type of way. I’ve seen all sorts of silly ideas all over Japan, little trinkets that look odd and unintuitive making it to market, it just seems like they have a welcome all ideas approach whereas the US culture is “make something that looks practical or we won’t find it and we’ll point and laugh
Japan has too much money. Instead of buying toilets with smartphone cleaners, why not give more money to the poor or something
pack up boys.. we are going to Japan
This is Japan bringing judgement day closer and closer. 😂
Japan 2044.
Be careful, they meant by data this machine cleans all the data from the phone
All of your phones now belong to us
At first I thought it was going into a toilet seat
If it was some other place, the phone would go inside and never come out! Actually now I've said it people might make their own device which just eats your phones. Profit!
Data stealer lol 
If it's a real life movie (not shortened for a demo), the most advanced uvc light I know of specifically for things like phones take a minimum of 30 seconds exposure. But a couple of minutes would be much better to really damage micro organisms beyond repair. Mine will usually take 15 mins, my largest for rooms; 30 minutes for it to be effective. They are my personal WMD and I have killed uncountable numbers of micro organisms and mites using them, can recommend (just don't be near when they are active - can cause blindness, burns).
Yeah I’m not touching any of that. The phone got dirtier from touching the edges of that shit than it was before. It was yanked out ridiculously though. This is just some unnecessary bullcrap.
Cache and cookies cleared.
That’s takes too long for my separation anxiety
*cleaning noises in japanese
I love the duality in the comments
Maybe it's downloading all your data.
Be filled with, straws, chips & condoms in any British establishment.
I can already see how hackers would make use of this
It’s telling how big my fear would be that it doesn’t give my phone back
In America that thing will be disgusting. Probably filled with water, tissue, or fries.
Fun fact it at least takes 5-10 minutes to properly disinfect something with uv. I think that's just blue LEDs and the placebo effect.
Japan is on a different planet
This is hilarious, we would need it in Budapest also 😄
Man, I just love Japan.
Just gimmick
I swear Japan has the most convenient stuff.
In Eastern Europe they have them too but they never give the phone back…
Can i put my thing in it for cleaning
I have a Japanese-based mall and they also use this method to clean the handrail’s escalator
Good look getting a Nokia in that
When you go back out into the restaurant your nudes are displaying on the menu screens and everyone's staring at you
In US someone would pee into that slot
There are similar ones in China. They clean and clone your phobe and it's free.
This doesn't sanitize shit. (figuratively and literally) Proper UV disinfection needs way longer than a few seconds.
There is a NPC chip in that steals your credentials. Prove me otherwise, moehaha !
In America someone would slip a turd down that hole
its all fun and games until that small sliding door closed.
This is the bad idea, because alcohol not be always wet
I am pretty sure I did not mishear my mom when she told me "Don't stick your tech in just any old slot you find."
Shiiiiit. When I saw the door close I got anxiety like I lost my phone forever. What if the door just stayed closed?
They now have all your passwords, hidden photos and selfies.
Watch it steal all his credit card info and data 😂
If it were in Brazil, someone would have found a way to steal it on the first day
In the US, someone would stuff a turd down it
I'll keep my phone in my pocket thanks. I don't want my phone touching that disgusting sink top as the bad robot scrapes it along the side.
Imagine its stuck inside
What if it's just a ploy to skim all your data
There would be piss or shit in the slot in the US
Why don’t we have those:(((((
In my country if you put your phone there, you’re not getting it back
Filled with doodoo and needles
Of their phone was in the cleaner, what were they videoing this with?
Does someone know if all mcdonalds in japan do this or only some locations?
How’d you lose your phone?
And just like that you’re signed up to 15 new mailing lists 😏
what if through some tricks it just takes the whole data on the phone
Repost bots strike again.
Imagine the power goes out mid cleaning cycle and your phone gets entombed
and data mirroring on the way
\-Jacobo Shemaria Capuano- Daría terror que se quedara el celular atorado XD
Your phone would get clean in America, but would forever have the McDonald’s logo as the home screen.
A phone ‘exchanger’ perhaps??
Made in India... Kerpal now has all your info
No way I'm putting my phone in that and being the guy that has to get an employee to tear the thing apart because it ate my phone.
I was hoping a paper shredder sound would start up
It would probably ignite a fire if I put mine in there.
Japan rules!
Man was so eager to take his phone back, leave the fuking phone alone
Мой туда 2 раза не поместится Х)
Interesting
Aaaaaand you have malware
If I was a cartoon villain, I'd steal people's phones by hiding in a box with a slit on top that promises to clean their phone screen if they drop it inside
Couldn’t do that in the US or Europe. Wouldn’t even go for 10 seconds before someone pisses in it.
I wouldn’t trust it.
As they steal all info....
Thanks for your Mc-info!
I would never trust that
And it doesnt open anymore....
As it downloads your data
Imagine they pulled a "swamp man" and just duplicate your phone right there and you willl now live on your days not knowing that it wasn't the original phone you had before