While you can easily spend thousands on technological upgrades like advanced smart showers or smart mirrors, there are also plenty of ways to upgrade your bathroom without breaking the piggy bank. We’ve collected ten tech upgrades for your bathroom that will be relatively easy on your wallet and give you some cool new features to show off to guests.

TECHO Touchless Toilet Flush Kit

Want to make your toilet flush with a simple wave of your hand? With the TECHO Touchless Toilet Flush Kit, you’ll never have to touch the handle again. Just wave your hand over the sensor attached to the top of the tank and the toilet flushes. Powered by 4 AA batteries, the battery life is roughly 36,000 flushes. 

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KOHLER Moxie Showerhead and Wireless Speaker

Integrating a Bluetooth-enabled wireless speaker into the showerhead, Kohler’s Moxie showerhead can stream personalized music playlists, news and other audio while you are cleaning up. With a battery that offers up to seven hours of run time, the speaker can stream from sources up to 32 feet away. It’s available in 2.0 and 2.5 GPM versions. Both versions can often be found on sale for less than $100. 

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LumiLux Advanced Motion Sensor LED Toilet Light

While these types of toilet LEDs became popular after an appearance on Shark Tank, this particular model has achieved a 5-star rating on Amazon. The LumiLex light includes a motion and light detection sensor in order to maximize the battery life, offers 16 colors to choose from, and includes a 5-lever dimmer to adjust the brightness. Retail price is less than $20 and often falls as low at $10.

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Delta Exhaust Bath Fan with Bluetooth Speaker

Equipped with a Bluetooth 3.0 speaker, this bathroom fan is specifically designed for quiet operation operating at just 1.0 sones. This type of design is ideal for anyone that wants to hide a Bluetooth speaker away from guests. It’s priced just under $100.

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UltraTouch Heated Toilet Seat

Ideal for anyone that lives in a cooler climate, the UltraTouch heated toilet seat will increase the temperature of your toilet seat by roughly 20 to 25 degrees above room temperature.  Of course, the downside is that you need an accessible plug near your toilet. While this model retails for less than $100, you also may want to check out the $150 Brondell model which combines an LED light and variable temperature settings.

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Weight Gurus Bluetooth Body Fat Scale

Ideal for fitness nuts or just someone that wants to keep an eye on their weight, upgrade that old scale in your bathroom to one that connects to your smartphone. This well-reviewed model on Amazon typically sells around $60 and measures weight, BMI, body fat, muscle mass, water weight, & bone mass. It measures up to 400 pounds and lets up to eight users connect / track their weight.

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Loctek Adjustable iPad Stand with TP holder

Have an old iPad sitting around collecting dust? Why not install it in your bathroom for a little distraction while you take your place to the porcelain throne? This iPad stand hold your toiler paper and is adjustable for easy viewing. The arm swivels 360 degrees and grips tablets between 7 and 12 inches. It also retails for less than $50.

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Oral-B Pro 5000 Rechargeable Electric Toothbrush

While retail on this brush is $150, you can normally find it on sale in the sub-$80 range. What’s interesting about this brush is that it connects to your smartphone to track brushing over time. Ideal for kids that like to skip brushing time, parents can track brushing on the app and make sure no days are skipped. It also has a 2-minute timer so you know when to switch brushing zones in your mouth.

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Charmin Dash Button (Amazon)

While it’s probably better to hit that button prior to running out of toilet paper, the Charmin Amazon Dash button is ideal when you need to restock up on rolls. The Dash button is paired with your favorite Charmin product and setup with your 1-click order settings on Amazon. If you don’t like Charmin, Amazon also has buttons for Quilted Northern and Angel Soft. Buttons are $5 and Amazon offers a $5 credit on your first order, basically free.

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DreamSpa AquaFan Rainfall LED Shower Head

There are plenty of LED shower heads for less than $100, but this one includes a temperature gauge as well as colors that shift from blue-to-red to indicated shifting from cold-to-hot. There are no batteries required since it’s powered by the water. Keep in mind, this is a rainfall shower head, so don’t expect the pressure of a more traditional shower head.

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10 Tech Upgrades for the Bathroom less than $100

Keeping track of my weight and body fat has always seemed like a depressing task to me, especially since my post-twenties metabolism is starting to slow down and my general aversion to exercise isn’t exactly beneficial to my body. Plopping myself down on the couch after work and watching Netflix season marathons of Warehouse 13 and Breakout Kings isn’t helping either.

Last year, my fiancée and I purchased two Fitbit Ultras in order to keep track of our general activity during the day. The tiny device has encouraged us to take more walks and visit the gym more often. However, while the data is interesting, getting the most out of a Fitbit account involves active participation to catalog the calories in your daily meals as well as logging sleep habits, activities and your weight from time to time.

Enter the Fitbit Aria

The Fitbit Aria is an Internet-connected bathroom scale that automatically uploads weight and body fat information to your Fitbit account. While I still have to keep track of what I’m eating to monitor my caloric intake, the Aria takes weight monitoring off the plate for myself and my fiancée.

Setting up the device is ridiculously easy. After spending a few minutes connecting to my home’s wireless network and to our Fitbit accounts, we simply entered initials into the scale for each of us. For the most part, the scale will automatically recognize who you are when standing on it. If the scale is confused for any reason, you simply tap your foot on the scale to select the correct initials. I’m still using the factory batteries that came with the scale.

[pullquote]Over the last six months, I’ve never had an issue with uploading data over my home’s wireless network.[/pullquote]According to Fitbit, up to eight registered users can use the scale to relay weight and body fat information back to their personal Fitbit account. Guests can also use the scale to measure their weight, but the data isn’t uploaded anywhere.

To measure body fat percentage, you have to be barefoot when stepping up on the scale. The scale sends a slight electrical current through your body, thus pregnant women, young kids and anyone with a pacemaker shouldn’t use the Aria. I’ve found the body fat percentage to be deadly accurate. I’m familiar with the manual way to measure my body fat and it’s almost identical to that reading. It’s also very consistent on each reading, an issue that plagues older bathroom scales that measure body fat. Data can be viewed on the Web version of the Fitbit dashboard or a mobile device like an iPhone.

Regarding design, it’s easily the most luxurious object in my bathroom. The polished slab of glass on the top of the scale is definitely slick. The backlight display has a soft glow, definitely not overpowering in a dim room. The only potential problem with the glass top is that it can become slippery when wet. You should weigh yourself before taking a shower, not after.

The biggest issue with the Aria isn’t functionality or design; it’s price. The MSRP on the Fitbit Aria is about $130, significantly higher than other scales on the market. For instance, this EatSmart Precision scale has rave Amazon reviews, tracks all the same data and can be found on sale regularly between $50 to $70. You are paying a premium for automation, basically allowing the scale and your Fitbit account to keep track of all that information for you. However, it’s important to note that the Aria is cheaper than other Internet-connected weight / body fat scales like the Withings WS-50.

Is It Worth It?

That really depends on how conscientious you are about monitoring your health. Personally, I’m absolutely terrible at it. Having the Aria keeping track of my weight has been really helpful for me and I’ve lost 7.5 pounds since the start of the year. Not a huge amount, but heading in the correct direction.

The knowledge about my weight and body fat sticks with me when I’m making a decision to skip dessert at dinner or perhaps hit the treadmill before work. As much as I previously wanted to ignore my weight, I’m happy that I did. Make sure you pair the Aria with another Fitbit product like the Flex, Zip or One to get the most bang for your buck.

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