Human Washing Machine

Headline on NDTV, Nov. 29, 2025: "Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry."

From François Lang, who sent this item to me:

I initially parsed this headline as a human [washing machine]; only after looking at the photo did I realize it was a [human washing] machine. Another headline that would have been made a lot clearer via simple hyphen!

Selected readings

"Quadrilingual Washlet Instructions" (8/22/08)

"Japanese hi-tech toilet instructions" (1/19/17)

"Advanced mission" (6/19/21)

 …and there are many other entertaining appliances for the bathroom.

"Are you OK?" (11/2/25)