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    Touch-Sensitive Faucet Is Absolute Kitchen Genius

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    Image of jcarlson30 jcarlson30
    10/20/09

    In reply to Touch-Sensitive Faucet Is Absolute Kitchen Genius
    i just install this Faucet and it is great. the only thing missing is on the soap dispenser there is not a matching black base. you also have to make sure the blue light is off, as you can shut off the water, after touching it and leave the light on and kill the batteries. I think an ac adapter is needed
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    Image of spannu spannu
    10/20/09

    @jcarlson30: But batteries are the future! #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of debbyherbenick debbyherbenick
    10/20/09

    In reply to Touch-Sensitive Faucet Is Absolute Kitchen Genius
    I love the second picture. The faucet sort of looks like the top of a heart. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of debbyherbenick debbyherbenick
    10/20/09

    In reply to Touch-Sensitive Faucet Is Absolute Kitchen Genius
    Oops duplicate.
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    Edited by debbyherbenick at 10/20/09 2:01 PM debbyherbenick was starred debbyherbenick was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/20/09

    In reply to Touch-Sensitive Faucet Is Absolute Kitchen Genius
    Even if it always defaults to cold, this is fine with me. When my hands are covered in dough or thick marinade I'd love to have something like this. I can't reach the lever with my elbow since there's a low-hanging shelf right above the fixture, so this would be really handy.
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    Edited by Kaiser-Machead at 10/20/09 10:55 AM Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    10/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I use my feet. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    10/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: How about using the back of your hand or wrist? #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of Andrew Dickerson Andrew Dickerson
    10/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: What about using a midget. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/20/09

    @Andrew Dickerson: A little person is a human being, not some sort of kitchen aid or an alarm system whenever a plane approaches. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    10/20/09

    In reply to Touch-Sensitive Faucet Is Absolute Kitchen Genius
    Great. I have touch lamps that randomly turn themselves on and off. Now the kitchen faucet will do the same thing. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    10/20/09

    In reply to Touch-Sensitive Faucet Is Absolute Kitchen Genius
    I can tell you as soon as I saw this commercial on TV over the last two+ weeks, I always look at my cats when it comes on. As a person with three adorable, and also pain in the ass, kittehs in his household, how do you stop them from turning it on? I have already proven my cats paw will work on an iTouch, so it should turn this on no problem. Just hope your sink has an overflow drain, in case you have a cat like the one above. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of FriarNurgle FriarNurgle
    10/20/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_Hates #DoucheDad: Great point. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of deliciousburglar deliciousburglar
    10/20/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_Hates #DoucheDad: does he just want a drink and not understand about his head getting in the way? #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of Gann Gann
    10/20/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_Hates #DoucheDad: Hopefully they have an override, so you can keep it off when you want to keep it off. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    10/20/09

    @deliciousburglar: I think he might have ear mites, or something itchy in his ears.

    @Gann: But then that defeats the purpose, if you have to turn off the override to turn on the faucet with a touch. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of llryuujinll llryuujinll
    10/20/09

    @deliciousburglar: he's drinking water that is dripping down his nose into his mouth. so whenever it stops dripping he goes back a dunk his head in the water #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    10/20/09

    @llryuujinll: If you watch the video all the way through, you will see he will stop with the water running down the back of his head. That is also not a drinking tongue movement. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    10/20/09

    In reply to Touch-Sensitive Faucet Is Absolute Kitchen Genius
    In the ads they show people washing off paint and stuff like that which makes sense, but who in the hell is washing paint off of their hands in the kitchen?
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    Edited by UnderLoK at 10/20/09 10:37 AM UnderLoK was starred UnderLoK was unstarred
    Image of bobman1235 bobman1235
    10/20/09

    @UnderLoK: Why wouldn't you exactly? I've certainly washed off paint in my kitchen sink - it's a lot easier than using a bathroom sink. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    10/20/09

    @bobman1235 @takeshi: Sorry I don't put stuff in my kitchen sink that could contaminate food.

    Call me crazy, but I know I'm not alone. If my hands are that dirty I go to the basement or a bathroom.
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    Edited by UnderLoK at 10/20/09 10:54 AM UnderLoK was starred UnderLoK was unstarred
    Image of vercordio vercordio
    10/20/09

    @UnderLoK: I often work with raw meat, which when ground up gets everywhere. Frankly it'd be useful as hell to not have to grab the faucet handles with my salmonella-ridden fingers.

    Plus, paint goes really well with a nice focaccia and a leggy red wine. Don't knock it till you've tried it. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    10/20/09

    @vercordio: It should probably come with a touch soap dispenser too for that price then!

    @Mr_Biggles: Your comments suck and I hate you: What?! No I cook in the kitchen, wtf are you talking about? lol
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    Edited by UnderLoK at 10/20/09 11:14 AM UnderLoK was starred UnderLoK was unstarred
    Image of torched - White Gold Wielder torched - White Gold Wielder
    10/20/09

    @UnderLoK: I usually eat my food on a plate. Maybe I've been doing it wrong. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/20/09

    @UnderLoK: It shouldn't contaminate your food so long as you properly clean the surfaces after using it. If you're repainting a kitchen, chances are you're going to get some residue on surfaces where food is normally prepared anyway, even with the tarps to protect them from splatter. I've washed all kinds of things in the sink, from regular grime to horrible gunk. I simply do a heavy disinfecting with lots of hot water. It's not a porous surface, so it shouldn't be much of an issue. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    10/20/09

    Grrrr the comments keep double posting!
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    Edited by UnderLoK at 10/20/09 12:22 PM UnderLoK was starred UnderLoK was unstarred
    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    10/20/09

    @torched: No, I know people like you throw frozen crap on a plate, toss it in the microwave, and call it good eats.

    @Kaiser-Machead: I agree, but why wash my hands to wash the sink to wash my hands? I mean, I could wash my ass in the kitchen sink too, but I wouldn't... ;)

    I just try to keep the kitchen as clean as possible, just the way I was raised I guess. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of Randy Hubbard Randy Hubbard
    10/20/09

    @UnderLoK: Did you know that your sink is the dirtiest place in your kitchen?? Do a little research. I think you'll find that paint would be one of the cleanest things in your sink. Bacteria from meat, fish, and poultry are much more dangerous than paint. I'd pick something up off the floor and eat it before I'd pick something up out of the sink and eat it (unless I had sanitized the sink first) #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of WestwoodDenizen WestwoodDenizen
    10/20/09

    @UnderLoK: I think we could all do without the arrogance.

    And if you wash paint off of your hands in the kitchen sink, the paint goes down the drain, not into your refrigerator to contaminate your food. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    10/20/09

    @Randy Hubbard: In your house maybe. In my house I use this wild thing I get from overseas called BLEACH. Maybe you've heard of it? ;)

    If you're talking "average home" it goes sponge, towels, wooden cutting boards (you know many people cut meat on them still and don't clean them properly or use oil to help seal them better), sink, counters, and plastic cutting boards.

    Most of the surface issues can be traced back to the sponge and or towels in use. They are used with soap to clean surfaces where meat was prepared without the use of bleach which means that is spread onto the counters, dishes, sink, and the like.
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    Edited by UnderLoK at 10/20/09 2:28 PM UnderLoK was starred UnderLoK was unstarred
    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    10/20/09

    @Ace0spades808: It's one of many reasons yea. This all wound up focused on the contamination thing because I didn't bother to spend the time to go over the other reasons.

    First of all the kitchen is the most expensive room in the house. Evidently I'm in the minority in that I don't risk using my kitchen as a cleanup room to wash shit off my shoe, or paint off of my hands, or grease and oil from working on the car, or some other kitchen sink I had laying out behind my garage.

    If you spend your hard earned cash on a nice kitchen or at the very least a well kept one why in the hell would you treat it like a wash tub? Over time stains will happen, the tiny scratches in your sink will begin to take on color and become harder and harder to clean.

    It's my own fault for focusing on the contamination thing, which again, was an error on my part, but there is a place for everything and that isn't in my kitchen sink. You don't have to agree, but I don't either.

    @WestwoodDenizen: I'm arrogant because I want a clean sink? What are you talking about?
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    Edited by UnderLoK at 10/20/09 2:30 PM UnderLoK was starred UnderLoK was unstarred
    Image of WestwoodDenizen WestwoodDenizen
    10/20/09

    @UnderLoK: No, you're arrogant because of a few of the comments you've made. Telling someone that you know they eat frozen crap and saying you were just raised to be clean. Or that you're different from us because you don't use your kitchen to clean shit off your shoe.

    Anyway, it's fine, you just view your kitchen differently from a lot of us, in that most people aren't particularly zealous about keeping our kitchen pristine. It's certainly a bit healthier to keep it spotless, but I don't view the sink as a prep station. It's more of a place for the food I don't want anymore. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    10/20/09

    In reply to Touch-Sensitive Faucet Is Absolute Kitchen Genius
    It's a good thing that they kept the normal controls to the side since I've had nothing but problems with touch sensitive stuff like this. Every lamp I've bought that was touch to activate now must be controlled in some other way since the touch sensing is the first thing to break. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    10/20/09

    @Xeno: Does this mean it's battery or wired into the house power to work? Hopefully it's battery powered vs. 120 volt action. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    10/21/09

    @Yuppers: I love you: Ohh, the lights still work. They use standard 120vac. the stupid touch switch breaks and the lights lock to on all the time so I then have to use them on switched outlets or some other way to contol them. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    10/21/09

    @Xeno: Nice fail safe, I guess. But for the touch water faucet, is it 120vac or battery powered? #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    10/20/09

    In reply to Touch-Sensitive Faucet Is Absolute Kitchen Genius
    Is this really all that different than turning on the faucet with your elbow? #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of hihai411 hihai411
    10/20/09

    @Software_Goddess: you must have really really really long elbows. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    10/20/09

    @hihai411: No... I'm an adult.
    I don't require a stool to reach the sink either. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of dj_dementia dj_dementia
    10/20/09

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    But how do you control the temperature?
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    10/20/09

    @dj_dementia: It will read your mind. Trust me. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of phunnyballs phunnyballs
    10/20/09

    In reply to Touch-Sensitive Faucet Is Absolute Kitchen Genius
    I wonder how well this will last, now that I think about it. My kitchen faucet gets REALLY hot when I fill the sink up with water.

    I also wonder how do you adjust water flow. I assume that thing to the right is for water temp. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of AJ_Syrinx AJ_Syrinx
    10/20/09

    @phunnyballs: It's also for water flow. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    10/20/09

    @AJ_Syrinx: hmmmm... I dont know if I would care for this then. since just about everything I do in my kitchen faucet requires a different temperature.

    With my current faucet, I can turn it on and adjust the temp, and flow with one swoop. With this I would have to turn it on with a tap, and then adjust the flow every time I wash my hands, wash dishes, wash an apple, get a glass of water, etc. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    10/20/09

    @AJ_Syrinx: oh hey, i read your comment below about disabling the touch. So that is cool and so this is probably pretty useful to wash your hands quickly or something. #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of AJ_Syrinx AJ_Syrinx
    10/20/09

    @phunnyballs: Yeah, after reading some more it became apparent that they took a classic Delta lever, shrunk it down, and moved the faucet off to the side instead of underneath, making it bigger and touch sensitive (that's what she said...) #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of Chimaera Chimaera
    10/20/09

    In reply to Touch-Sensitive Faucet Is Absolute Kitchen Genius
    I had lamps that did this 25 years ago. Can this really be the first faucet to incorporate a touch switch? #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    10/20/09

    @Chimaera: They didn't work so good after you zapped it with a static charge :(
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    Edited by UnderLoK at 10/20/09 11:08 AM UnderLoK was starred UnderLoK was unstarred
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    10/20/09

    In reply to Touch-Sensitive Faucet Is Absolute Kitchen Genius
    Well of course it's genius! I made it! #deltatouchsensitivefaucet
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    Edited by psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! at 10/20/09 1:28 AM psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! was starred psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! was unstarred
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