Author: Simona Shemer / Source: The Next Web
This article was originally published on NoCamels.
Cleaning the toilet bowl is not for the faint of heart. One must usually brave the strong chemicals of cleaning products while wielding a sloppy, germ-infested toilet brush to get the job done.
Now, two Haifa-based Israeli entrepreneurs have taken it upon themselves to help people take action against the dirtiest of dumps with just the press of a button.
They came up with Toibot, the world’s first motorized toilet bowl cleaning robot.Aiming to rid the world of 90 years of manual toilet-bowl cleaning, Daniel Tokarev, and David Alush have created the full prototype of this battery-powered device that automatically dispenses cleaning solutions inside toilet bowls without a need for human contact. Just a quick positioning of the product’s plastic track around the rim of the toilet, the click of a button, and the gadget will automatically clean the entire inside of the toilet bowl, in full 360-degree fashion.
Already dubbed the “Roomba of toilets” by ChipChick, a self-described technology and gadget site for women, Toibot is set to be ready for a market launch by early 2019 for under $79. The device is currently on pre-order and co-founder Daniel Tokarev tells NoCamels that thousands have already registered on Toibot’s official website to buy it.
“The vision was to produce convenience and change the unpleasant experience of cleaning a toilet; to make it a more efficient, time-saving and hygienic process that is hassle-free and bacteria-free,” Tokarev explains.
More than just an accident
Tokarev tells NoCamels that he and Alush came up with the idea for Toibot in 2013, “completely by mistake.
” As the story goes, the friends were watching a TV show about innovation when Alush took a bathroom break and, spotting the toilet brush, pondered its mere existence.“He came back from the bathroom and said, ‘How can it be that we just saw this show [about innovation] and yet, people still have to clean the toilet manually?’” Tokarev explains.
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