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In the future, we can only hope that turning on one’s tap will require a pseudo-sexual air stroke. Groping is so pedestrian.
You don’t spend three months of the year circumnavigating the globe on your houseboat. You don’t have a closet full of designer loafers. You’re not married to a supermodel. So what: your sink has a mini-waterfall LED tap.
Signorini’s ceiling-mounted faucet is an interesting design for sure, but it might also be practical for people who tend to sleep in late. Just wash your hair and go.
The folks at Dwell have tapped cognitive scientist and design consultant Don Norman to offer up his unique opinion on the design of several faucets—demonstrating that there are people out there that think way too hard about this stuff.
Mmmm…municipal water. Delicious and nutritious. Koehler Fluid faucet concept aims to make drinking from the tap a little easier with a design that can can be adjusted upward to form a drinking fountain.
There’s just something about this sleek, black, digital Ondus Digitecture faucet that makes me wish it would speak to me in William Daniels voice.
A couple in Colorado thought they detected the scent of gas coming from their tap water. The test was simple: put a match to their water. What resulted is both awesome and terrifying.
Note: This faucet-vase combination will not excuse the rest of your grungy tenement. [Craziest Gadgets]
It appears that Burno Sacco, the former head of Mercedes Benz design, has given up the luxury car biz to focus on creating crazy, jacked up faucets like the Hansa Latriva.
