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2.8M views · 11 years ago · comedy · evergreen

An Adult Swim infomercial parody for Smart Pipe, a fictional startup that turns toilet waste into data and social connectivity. It satirizes everything-connected tech culture.

HN posts it as a joke whenever a real smart toilet, IoT gadget or silly startup idea appears, because reality keeps matching the parody.

Satire & parodyStartups & entrepreneurship#parody#iot#smarttoilet#adultswim#startupculture

17 comments from Hacker News

@fragmede2025 · in “Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera”

▶ this video for those who haven't seen it yet. edit: also, what the hell, YouTube? they've got this new link shorter at ▶ this video that they really want you to use, that forces you to use the browser to watch it instead of the app? so weird.

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@gowld2025 · in “Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera”

▶ this video Smart Pipe | Infomercials | Adult Swim Everything in our lives is connected to the internet, so why not our toilets? Take a tour of Smart Pipe, the hot new tech startup that turns your waste into valuable information and fun social connectivity. [Smart Pipe Inc. is a registered sex offender.]

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@avidiax2025 · in “Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads”

That is dystopian, but to be fair, this is China. They are literally rolling out facial ID tech to prevent paper thieves. link link > soon toilets will be photographing your butt to fingerprint your anus, while data brokers sells your poop data Life imitates art: ▶ this video

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@ashwinsundar2025 · in “'smart toilet' started as a joke – now it's gaining momentum – The Hustle”

there was an Adult Swim sketch a while back about "Smart Pipe". they are so good at predicting the future... ▶ this video

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@amy_petrik2025 · in “I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud”

the use of customer-central water usage data piques my interest. there's a huge market for selling water and waste data to advertisers and other companies interested in consumer data. This is one of my friend's startups, smartpipes, which is a type of smart sewage pipe - these smart washers remind me of smartpipe (which supports dishwasher waste!): ▶ this video

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@Waterluvian2024 · in “macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time”

> Hell, I'm now surprised that some YC startup hasn't released a Smart Toilet that does this. Thanks, Smart Pipe! ▶ this video

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@amy-petrik-2142024 · in “Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?”

since this is YC, maybe to understand oral-B's business model which is avante-garde, you could consider this great piece on their main competitor (SmartPipe): ▶ this video

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@may_mccheese2024 · in “Scientists traced a mysterious Covid case back to six toilets”

The person who did this study is actually YC '2025! Developing what is called "smart pipes" to trace these types of things: ▶ this video

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@godelski2024 · in “Google ordered to identify who watched certain YouTube videos”

I would contend that Blackstone was of the position that no innocent person who was not of sufficient suspicion of committing a crime should be investigated. These are innocent bystanders. There is nothing suspicious about their activities other than they did something that a suspected criminal did. A perfectly legal activity? To take this to the ridiculous side, are we going to investigate everyone who took a poop at a specific time because a criminal did? ▶ this video

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@smoldesu2021 · in “SmartPoop 1.0: This AI went where no human will ever go”

Adult Swim made riffed on a similar concept[0] a few years ago, though it seems like some companies never quite took the message to heart... [0] Smart Pipe ▶ this video

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@jimmaswell2020 · in “‘Smart toilet’ monitors for signs of disease”

Adult Swim's Smart Pipe coming to life. ▶ this video I actually thought it was a cool idea when I watched that, besides the exaggerated parts for the joke.

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@ardy422020 · in “Stanford scientists design a toilet with facial recognition for your butthole”

Parody becomes reality. This is literally Adult Swim's Smart Pipe: ▶ this video : > Everything in our lives is connected to the internet, so why not our toilets? Take a tour of Smart Pipe, the hot new tech startup that turns your waste into valuable information and fun social connectivity.

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@gitgud2020 · in “Show HN: Take photos of your poop for better gut health”

Interesting, Crappsy looks remarkably similar to an [1] Adult Swim parody of startup companies from 2014. [1] ▶ this video

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@RankingMember2018 · in “AI Can Detect Illnesses in Human Breath”

I assume you've already seen this, but if not, it's an infomercial for a fictional product that does exactly that. ▶ this video

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@clydethefrog2017 · in “Startup Ideas”

The Smart Bathroom idea seems beyond parody. See the Smart Pipe satire infomercial comedy channel Adult Swim produced in 2014. ▶ this video

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@StudentStuff2017 · in “Why I’m Digging Deep Into Alzheimer’s”

It'd be great to be able to pull glucose, hydration and more out of urine samples real time, so long as we stay away from say live telemetry to insurers or something like SmartPipe[1] it'd be enormously beneficial. 1 - ▶ this video

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@clydethefrog2017 · in “Every Dumb Startup Ever”

Adult Swim did a critical parody two years ago which still nails the hidden motives of many startups. ▶ this video

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