Water of the future?

[Rockefella]

Was flipping through I-am-bored when I saw this, found it to be completely and utterly awesome!

Germany's Hansa has come out with these futuristic bathroom fixtures. The metal spigot has the top portion removed, creating a visible canyon for your water to run through. As if these rectangular minimalist fixtures weren't beautiful enough, they also feature temperature sensitive LEDs lining the walls of the canyon, which illuminate the water in different colors depending on the temperature of the water (red=hot, pink=warm, blue=cold). Not that anyone really needs colored light help to discern the temperature of running water — but it is a cool feature none-the-less. Who knows, maybe it could help prevent those nasty surprises you sometimes get when washing your hands or stepping into the bath a little too quickly.

http://www.inhabitat.com/images/hansa4.jpg

http://www.inhabitat.com/images/hansa2.jpg

[Egg Nog]

Man is that ever awesome.

[my porsche]

do you have a link? preferably with contact info? my dad might be interested in this for one of his houses

[Egg Nog]

http://www.hansa.de/com/index.html

[Rockefella]

do you have a link? preferably with contact info? my dad might be interested in this for one of his houses
[ http://www.hansa.de/de/index.html ] I'm not sure if it's for sale, but have a look. For all I know they may be.

[Rockefella]

http://www.hansa.de/com/index.html
It's too bad my link is in English n00bcakes. :)

[henk4]

I think people should better start worrying about a global shortage of fresh water rather than coming up with "interesting" solutions for a bath room

[Rockefella]

I think people should better start worrying about a global shortage of fresh water rather than coming up with "interesting" solutions for a bath room
I think with advances in technology we'll find ways to recycle the water we use in our homes to levels cleaner than the water coming out of our faucets now.

[blackcat77]

It would take forever to fill your sink with that. Or even to wash your hands properly. I'll take my old fashioned faucet with water pressure, thank you.

[henk4]

I think with advances in technology we'll find ways to recycle the water we use in our homes to levels cleaner than the water coming out of our faucets now.

yes but you may have grasped that it is not unlikely that major conflicts in some parts of the world may emerge just because of the lack of fresh water, in particular in areas where we least want them such as the middle east and Central Asia

[drakkie]

yes but you may have grasped that it is not unlikely that major conflicts in some parts of the world may emerge just because of the lack of fresh water, in particular in areas where we least want them such as the middle east and Central Asia

unfortunately, a very true thing :( I hope we can do something to prevent this, but it would be quite hard.

[Egg Nog]

It's too bad my link is in English n00bcakes. :)

Haha, not any more. Okay, no more abusing my power :)

[Rockefella]

Haha, not any more. Okay, no more abusing my power :)
You evil POS. :p

[fpv_gtho]

yes but you may have grasped that it is not unlikely that major conflicts in some parts of the world may emerge just because of the lack of fresh water, in particular in areas where we least want them such as the middle east and Central Asia

The solutions simple, desalination. IIRC, many Middle Eastern countries already use it. Sydney's trying to get a $2B desalination plant finalised as we're almost under 40% of our stored water supply, some places are around 10%

[Matra et Alpine]

I think with advances in technology we'll find ways to recycle the water we use in our homes to levels cleaner than the water coming out of our faucets now.
yeah but before that California will likely have stolen all your water by then :)

[Rockefella]

yeah but before that California will likely have stolen all your water by then :)
California's got nothing on us Dirty Jerzey'anz. :)

[IWantAnAudiRS6]

It's a cool idea, but what does it involve- food colourings that make us hyperactive if we drink it? I don't like the idea of bathing in something that looks a lot like a bloody swimming pool. Bloody as in real squirty blood.

My taps do me fine, because I'm smart enough to realise that "Hot" means hot water and "Cold" means cold water.

[Matra et Alpine]

It's a cool idea, but what does it involve- food colourings that make us hyperactive if we drink it? I don't like the idea of bathing in something that looks a lot like a bloody swimming pool. Bloody as in real squirty blood.

My taps do me fine, because I'm smart enough to realise that "Hot" means hot water and "Cold" means cold water.
It's coloured LEDs :)
The water is "untouched" !!!

[my porsche]

thanks for the link egg nog and rockefella, i could read either one thought :p

[Schumacher]

I want an Hansamurano for my home :cool:

[Viper007]

i want those

[baddabang]

California's got nothing on us Dirty Jerzey'anz. :)


Accept for better drivers :D

[IWantAnAudiRS6]

That demands an "0wn3d" sticker...

Here: http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/1833/own3drally1ic.jpg

[my porsche]

dude thats so mean! that kid has downs syndrome! :eek:

[IWantAnAudiRS6]

I didn't make it! I just like it. Because it's so true.

[Spastik_Roach]

dude thats so mean! that kid has downs syndrome! :eek:

Coming from the person who threw a Gatorade bottle at a retarded kid..

[Viper007]

horrible people

[Rockefella]

Let's talk about LED coloured water eh? :)

[spi-ti-tout]

Let's talk about LED coloured water eh? :)
They're starting to remind me of the neon lights that ricers put under their Civic's. And man is it giving me a nightmare.

[Quiggs]

Color-coded water... Completely useless. Completely awesome. Why hasn't anyone thought of this sooner?

[targa]

im buying one of those right now

[whiteballz]

FPV, do you know how much water bills will rise if the desalinisation plant goes ahead?!?!

so much power to run the damned pumps, and not to mention the semi permiable film they use..

so much higher rates.. not that i care 'coz im on tank water :D

[fpv_gtho]

Prob 50-100%, although last time i checked it was 20c a kilolitre

[my porsche]

you guys lost me, what is going up?

[whiteballz]

WATER BILLS if sydney gets a desalinisation plant.

that means, that sydney, a city, will have an industrial plant, where salt water, will be cleansed, pumped through a semi permiable film, and then cleaned, treated and flouride etc added to it, then pumped to houses throughout the sydney area.

[my porsche]

WATER BILLS if sydney gets a desalinisation plant.

that means, that sydney, a city, will have an industrial plant, where salt water, will be cleansed, pumped through a semi permiable film, and then cleaned, treated and flouride etc added to it, then pumped to houses throughout the sydney area.
whats wron gwith that, or rather why are they swithching to that rather than what they have now, and i knew sydney was a city :D

[whiteballz]

the australian east coast is suffering from drought, people in some towns are using comunal baths. NO water almost. we NEED the water.

[fpv_gtho]

Cause we're in the worst draught the country's experienced in 100 years, so Syndey's primary water supply, Warragamba Dam, is down at about 40% capacity, which equates to about 40 months worth of supply

[my porsche]

ok, sow hats the problem? that it will be more expensive? how much more so?

[whiteballz]

warragamba dam has since been lowered though, last i heard it was 35%, which is totaly bad. canberra's dams were about 27% at one stage when i lived there a few months back

[fpv_gtho]

Well Goulbourns got like 10%, theyre on stage 5 restrictions and we're only stage 3

[my porsche]

wow i had no idea all this was going on



why dont they just do the salt water thing, if you need it that badly im sure some government money can be used to filter it etc?

[fpv_gtho]

Well 2 billion is alot of money for the NSW economy, it wouldnt be a federally funded initiative afterall, just state. Plus, alot of people believe it'd be better to start damming small rivers, pump water from some of the rivers along the coast which are close to 80% and reduce alot of the major water leaks around the state, without realising the only long term solution is desalination.

Just to put it into perspective though, Warragamba holds back appox. 3x the capacity of Sydney Harbour