There are some gadgets that are excellent conversation pieces.  Some gadgets are good for a laugh.  Then, others are just a humorous joke. 

Yet, every once in a while a gadget makes a memorable appearance.  It gets a laugh but then finds many fans.  I was introduced to one such gadget while in Korea. 

Once I checked into my hotel room, I unpacked.  Then, I walked over to check out the bathroom.  That’s when I saw the gadget for the first time.

It made me laugh.  Surely, I thought, this was some kind of prank.  Maybe someone with a camera was going to pop out of the closet once I tried to use it.

The gadget is an automatic body washer.  Yes, the toilet had its own electronic control panel next to the seat.  I stood there at the bathroom door and laughed.  I even looked around to see if anyone had placed this there as a tease.  I was alone.

Eventually, the time came to use this gadget.  Afterall, it was private, it was time and the need obviously presented itself.  So, I prepared myself and sat down.  Immediately, I was laughing out loud.

The seat was heated!  It felt so good.  Once I was over the initial shock of such a surprise I was immediately impressed with how comfortable it was.

It’s easy to relax when I have good reading material.  Give me an outdoor magazine, motorcycle accessory catalog or a book on mechanical advances and I’ll put fiber drinks out of business.  But, without any of that classic reading material at hand in a foreign country, I was wondering what this new gadget would do to produce the same smooth-flowing results.

I was not disappointed.  Comfort, heat and a gentle vibration massage were even more relaxing than my favorite reading materials.  The gadget had now captured my attention.

A side panel with all sorts of lighted buttons invited me to experiment.  I pressed all of them.  One button turned on a fountain of warm water that personally washed my body parts that just completed their divinely appointed tasks.  How did it know where to squirt?  It was definitely a bull’s eye!  Well, no eye, perhaps another part of the heifer’s anatomy.

Someone invented a winner.  It makes me smile just thinking about that experience.  Here back at the ranch, we have cold plastic seats that don’t do much of anything.