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    Smart Pipe | Infomercials | Adult Swim

    Adult Swim

    17 HN mentions · mentioned in 14 months, 2017–2025

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    11:02 · 2.8M views · Nov 18, 2014

    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.

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    17 comments from Hacker News

    1. @godelskiMar 2024· 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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    2. @amy_petrikMar 2025· 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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    3. @gowldDec 2025· 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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    4. @ardy42Apr 2020· 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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    5. @avidiaxSep 2025· 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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