The literal representation of a doctor in your toilet, perhaps unable to get out. (Image courtesy Zmeel Photography/istockphoto.com)

I’ve just permanently installed my scat freak flag in my cubicle. (Perhaps I should refer to it as a fecal flag.) Today’s podcast, “The Brilliant and Terrifying Future of Toilets,” could finally cement my rep here at HSW as the resident Scatologist (please, please, please!)

From fecal transplants and the unorthodox digestive lives of sloths, to the toilet that Dante might have had Satan use, we’re doing the dirty work to keep you all updated on scat innovations as much as possible.

Why? Because three things in life are necessary to our survival: eating, sleeping and pooping. Without the latter expression of our physicality, we’d pretty much be toast.

With that in mind, once again Robert and I delve into the heart of darkness, this time to podcast about what kind of toilet technology you can expect to see in the future.

As usual our friends at NASA are leading the way when it comes to waste-recycling technology, which, if you will pardon the pun, trickles down to us landlubbers here on Earth eventually. But one of the more exciting possibilities is that in the near future each of us could have a kind of doctor in our toilet in the future.

OK, less a doctor and more like your own lab — a Japanese company developed a toilet that can analyze your urine, take your blood pressure and weigh you. All of this data can be e-mailed to your doctor or your family members. Brilliant. We also discuss what happens to our waste when it leaves the mainline, and we look at a couple of commodes so tricked out that you may never want to leave your bathroom again, (looking at you, gamers).

I should also mention that last week Robert and I attended the stellar World Science Festival chock-full of fascinating talks. In the middle of a spirited debate on investing in a more secure system of cryptography, what random topic came up? Toilets, of course. A couple of panelists reminisced about the Department of Defense Reagan-era expenditure of molded plastic toilet covers at $640 a pop.

Turns out the DOD is pretty preoccupied with the potty, too. Who knew?

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