Home Compost Machine from Panasonic

Are you into home composting, but not the stink? Don't have a yard for that black barrel that spins around on an axis? If you're like me, you're doing the "bucket in the kitchen" thing with a stinky pile at the far end of the yard where you dump stuff and occasionally brave stabbing it with a pitchfork to turn it.

Well, Panasonic plans to change that. At least for the Japanese. The green craze is an Asian thing too, and the Japanese are all over it. Or course, if you live on the seventeenth floor of a Tokyo high rise and your yard consists of three bonsai trees on a small patio, you don't exactly have space for composting.

Now you do! If you are willing to pony up $881 for the priviledge, that is. Yep, you read right. This little beauty sells for $881 USD (in the yen equivalent), so it ain't cheap.

Personally, I'd pass on it. I mean, I could get a whole composting toilet setup for that price.

Yes, folks, I just said composting toilet. Don't be alarmed. It's better than your granny's outhouse. :)