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Inflatable Shower Curtain: Be Green Or Be Suffocated

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Sure, there are other methods of conserving water in the shower, but none of them put your life on the line like the inflatable shower curtain from designer Elisabeth Buecher.

https://gizmodo.com/shower-monitor-ruining-your-life-in-eight-minutes-or-l-179551

My approach to design can sometimes appear shockingly radical but I have got different reasons to legitimize that. An alarm clock is not what we can call a pleasurable object. It is often even painful to be awoken by it. However it is a necessary object, which regulates our lives and the society. That’s what I call the “design for pain and for our own good”. Some of my designs seem to constrain people, acting like an alarm clock, awaking people to the consciousness of their behavior and giving them limits. People often need an external signal to behave more. In France the government added thousands of new radars on the roads to fight excessive speed. And it worked: there are far less people killed on the roads of France today. I call it “design of threat and punishment” and I use it as an educational tool.

Yeah, she’s not fooling around here. If you don’t wrap things up in a timely fashion the curtain will inflate until you are a naked, shivering prisoner in your own shower. By the looks of things, if you aren’t careful the damn thing could completely cut off your air supply. Personally, I would rather go with the Eco-Drop Shower—the philosophy is the same but it’s far less deadly. [MoCo Loco via DVICE]

https://gizmodo.com/eco-drop-shower-gives-you-the-boot-for-wasting-water-370473

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