Gizmodo: waterfall

Toilet Waterfail

Mark Wilson — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:00:00 EDT

Constructed during a ceramics festival in China, this toilet waterfall is...well...it's darn convenient is what it is. [Izismile via Fortean Times via boingboing]

Inkjet-Like Smart Waterfall Makes Animated Falling Water Show

Kit Eaton — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:34:00 EDT

The recent waterfall installations in New York will seem just like so much plain old falling water, once you've seen this video of a computer-controlled waterfall "printing out" amazing patterns and pictures. It's in Canal City Hakata, which is a shopping and entertainment complex in Fukuoka, Japan, and seems to work using similar principles to an inkjet printer. Basically a computer is controlling hundreds of nozzles to precisely deliver water drops so that they fall forming a pattern... and that's anything from words to pictures. My faves are the eye-dazzling geometric patterns—they suffer less from the distortion caused by free-falling. Mesmerizing stuff. [Hacknmod]

How Does Jeep's Waterfall Show Work?

Jason Chen — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:50:24 EST

If you've been to any auto show with Jeep in attendance, you've probably seen that fancy waterfall thing they use to write the word "Jeep", "Toyota Sucks", and draw pictures. But how does it work?

Think of it as an ink-jet but with water that you can program patterns into. It's a bit less impressive than the Bellagio water fountain—this has 3000 valves as opposed to Las Vegas's twenty bajillion—but it's still pretty neat. We'd like one of these in our showers to get to the dirty spots we can't quite reach. You know, everywhere. – Jason Chen

Detroit Auto Show: How Jeep's Waterfall Works [Winding Road via Jalopnik]

Fire + Water = Hearthfall

Charlie White — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:45:55 EDT

Here's a combination of the soothing effects of a waterfall with the tranquil cracklings of a fire: the Hearthfall. Think of it as a facade for your fireplace, giving that focus of your living room's attention something to do during the summer. What's that? The TV is the focus of your living room? You have our sympathy.

There's a variety of styles crafted of your choice of woods and stone, and each has a back panel that can be removed to view a fire in the fireplace behind it. There's such a bunch of choices, you must sort out your configuration just like you would a PC, and these things aren't cheap, either. Some of the marble units cost well over $2000. But stare at one of these instead of the TV for a while, it'll do you some good. – Charlie White

Product Page [Hearthfalls, via Coolest Gadgets]