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”Water Ball Ripple Sink Makes Me Want to Tinkle
If we were handy enough to build our own sinks, we'd build one exactly like this "The Ripple" faucet, designed by Smith Newnam, which equates relative ball movement to the temperature and amount of water flowing out. Hot water makes the LED glow red, while cold makes it glow blue, and the two hot and cold channels mix together in the open air to make for your desired temperature. Awesome? Definitely. Practical? Not so much. Just try moving that ball around without accidentally touching the scorching water. [Flickr via Yanko Design]
SmartSink Uses Height-Calculating Software to Save Your Back
MIT student Leonardo B has come up with an idea for a sink that positions itself depending on the height of the user and adjusts its temperature depending on what you are putting in it. (This is useful when you are nudging 6'0", while your husband struggles to hit the 3'6" mark*, even when he is wearing what he refers to as "gypsy shoes.") Video, plus explanation of how the sink works, below. More »
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Sink + Toilet Makes Dirty Hippies Happy
If you care at all for the environment, you're probably taking 2 minute showers, using recycled paper, and drive a hybrid car, which leaves plenty of water, paper, and fuel for those of us who are too lazy to care. But for you, the environmentally conscious bunch, we present the Sinkpositive. It's a sink on top of a toilet, which uses the tank (is that what it's called?) water for hand washing before using it again for poop flushing. More »
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Erosion Sink Brings Geology to the Bathroom
The Erosion Sink combines the latest in sink-related technology with the aesthetics of topographical maps to give you a unique and badass looking sink for your modern bathroom. Seriously, if I had one of these things I would spend a lot more time washing my hands. More »
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55-Gallon Drum Sink
These 55-gallon drum sinks wouldn't fit in your standard suburban home, but it's perfect for the urban-industrial look that we hear is so popular nowadays. More »
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Toilet Lid Sink
One thing about apartment hunting in New York City when you are not feelthy steenking reech is that no matter how nasty you think the last apartment you saw was, the next one will inevitably be nastier. We once looked at one in lower Manhattan that had the shower in a what was basically a closet, just off the kitchen, and the toilet in another closet at the far end of the apartment. More »
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