"eco-oto", the iPhone app to make a sound of flushing toilet

Have you heard of a product called "eco-oto"? It's Japanese "エコ音" which is short for “ecological sound”.

It's the application for iPhone and iPodtouch developed by the Japanese game deverloper company called Polygon Magic, Inc. It basically plays a sound of flushing toilet for 30 sec or longer.

The idea of this application came from voices of Japanese female iPhone users who said many waste water flushing toilet when they don't want people to hear the noise that they make in the public bathroom. Japanese women are very self-conscious.

Many toilets in Japan come equipped with a “sound” button on their control panel and when you press the “sound button” these toilets will play a recording either of some music, or they replicate the sound of a flushing toilet. But in public places, there not likely to be equipped with a fancy toilet like that and this product became the perfect solution.

Well if it saves 4 gallons per flush then I suppose it not a bad idea.

This can be purchased at AppStore with 99 cents.