Gizmodo: bathtime

Too Hot or Too Cold? The Monkey's 'Fro Will Let You Know

Andi Wang — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:40:13 EDT

This $3 monkey luffa has a head full of heat-senstive hair that changes from brown to yellow when it feels your bath is hot enough for you to jump in. [Product Page via Nerd Approved]

Double Click Your Body to Cleanliness With the Soap Mouse

Elaine Chow — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:30:26 EST

We've seen washable mouses and mouses you don't need to wash before, but have you ever thought of possibly washing yourself with a mouse?

This soap from a Taiwan retailer is for people who can't bear to leave their computer peripherals behind... even in the shower. It's only $5.75 to alert all your roommates to your creepy mouse infatuation. [Zakka]

Device for the Elderly and Infirm Mistakenly Pitched to the Rich and Lazy

Adam Frucci — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:45:00 EDT

There's a fine line between being too lazy to do something and being physically unable to do something, which leads logically to the fact that there are more things in common between the very rich and the very old than you may think. Case in point, this "Neptune Portable Reclining Lift" which lux blog Born Rich deemed worthy for a "Luxurious Bath." The great thing? This is totally designed for old people too weak to lower themselves into a tub without breaking a hip.

Now, I'm no billionaire, but I'm pretty sure that the really rich don't needed an elaborate contraption to lower their fois-gras-filled bodies into their gold-plated bathtubs. I mean, as I understand it, rich people are good with money, not insanely lazy people willing to drop over $1,000 on a seat that lets them lie back in a tub without using any of their muscles. That's something that the elderly and infirm who are unable to lay back easily need.

But I do really love that this is seen as a luxury item. Next week: wheelchairs for the super-rich, allowing them to luxuriously wheel themselves around without using their legs! [Product Page via BornRich]

Disco Bath Means There's a Party In My Tub and You're All Invited

AddyDugdale — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:40:00 EDT

The Underwater Disco Light Show is a small waterproof contraption that you chuck in the tub for a full-on psychedelic bath-time experience—although, if you want really full-on, it might help to get the hallucinogens in before you strip off your clothes and your dignity and jump in. Turn it on, and LED lights in four colors whoosh around, and there's a little button to change the pattern, as well as a weight underneath so that it doesn't upend itself. Thomas and Guy-Man of Daft Punk should put these $15 gizmos on their Christmas wish-lists now. [Firebox]

Jean Nouvel's Faucets Have Touchsensing PlayStationish Buttons

Jesus Diaz — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:15:00 EDT

Like many other architects, 2008 Pritzker winner Jean Nouvel also designs home objects, like these bathroom faucets and shower with touch sensor technology on four buttons which look taken from a PlayStation gamepad. Pressing the triangles will increase or decrease the temperature, while the circle will open the water flow, and the X will close it. Triangle, triangle, square, circle + square, circle, jump will make Sofia take on Uranus with a special whip move.* [Jado via WowBathrooms]

* BattleArena Toshinden, you pervs.

Duck Radio Thermometer Makes Bath Time Efficient!

Travis Hudson — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:00:01 EDT

Rub-a-dub-dub, a convergence ducky in the tub. This ~~rubber~~ plastic ducky has a couple features. It has an LCD display that will show the current water temperature in Fahrenheit or Celsius. It also acts as a radio to make bath time that much entertaining. $25. –Travis Hudson

Product Page [Via Ubergizmo]

Wet Sounds: Waterproof Radio-DAP from JVC

www.gizmodo.com — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:56:59 EDT

Here's something for those of you who have enough time in the day to enjoy a relaxing soak in the tub and don't think that sitting in dirty water is a repulsive habit. JVC have brought out a radio and DAP player that floats alongside you in the bath, pumping out your favorite tracks (ABBA's Waterloo? Smoke On The Water?) while you scrub your back‐or have that nice laydee you picked up at CeBIT do it for you.

The XA-AW33 weights 260 grams, has 256MB of internal memory, supports MP3, WMA and WMA DRM and has a dinky little blue light LED trim. Four AA batteries will give you 15 hours of choons. It's currently only available in Japan—but then again, so are those bathhouses called Soaplands. You can see the gizmo doing what it does best after the jump.

– Ad Dugdale

The JVC radio-DAP for your bath [Akihabara News]