Some people say wasting time on video games is a way to flush your life down the toilet. In Japan, those people would be right.
Sega has just broken the seal on a new style of gaming that brings the action to the bathroom. The gaming company is planning to install above public urinals Toylets that allow restroom users to play four mini-games controlled by their own urine.
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There's streaming video -- and then there are streaming video games. Sega says it will outfit some urinals in Japan with a gaming system called a Toylet that's controlled by a player's urine.
Male commuters who stop for a bathroom break at four Tokyo metro stations will be able to challenge themselves by peeing on a pressure sensor, which measures the forcefulness of their urine stream, according to AkihabaraNews.com.
The sensor sends that information to a screen above the porcelain urinal, where users can keep real-time tabs on their bathroom performance.
The games are pretty straightforward: