Looks like it could be replaced with Amazon Echo or any similar voice-enabled speaker which is 1/5 of cost.
Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
81–90 of 168 posts
Re: Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m willing to bet 50% of people in the U.S. get anxious when having to do their business in a public bathroom. Doing your business next to a stranger in Tevas with hobbit feet and a serious gastro intestinal issue is nightmare fuel for me.
It's funny how people tend to assume their own characteristics are global phenomena, or at least common; isn't it? Looks like the actual number is somewhere closer to 2.8% - 16.4% of people [ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28554367/ ]. (This study was specifically about "shy bladder" but that seems a pretty close proxy)
Not shy bladder at all. I’ll let it rip. Doesn’t mean I or others enjoy the experience.
Re: Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
#83Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't the white noise near the source mostly just affect the perception of sounds for the person in the toilet, and less so for the people outside? Kind of like if you're doing the dishes and have the water running, people can hear you just fine, but you can't hear anything that's said to you. I know in psychologists' offices they often have the white noise device in the waiting room for…
It does block all sounds and it's not very loud either. It's actually a waterfall sound I recorded on a vacation. We have been using it for 3 years now and you can now relax in our office bathroom. Sometimes I remove the unit for testing stuff and people get very annoyed, haha.
> It's actually a waterfall sound I recorded on a vacation.
Would’ve gone with whale songs for a more authentic nature experience but that’s just me.
Re: Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
#84One addition that would be great is a shower timer, and a humidity sensor to auto-detect how long I'm in the bathroom
Thanks for your comment. May I ask what your aiming for by knowing your shower time? To save water?
Re: Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
#85> I think there could be a market for Loodio. What do you think?
No.
As others have pointed out, upmarket Japanese toilets have this feature as well as many other comfort features (auto bidet rinse and dry feature etc.)
People who want this feature will therefore just go out and buy a Japanese toilet, since not only will they get the soundtrack but they will get all the fancy comfort features too.
For everyone else, unless a medical condition prevents you from doing so, the answer is simple .... make some very minor adjustments to your diet and you will find you can avoid doing a "no 2" in the office altogether and just do it in the comfort of your own home in the morning and evening.
Re: Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
#86I never understood why this is bothering anyone, it's part of life! A bit like those toilet sprays...stuff stinks that's it. For me this is a solution for a non-existing problem.
I am highly sensitive to not bother anyone but I agree with this. This reeks of the tech mentality of trying to overcome nature and separate everyone into neat little pods.
Eventually we are going to have to face and accept our natural human bodies as a species. For hundreds of years the market has offered us escape from them, with new technologies to plaster over our "faults" every decade. If only we had listened to the hairy armpit feminists when they were shouting this at us in the 60s and 70s...
Re: Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
#87I never understood why this is bothering anyone, it's part of life! A bit like those toilet sprays...stuff stinks that's it. For me this is a solution for a non-existing problem.
Especially since I kinda doubt said sprays are good for our health. At least they're not better than what they're covering...
There was a story recently about someone having blotchy face issues which got better when they were WFH during the plague but almost instantly came back when they were re-officed. Turns out (via an allergy test) they were allergic to some industrial chemical that, surprise, was one of the chemicals in the toilet air freshener and were basically being pepper-sprayed every time they went in.
[edit: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/skin-irritated... ]
Re: Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's silly. Wanting privacy during our most vulnerable moments is deeply ingrained into our psyche, all the way down to our lizard brains. This is a very real and very legitimate problem to be solved. Surely, you must feel perfectly comfortable walking around naked, having people watch you defecate, or having sex in public? After all, it's part of life!
Won't reply to all the strawmen at the bottom of your post, but I and lots of people don't care what people HEAR while we're using the bathroom.... its a bathroom for god's sake! Everything happening in there is normal and I'm not sure why you are imagining yourself to be "vulnerable" inside a locked private room.
> I'm not sure why you are imagining yourself to be "vulnerable" inside a locked private room.
The whole reason we all agree that having a locked room to do your business in is ideal is because it's such a vulnerable position to be in. We feel better about being in a locked room, but you can never get your basic instincts to not feel vulnerable when you're mid defecation/mid urination. It's animalistic and can never go away.
Quite literally, knowing people can hear us take a dump triggers survival instincts because our brains think we could be alerting predators to our whereabouts while we're not in a position to run or fight
Re: Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
#89I never understood why this is bothering anyone, it's part of life! A bit like those toilet sprays...stuff stinks that's it. For me this is a solution for a non-existing problem.
I can offer a perspective: being a woman in tech is already very othering.
You can be the only person on an entire floor to use that bathroom. Having your coworkers hear what is going on inside can be very distressing (especially when we consider existing taboos).
Some neutral bathrooms that share a room between genders can amplify this, for example where I work there is a shared sink but cabins have wooden doors that go from floor to ceiling. Great to hide from eyesight, not so great for sounds. Exiting the cabin and noticing that a coworker of another gender was in the same room hearing everything you have done can be anxiety inducing.
People with health conditions also come to mind. IBS for example can result in some violent evacuations. Not everyone wants their coworkers to be aware of their health conditions.
People expect privacy, that's it.
Re: Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m willing to bet 50% of people in the U.S. get anxious when having to do their business in a public bathroom. Doing your business next to a stranger in Tevas with hobbit feet and a serious gastro intestinal issue is nightmare fuel for me.
It's funny how people tend to assume their own characteristics are global phenomena, or at least common; isn't it? Looks like the actual number is somewhere closer to 2.8% - 16.4% of people [ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28554367/ ]. (This study was specifically about "shy bladder" but that seems a pretty close proxy)
Disagree that it's a close proxy. Not being able to perform at all is much different than feeling uncomfortable about people hearing you do said deed.