This app-controlled toilet seat is a cheaper excuse to use your phone in the bathroom

Bemis has announced its Bio Bidet BB-1200 toilet seat is present available, allowing luxuries similar unlimited lukewarm water, a heated seat, and an aerial dryer to beryllium activated utilizing a smartphone app.

The institution claims the BB-1200, which archetypal debuted astatine CES 2024 past January, is “the archetypal North American bidet toilet spot that is controlled by an app and affordably priced.” Kohler announced a akin product astatine CES 2024 with its PureWash E930 bidet seat that tin beryllium operated utilizing the Kohler Konnect app oregon done dependable commands. It was instantly disposable to bid successful January for $2,149, but its terms has since dropped to $1,597.50.

That decidedly makes the $399 BB-1200 “affordably priced” by comparison. In summation to controlling the spot utilizing the Bemis Living app (available for some iOS and Android), the BB-1200 lets 2 users configure profiles with their preferred h2o pressure, h2o temperature, and spot temperature. The BB-1200 connects implicit some Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, and users unfastened the app erstwhile seated to activate their preferred setup.

Guests without a illustration tin entree each of the bidet’s functions utilizing an included wireless remote, and the spot tin beryllium retrofitted to astir existing toilets.

Bemis says its mobile apps don’t stock users’ idiosyncratic info with 3rd parties, and that immoderate diagnostic information it collects won’t beryllium linked to your identity. But if you person privateness concerns and don’t privation your smartphone connected to your toilet, determination are much affordable alternatives. Bemis besides sells a $59 spot upgrade that doesn’t adjacent request a powerfulness outlet, arsenic good arsenic a $309.99 app-less bidet that inactive includes h2o and spot warming.