Tag: BATHROOM

A U.K. industrial design student has discovered a way to harness energy each time a toilet is flushed or a bathtub is drained. According to Creative Boom, Tom Broadbent's HighDro Power works much like a miniature hydroelectric dam, inside your building's sewage pipes. When water drains from a toilet, tub, sink or any other appliance, it travels down the pipes, through the device and spins four ...

Many of us here at Switched do some of our best thinking in the bathroom. But if our bathrooms looked anything like the Flaming Lips' magical mystery tour of a powder room, we can't even fathom the kinds of posts we'd be penning. DesignMilk has photos of mastermind Wayne Coyne's newly renovated bathroom in his Oklahoma City home, and, as you can see, it's breathtakingly trippy. The loo, ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. Cumulatively, ...

If you're a grown man, you've more than likely found yourself in this situation: it's 2 a.m., you've had enough booze to knock out Andre the Giant, and your bladder feels like an overfilled water balloon that could explode at any second. What do you do? Stumble to the bathroom, unzip those pants, and say a prayer. Because that urinal looks no bigger than a thimble (if you can even figure out, ...

What's more relaxing after a long day of work than easing into a bathtub filled with warm water? Watching television while doing that very thing, of course. Forget about reading a book; a new tub will change the way you bathe. According to Unplggd, the TV Tub, designed by Karim Rashid, features a waterproof television built into the sleek, one-piece tub. (The TV's brand and size are conspicuously ...

Usually, the Japanese put the U.S. (and most of the Western world) to shame when it comes to top-notch tech. They've got all the advanced robots, phones with crazy features, and of course, mind-blowing toilets. While we're stuck with water-wasting, cold and emotionless porcelain devices that do nothing other than flush away human waste, the Japanese get lavatories with automatic, heated seats, ...

For all you bathroom American Idols, an Italian company has just the product to take your morning routine to the next level. As profiled in DVICE, Stocco's Maitre bathroom mirror connects to an MP3 player, plays music through a set of built-in speakers, and features touchscreen controls on its surface. That's right; this product helps you sing and groom yourself at the same time. It also ...

Are you having a tough time finding something to do with that perfect photograph you took while on summer vacation? What about that picture of your significant other sitting on the front porch? Still searching for just the right spot in the house to place that photo of your dog swimming in the lake? Well, if you're struggling with these questions, the folks over at PhotoShowerCurtain.com (which ...

For those of you who believe kids today lack any semblance of public decorum, we've got some recent statistics that just might back up your nostalgic grumblings. iGR, a market consultant firm, recently polled 1,000 mobile phone users, ages 18 to 65, and discovered that 42-percent of them claim to make calls and send text messages while in the bathroom. The age group most likely to be a public ...

We love you Twitter, we really do, but we're beginning to think we need a little space. Not a breakup, per say, but a break. No, it's not the Oprah thing. No, it's not even Ashton and Demi. That's very nice of you to offer to kick them off, we appreciate it. What is it then? Well, to be honest, it's the toilet. ...

The most annoying thing about cell phones -- for both owners and the people around them -- is that often they go off in the most inappropriate places. We hit the streets and asked a few folks to share some of their most embarrassing accidental cell phone ringing stories. Some of the answers also got us wondering: Is it okay to take a phone call in the bathroom? To find out, click ...

Thank heavens -- the $154 million water recycling system, which is designed to convert sweat, moisture and urine into an ingestible fluid, um, works. According to NASA, the Urine Processor Assembly (UPA) managed to get through three rigorous testing sessions, and apparently that was good enough for officials to leave it in orbit. So yeah, theoretically we now have a way to keep long-term space ...

You've got to have questionable character to steal from anybody, but it takes a special type of person (without any respect for humanity) to prey on a 91-year-old woman. That's exactly what a thief in New Jersey did this week after posing as a water inspector to get into the senior's apartment and rob her blind, NJ.com reports. What he did next would be funny if it weren't so cruel. After ...

We already know that a solid chunk of Britons use mobile internet while in the throes of passion, and now Captain Obvious (today known as Nokia) has awkwardly landed to tell the world that Americans do too. A recent survey, which we can only imagine was absolutely thrilling to conduct, found that some 53-percent of working Americans "have been interrupted by a work-related phone call or e-mail ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/TV_In_The_Tub_Sony_Introduces_Waterproof_Bravia_Television'; It's round, white, and floats in the tub and goes by the name XDV-W600 -- the latest Bravia TV to numb the mind. The little 1-Seg set features a 4-inch, 16.7-million color, 272 x 480 pixel LCD; AM/FM tuner; 2GB of internal memory to record up to 10-hours of 1-Seg television broadcasts; and up to ...