Poop-Powered Bike: TOTO Releases Motorbike Toilet That Runs On Feces

Not a wasteful person? This poop-powered bike might be the number one motorbike for you -- and your number two.

Japanese toilet manufacturer TOTO has created a bike that runs on feces. The human waste, which is stored in the driver's seat, is turned into biofuel that powers the three-wheeled chopper, according to WTOP.

The company says it hopes the bike will help raise environmental awareness and reduce CO2 emissions in bathrooms by 50 percent by 2017, motorcycle magazine Clutch and Chrome reports.

The traveling toilet isn't the product's only eyebrow-raising feature: the bike can write messages in the air as it whizzes by, and the john can talk, Cincinnati City Beat blog points out.

If you're in Japan, you might be able to catch a whiff glimpse the poop mobile on its countrywide tour, which launched on Oct. 6.

Hopefully, this project avoids any major compilations. We thought an exploding toilet was bad, but an exploding toilet attached to a motorbike would really be a messy situation.

For more on the strange concoction, view the video above.

Comments

[nicko68]

04:56 AM on 10/10/2011

They ought to put one at the White House, they'll never run out of fuel!

[Diablo Canyon]

03:58 PM on 10/09/2011

The new Harley?

[lkfman]

02:55 PM on 10/09/2011

I will be passing on this.

[flxdcatbruce]

02:15 PM on 10/09/2011

How nice, a motorized toilet that can write messages in the air and talk. All mine can do is echo...

[powerage]

01:09 PM on 10/09/2011

I saw this and said "wow what innovation" then I saw the Pelosi article and realized wait a minute...Our congress has been running on feces for as long as I can remember.

[chuckl4826]

12:49 PM on 10/09/2011

If there was some way to attach this to Obama, with all the BS he has been peddling, he would be a MISSLE!

[dickn2000b]

12:57 PM on 10/09/2011

MISSILE...not MISSLE

[schnellsalem]

01:34 PM on 10/09/2011

In the english language it is pronounced the same !

[Al Schrader]

01:43 PM on 10/09/2011

No MISSLE. Not enough left in the Treasury to cover the cost of the I.

[gryphon10]

12:43 PM on 10/09/2011

What a crappy store for a Sunday morning.

[smelly katz]

12:42 PM on 10/09/2011

if i could hook up an exhaust pipe to my butt i could make 1000 miles in a day

[Ossit]

11:31 AM on 10/09/2011

Nor nastier than people making a living selling cow manure cleaning toilets or hotel rooms. Put a black light into some places in a hotel room and you'll discover a lot of nasty bodily fluids left behind.

[Howard Duley]

11:23 AM on 10/09/2011

This should be a huge seller in Washington DC where everyone is full of sxxt.

[lkfman]

02:57 PM on 10/09/2011

Or California.

[gailwynds331]

11:12 AM on 10/09/2011

would any other news source report this besides aol and HP?
it's disgusting.........how ridiculous to put this in print.

[llindahamlin]

11:08 AM on 10/09/2011

This is not a bicycle-the title should be changed!

[exoticdoc2]

10:51 AM on 10/09/2011

I notice they don't tell you how many miles it gets per...log?

[irishprince317]

01:58 PM on 10/09/2011

lol

[360Dunk]

10:30 AM on 10/09/2011

What next, a menstrual cycle that runs on hemoglobin?

[onegr8writer]

10:22 AM on 10/09/2011

Wait till the oil tycoons hear about this ! They'll be offering us pennies for our poo and reselling it for $100 a barrel !