Plumbing

Kohler’s Newest Bidet Finally Brings Alexa and Google to Your Butt

It's one of the many new connected bathroom fixtures the company is debuting at CES 2024.

Gadgets Florence Ion Jan 5

Heated Mugs, Electric Desk Mats, and Other Essential Tech For Keeping Warm This Winter

The frigid months will soon be upon us, but these gadgets will keep you warm and toasty.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Dec 1

Camping Actually Sounds Enjoyable With this Portable, Gas-Powered Mattress Heater

The heater runs on the same propane tanks you use to cook campsite meals.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jun 30

Hot Tub Crime Machine: Jacuzzi Smart Tubs Left Personal Info Exposed

Jacuzzi's smart tubs unwittingly left owners' personal details fully exposed for months until the issue was quietly resolved, a security researcher said.

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky Jun 22

Bronx Apartment Fire Disaster Shows Why Energy Efficiency Isn’t Just a Climate Issue

A space heater likely caused New York's deadliest fire in decades. To ensure a safer, more comfortable future for all, we need better buildings.

Environmental Justice Molly Taft Jan 10

Moen’s New Smart Faucets Can Be Controlled Entirely With Gestures

Without handles, you start and stop the flow of water and control the temperature with hand motions.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 3

Kohler’s New Smart Water Monitor Can Help You Find Leaky Pipes

The new device, which comes in DIY and pro versions, promises to monitor your home's water usage to save money (and water).

Gadgets Florence Ion Jan 3

California’s Quest for Water Could Drive Up Carbon Emissions

Water is a huge electricity suck—and emissions could rise if the state doesn't get more efficient at how it uses water.

Climate Change Molly Taft Sep 10

Joe Biden Continues His Assault on the Freedom to Buy Shitty Appliances

The Energy Department has proposed rolling back a Trump-era rollback on gas-powered water heaters, furnaces, and boilers.

Energy Brian Kahn Aug 18

You Can Finally Buy the Plumbing-Free Countertop Dishwasher We’ve Been Waiting For

The appliance requires no plumbing hookups and uses less water than hand-washing dishes.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Aug 4

In Biden’s America, You’ll Turn on the Shower and Nothing Comes Out, Just Drip Drip, Can’t Get the Soap Off

Trump's bathroom dream is set to spiral down the drain at an infuriatingly modest pace.

Tech News Whitney Kimball Jul 16

Hot Tub Twitch Is Popping Off Right Now

Last week, Twitch addressed a minor community revolt with an urgent memo. It is titled: “Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams.” And the streams were unleashed. The controversy began when streamers found their channels banned or demonetized after streaming “hot tub meta.” Streamers complained that Twitch was unclear about the reasons; the same territorial band…

Tech News Whitney Kimball May 26

Joe Biden Dares to Improve Americans’ Quality of Life With Energy Efficient Appliances

Joe Biden’s America will include energy-efficient electric vehicle chargers and heat pumps for buildings. The new standards come with a slew of other announcements on Monday around decarbonizing buildings and transportation, all of which would reportedly saddle the American economy with 700,000 jobs that pay fair wages and lower energy bills. Truly a national nightmare.…

Climate Change Brian Kahn May 17

This Replacement Bathtub Drain Is Like a Slap Chop for Hair Clogs

The only thing worse than a bathtub or shower drain that doesn’t actually drain is having to clean out the inevitable clog. The PressDrain promises to eliminate that awful chore once and for all with a pop-up mechanism that slices and dices long hair into smaller pieces so they easily wash away. If a late-night…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski May 11

In Biden’s America, You’re Going to Flick Your Furnace and Nothing Happens, Folks. Flicking Sometimes 10, 11, 12 Times

Folks, we told you it’s going to happen under Creepy Joe, the Democrat Party, they don’t want you to be able to go and turn on your water heater anymore. They’re gonna have you standing there just hitting that lever, that tiny little lever, over and over and it doesn’t get hot, the water? It…

Climate Change Tom McKay Apr 2

This Smart Pet Drinking Fountain Has Made My Cats Insufferable Water Snobs

When my household was just myself and my gray tabby Charlie, a basic water bowl and food bowl was all she (well, me really) needed. But after adopting Katniss, my black and white tuxedo kitty, our daily routines completely changed. I had to worry about Charlie stealing food from her sister, and I had to…

Other Gadgets Joanna Nelius Apr 2

I Can’t Believe I Actually Like the Alexa Shower Speaker

I’m well aware that inviting Alexa—and therefore Amazon—into my shower is probably not-so-smart. Nevertheless, I love shower karaoke and my bathroom Bluetooth speakers weren’t cutting it. Some fell down off the tile wall because of their weak suction cups. Others sounded muffled because of the shower curtain. So it was in this exasperated state that…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Victoria Song Feb 12

The State of the Art in Toilet Technology Is Lube

Researchers have developed a new method of lowering toilet water waste and preventing poo buildup—a special coating that purportedly makes feces slide down a toilet bowl like a child on a greased-up Slip ‘N Slide. In a paper published in the Nature Sustainability on Monday, Penn State University researchers explained how they developed a sprayable coating…

Health Jennings Brown Nov 18

Roman Toilets Weren’t as Sanitary as We Thought

Good plumbing is an overlooked, but vital, part of modern life. One of the first civilizations to really get a handle on it was the Romans. So why did the prevalence of parasites during Roman times increase compared to the Iron Age? Research just published in the journal Parasitology indicates that Roman toilets and bath…

Tech News Esther Inglis-Arkell Jan 7

Extremely Bad Reasons Why Waterless Urinals Were Illegal

We take it for granted that urinals flush. With each pull of the lever, gallons of clean water come to whisk away a few ounces of pee. If you think about it, it’s actually pretty wasteful, and the current drought is convincing facilities to consider waterless urinals. But these waterless bathroom contraptions have had to…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Jun 12

Plumbing

Kohler’s Newest Bidet Finally Brings Alexa and Google to Your Butt

Heated Mugs, Electric Desk Mats, and Other Essential Tech For Keeping Warm This Winter

Camping Actually Sounds Enjoyable With this Portable, Gas-Powered Mattress Heater

Hot Tub Crime Machine: Jacuzzi Smart Tubs Left Personal Info Exposed

Bronx Apartment Fire Disaster Shows Why Energy Efficiency Isn’t Just a Climate Issue

Moen’s New Smart Faucets Can Be Controlled Entirely With Gestures

Kohler’s New Smart Water Monitor Can Help You Find Leaky Pipes

California’s Quest for Water Could Drive Up Carbon Emissions

Joe Biden Continues His Assault on the Freedom to Buy Shitty Appliances

You Can Finally Buy the Plumbing-Free Countertop Dishwasher We’ve Been Waiting For

In Biden’s America, You’ll Turn on the Shower and Nothing Comes Out, Just Drip Drip, Can’t Get the Soap Off

Hot Tub Twitch Is Popping Off Right Now

Joe Biden Dares to Improve Americans’ Quality of Life With Energy Efficient Appliances

This Replacement Bathtub Drain Is Like a Slap Chop for Hair Clogs

In Biden’s America, You’re Going to Flick Your Furnace and Nothing Happens, Folks. Flicking Sometimes 10, 11, 12 Times

This Smart Pet Drinking Fountain Has Made My Cats Insufferable Water Snobs

I Can’t Believe I Actually Like the Alexa Shower Speaker

The State of the Art in Toilet Technology Is Lube

Roman Toilets Weren’t as Sanitary as We Thought

Extremely Bad Reasons Why Waterless Urinals Were Illegal

Amazon Is Sticking With ‘Rings of Power’ to the End

Trump Is Reportedly Going Full Steam Ahead with the Golden Dome

‘Kamen Rider’ Is Ready to Take on the World

Twitter Just Can’t Stop Leaking Movies

The ‘Mass Effect’ Show is Getting Rewritten to Get Greenlit

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‘Cognitive Surrender’ Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains

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