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Electrolux Design Lab Finalists Biting Their Nails as the Winner is Announced
Posted by Addy Dugdale at 10:51 PM on November 27, 2007
The winner of Electrolux's Design Lab 2007 competition will be announced tomorrow in Paris, and these are the final eight products hoping to win their creator €5,000 ($8,450). The brief was to design something eco-friendly and sustainable for 2020, and sexiest is the Fog Shower by Joo Diego Schlmansky from Brazil, which consumes just two litres of water during a five-minute shower. It's all to do with the mist of microscopic water droplets, rather than a traditional shower, which uses around 20 liters for the same amount of scrub-up time.
The Fridge is pretty spanky too, no? [Electrolux Design Lab via MoCo Loco]
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
Ian
Posted November 28, 2007 9:56 AM
What is up with all of the imported gallery pictures!?!
Please import the large pictures and not the thumbnails. A gallery of thumbnails seems pretty pointless doesn't it??
I hate having to go to the US site just to see large versions of the pictures!
chemicalwelfare
Posted 2:11 PM 27/11/07
i'd much rather have a real shower head so cleaning hair is easier. but if they have ways to prove this works for shampoo, then I'm game. it's sexy and sleek too.
chemicalwelfare
johnnyabnormal
Posted 12:53 PM 27/11/07
The whole soap in the hair thing is a sticking point for me. In almost every scenario where a faucet or shower head is low flow, you have to drastically increase the amount of time you're using it to get the same job done with a conventional flow. Thus, I would predict the amount of water used would probably be about the same, yet you'd waste more time. Would you prefer 3 minute shower that gets soap off you fast, or a 10 minute shower that feels like a old man pissing on your head?
johnnyabnormal
OldSchoolGadgetLover
Posted 12:18 PM 27/11/07
I wonder how fog rinses out soap from your hair? Well, I'm hoping this works out as it will add new dimensions for sharing a shower. Love in the fog appeals to me for some reason.
OldSchoolGadgetLover
gadgetmom
Posted 11:55 AM 27/11/07
If the shower really cleans, I wouldn't mind having one of these.
gadgetmom
ANoel
Posted 11:49 AM 27/11/07
If it came with a tornado attachment they would line up for it!
[gizmodo.com]
ANoel
JJ910
Posted 11:12 AM 27/11/07
Why isn't there a hairy dude bathing? I wonder if models are appealing to everyone.
JJ910
Crashproof
Posted 10:58 AM 27/11/07
I can't imagine feeling clean or awake after a "fog shower." Unless it's made of caffeine and, I dunno, particles of Brillonium.
Crashproof
geschmidtt
Posted 9:52 AM 27/11/07
Buckminster Fuller invented a shower like that in the late 1940s, and installed it in his Dymaxion Dwelling Machines. [en.wikipedia.org]
Of course they didn't have the vaporous feminine form in the 1940s...
geschmidtt
92BuickLeSabre
Posted 9:23 AM 27/11/07
"Spray on Solar Cells"? Is this like PAM for the 22nd Century?
I'm digging the fridge and the fog shower though. Straight-forward reduction in energy consumption. Soapless dishwashers and reliance on soap-nuts (whatever they are) makes me a little more nervous.
92BuickLeSabre
Windhawk
Posted 8:13 AM 27/11/07
Fog Shower? Nay, It appears the giant grasshoppers finally got their revenge.
Windhawk
strider_mt2k
Posted 7:28 AM 27/11/07
@DSaddict: Naa, they probably just dropped that on their way over to that composter.
strider_mt2k
DSaddict
Posted 7:22 AM 27/11/07
funny, i didn't know soap had nuts? (Washing Machine Picture)
DSaddict
2007 Electrolux Design Lab Finalists on Yanko Design
Posted 8:01 PM 27/11/07
2007 Electrolux Design Lab Finalists on Yanko Design
Spaceboy
Posted 10:03 PM 27/11/07
that shower must be golden!
Spaceboy
itchytooth
Posted 11:41 PM 27/11/07
@OldSchoolGadgetLover: @johnnyabnormal: I'm guessing it works great with soap nuts though.
itchytooth
JakeLL
Posted 2:04 AM 28/11/07
Soooo I understand how mist would make you wet like a shower, but how exactly would this get you clean?
JakeLL
ninjatales
Posted 2:54 AM 28/11/07
Her butt is too bright. It's like she's mooning us and it's blinding me eyes! arrrrrg.
ninjatales