Have ever had to wake up half asleep with your body still yearning for the comfort of your bed but really had to hit the can? As your mind wanders around trying to find the toilet seat you are suddenly shocked with that familiar electric chill from the ice cold rim. Your whole body tingles with horror, the hair at the back of your neck stands up, and you let out a sharp shriek of terror.

More and more people fall victim to the dreaded early morning toilet seat. Everybody needs a break from this routine. We need something to look forward to our regular morning dump.

What better way to perk up our spirits than really cool toilet seats. Studies have shown that there is a link between regular bowel movement and the location, condition, and general environment of a bathroom. Who would want to use someone else's can or a downright dirty public toilet? To satisfy this primal instinct people have gotten creative. Toilet seats nowadays have become a canvas of the human imagination. W have come into an era of cool toilet seats.

Leonardo Deviance would be proud to find out that cool toilet seats are now the latest trend in painting. From butterfly motifs to SpongeBob Square pants paintings, the possibility of the regular toilet seat as an outlet of creative human expression now seems endless. It's amazing how these simple bathroom appliances can be turned into masterpieces, cool toilet seats.

Cool toilet seats can be made wherever and with whatever. Dalton Stevens, the self proclaimed Button King of South Carolina, USA proved that fact. Stevens, suffering from insomnia, got up one night and decided to sew buttons on his denim suit. Two years and ten months later, he still couldn't sleep and his suit ended up having 16, 333 buttons and weighing over 15 pounds. Since then, Stevens' glutton for buttons expanded. Until one day he decided to stick buttons to, yes, and a toilet seat! Although this one isn't used as it is supposed to be, this counts as one of those very cool toilet seats indeed.

In Turkey, you can find the first and fully automatic toilet seat cover. This unique innovation promises a high standard quality of hygiene. It is basically used as a barrier between a person's skin and the surface of public toilet bowls eliminating any possible hygienic or health risks. That's paying attention to details. So if you find yourself in a public place, cringing in pain and there's no clean and reliable public toilet in sight, take a deep breath and remember that there are cool toilet seats with contraption somewhere in Turkey.

More and more creative innovations have indeed surfaced since that shriek of cold terror. Silly and sophisticated cool toilet seats have made their marks on the 21^st century. From built-in “sprinklers” to voice activated toilet bowls, man truly outdid himself. If there is a golden toilet bowl that exists, I'd give it as a trophy to the ones that have turned this little piece of everyday facility and turned it into something cool. What? It does exist?! There goes my idea of the year award.