So you want to help the environment by riding your bike to work. But the idea of peddling up a hill at 8:00 AM—before you’ve had your coffee—sounds a little daunting, right?
Well, here’s the solution: get a bike that is powered by your own excrement. It’ll cut back on emissions, save you money on gas, and you won’t have to engage in aerobic activity to get to work.
Does such a bike exist? You bet your butt it does.
Japanese toilet manufacturer TOTO has come out with the Toilet Bike Neo, which has a commode for a seat and converts human waste into a biogas the propels the vehicle. They developed this ingenious mode of transportation as part of their TOTO Green Challenge, the goal of which was to find a way to cut CO2 emissions in bathrooms in half by 2017. (And I bet you didn’t even know CO2 emissions in bathrooms was a big environmental problem.)
Oh, and just in case a crap-powered motorcycle isn’t enough for you, this thing also plays music, talks to you (“thanks for dropping by”?), and writes messages in the air through some technology called “residual light imagery” (a.k.a., magic). Neat.
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