A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Hey look! I’m on Facebook in the shower?
This Facebook themed shower curtain isn’t creepy because of the graphics or text printed on it, but rather because it assumes you’ll have people spying on you while you take a shower!
And, while it may be meant for couples or roommates comfortable with sharing their shower time with others, I’m sure even in those situations it would get old quickly, prompting them to wonder “where did you put the plain old shower curtain I used to know and love?”
Business travelers don’t have time for a long soak.
Many hotels across the United States are doing away with the bathtub. These hotel chains use the freed-up space to install ever more luxurious showers.
People who regularly swim in chlorinated pools or take lots of showers or baths are at an increased risk of cancer.
Swimming too much – or even taking too many baths or showers – could increase the risk of developing bladder cancer, warn environmental health experts. Carcinogenic chemicals called trihalomethanes (THMs), created as a byproduct of chlorinating water, can be absorbed through the skin, they say.
New movement turning their noses up at cleanliness.
Want to save water? A growing number of Americans have a novel solution: don’t wash. Turning up their noses at the US culture of cleanliness – 93 per cent of the country’s adults say they wash their hair every day – these few shun showers and eschew deodorants, adopting the slogan: “Smell more like yourself”.
Ideas often come to people in the shower.
Essayist and programmer Paul Graham realized that the idea one thinks about when allowed to think freely—in the shower, for example—is more than just a quiet obsessions. It’s a “Top idea,” and it influences every other thought, too. Here’s how…
Continue reading… “Consider What Your “Top Idea” is Making You Do”
You are sound asleep when suddenly a piercing noise jolts you out of bed. You slowly slink to the bathroom and flip on the lights. Your eyes are assaulted with the goriest of sights – a shower curtain smeared with bloody hand prints and a bath mat stained with bloody footprints. Your heart is now racing; there’s no way you’re going back to sleep now. Which is perfect because the piercing noise was your alarm clock, the gory sight was your new Horror Movie Shower Curtain & Bath Mat, you’re now fully awake, and it’s time to get ready for work. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Scary Horror Movie Shower Curtain And Bath Mat”
This shower head has 96 programmable LEDs of various colors to provide a surreal shower-in-the-dark experience. Sounds pretty cool until you realize that this experience will cost you over four grand US. £2,799.00, to be exact.
A new bathmat made of moss is kept alive by the water that drips from your body as you dry.
When it comes to intimate design, as in bathroom fixtures, some designers look like they’re trying too hard. For what, I’m not sure. But the Private Wellness Shower by Gessi of Italy is a classy design that caters to every water loving creature.
Good health is in your hands, it is often said. And, now a new study has suggested that washing hands is not only an easy way of preventing infection, but it can also affect one’s moral judgement.
If you live in an apartment or older home, your bathroom is probably hurting for space. A sink, a shower stall, and a toilet in your bathroom leave but a few extra square feet to turn around.
Continue reading… “Vertabrae – A Vertical Space Saving Bathroom”
You won’t have your grandparents over to your posh, colorful apartment in Tokyo while living at the Reversible Destiny Lofts. Designed by NY-based architects Arakawa & Gins (who, between you and me, need to pick some different colors for their website), these units are packed full of all sorts of hurdles only the youthful could put up with: uneven floors, balcony doors you have to crawl through, spherical rooms, blinding colors, transparent showers – the list goes on.