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Yea or Nay: This Robotic Toilet-Cleaning Device

A company named Altan Robotech (yes, that’s their real name) is selling Giddel, a small robotic toilet cleaning device. You can let the device do its thing while you try to initiate hooking up with your partner. If you don’t believe me, watch the video below:

Were I the director, I probably would have edited out the footage starting at the 0:15 mark.

In any case, while I appreciate that the designers came up with the little recharging dock for the object and thought about where it should live…

…I am critical of the Giddel itself’s design.

Aside from the fact that it just looks like something that’s going to break, the variety of surface transitions and forms make it look as if the object was designed over the phone. I’d want to see something that visually corresponded with the typically smooth shape of a toilet bowl, not something that looks like Marvin the Martian.

Tasked with designing this, what would you all have done differently?