767 Fifth Avenue & 59th Street

Perpetuating much of the techno-cultural zeitgeist, we visited the Apple’s Store on 5th Avenue to see what this company can offer to the future of restroom design and function. A bit weary that we were directed underground (where the whole sales floor is) and then relegated to wade through a parade of people whose whole identities reside on how many Gigabytes are in their iPods, we made it past the Genius Bar. At said bar we looked for Picasso sharing an aperitif with Einstein, but found a Wired Magazine intern advising a grad student on the joys of pimping his iBook for gaming. After these distractions, we at long last found the iRestroom.

We were pleasantly surprised to find that Apple at least has a vision that it consistently sticks with. The restroom indeed looks like you are inside of a G4 (we hear reports it is an early prototype for Steve Jobs’ tomb, if he dies). The whole bathroom is silver, clean, functional, and has an exciting new faucet/handle design that is sure to excite bloggers for, oh, another week. It loses some points for low lighting (not the good kind, the “don’t stay long” kind), but all in all, a strong show.

Rating: 7

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