Smart Pipe | Infomercials | Adult Swim

Adult Swim · 2.8M views · 2014-11-18 · 11:02

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Overview

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.

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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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Satire & parody Startups & entrepreneurship

What people said

gowld · 2025-12 · Joke / meme
[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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fragmede · 2025-12 · Joke / meme
[VIDEO] for those who haven't seen it yet. edit: also, what the hell, YouTube? they've got this new link shorter at [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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avidiax · 2025-09 · Joke / meme
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: [VIDEO]
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