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Imagine being able to take a shower or wash your hair on-the-go, indoors or outdoors, without any dripping water or the need for a towel, as you’re left almost completely dry. The makers of Yoomiily are promising just that, with what they claim is the … Continue reading World’s first portable shower-dryer lets you wash anywhere drip-free
A good shower is a beautiful, rejuvenating experience. Contrarily, a shower that’s either too hot or too cold becomes a harrowing trial of endurance. [Ben Holmen] has been musing on …read more Continue reading A Call For Better Shower Temperature Controls
You don’t need the full force of the water for every second that you’re in the shower, but constantly turning it up and down at the taps can be tricky. That’s where the Reva shower head comes in, as it automatically reduces the flow whenever you step b… Continue reading User-detecting shower head lowers the water flow when not needed
While there are now quite a few Bluetooth speakers that can be used in the shower, they all periodically need to be taken out and recharged. The Shower Power speaker is different, in that it’s continuously powered by the running shower water.Continue R… Continue reading Hydroelectric Bluetooth speaker is powered by the shower
There’s nothing quite as relaxing as a long, hot shower. This has the tendency of making the bather absent minded as to the amount of water being used, which can lead to excessive bills. [LiamOSM] built a device to monitor this instead, and calculate the cost, to boot.
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Continue reading Shower Water Monitor Tracks The Dollars and Cents
Do you have a couple of minutes? Literally and precisely, two minutes. That’s how long these ten songs play. So what? A short song is not new, but these ten songs are part of a campaign to encourage residents of Cape Town, South Africa to cap their showers at one-hundred-twenty seconds. Some of us do not have to worry about droughts or water bills, but most of us are concerned about one or both of those, and this ingenious campaign alerted people to the problem, gave them the means to time themselves, and made it pleasant, not oppressive. The songs …read more
We have bought some really amazing stuff from the Chinese online shops. We’ve also bought stuff that was… less than satisfactory, let’s say. At the prices you pay, you usually just chalk up the bad stuff as a cost of doing business. But [DiodesGoneWild] has a teardown of something that could be very dangerous if it wasn’t up to snuff: an electrically heated shower head. He says they are common in Latin America and have the nickname “suicide showers.”
We’ve seen the cute showerheads that change color, but those take batteries. What we are talking about here connects to the …read more
Continue reading Electric Shower Head Teardown Makes Us Wince
No longer content with adding value to the thermostat in the hallway or making your fridge smarter than it should be, IoT vendors are pushing into the inner sanctum of homes, the holy of holies – the bathroom. Sure, you can spend big bucks on an electronically controlled valve to turn your shower into a remote-controlled spa that shares your bathing habits with the cloud, but if you’re on a more modest budget and have the hacker spirit, you might want to check out this DIY automated shower valve with IoT features.
When we last ran into [TVMiller], he was …read more
Continue reading Start Your Day the Arduino Way with this IoT Shower Controller