Gizmodo
The winner of Electrolux's Design Lab 2007 competition will be announced tomorrow in Paris, and these are the final eight products hoping to win their creator 5,000 ($7,435). The brief was to design something eco-friendly and sustainable for 2020, and sexiest is the Fog Shower by Joo Diego Schlmansky from Brazil, which consumes just two liters of water during a five-minute shower. It's all to do with the mist of microscopic water droplets, rather than a traditional shower, which uses around 20 liters for the same amount of scrub-up time.
The Fridge is pretty spanky too, no? [Electrolux Design Lab via MoCo Loco]
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funny, i didn't know soap had nuts? (Washing Machine Picture)
@DSaddict: Naa, they probably just dropped that on their way over to that composter.
Fog Shower? Nay, It appears the giant grasshoppers finally got their revenge.
"Spray on Solar Cells"? Is this like PAM for the 22nd Century?
I'm digging the fridge and the fog shower though. Straight-forward reduction in energy consumption. Soapless dishwashers and reliance on soap-nuts (whatever they are) makes me a little more nervous.
Buckminster Fuller invented a shower like that in the late 1940s, and installed it in his Dymaxion Dwelling Machines. [en.wikipedia.org]
Of course they didn't have the vaporous feminine form in the 1940s...
I can't imagine feeling clean or awake after a "fog shower." Unless it's made of caffeine and, I dunno, particles of Brillonium.
Why isn't there a hairy dude bathing? I wonder if models are appealing to everyone.
If it came with a tornado attachment they would line up for it!
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If the shower really cleans, I wouldn't mind having one of these.
I wonder how fog rinses out soap from your hair? Well, I'm hoping this works out as it will add new dimensions for sharing a shower. Love in the fog appeals to me for some reason.
The whole soap in the hair thing is a sticking point for me. In almost every scenario where a faucet or shower head is low flow, you have to drastically increase the amount of time you're using it to get the same job done with a conventional flow. Thus, I would predict the amount of water used would probably be about the same, yet you'd waste more time. Would you prefer 3 minute shower that gets soap off you fast, or a 10 minute shower that feels like a old man pissing on your head?
i'd much rather have a real shower head so cleaning hair is easier. but if they have ways to prove this works for shampoo, then I'm game. it's sexy and sleek too.
Electrolux has chosen eight finalists to compete for first place in Electrolux Design Lab 07, the fifth edition of this annual global competition.
that shower must be golden!
@OldSchoolGadgetLover: @johnnyabnormal: I'm guessing it works great with soap nuts though.
Soooo I understand how mist would make you wet like a shower, but how exactly would this get you clean?
Her butt is too bright. It's like she's mooning us and it's blinding me eyes! arrrrrg.
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