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.
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.
Using facial recognition technology, the SmartFaucet is able to identify incoming hand-washers and adjust the temperature and rate of flow to their specific preferences. It’s also networked, and has a touchscreen. Really!
Whether the laws of physics would allow something like this to happen, I do not know, but Jin Woo Han’s faucet dynamo concept for powering small electric devices with water power is a neat idea.
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.
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.
There is something downright masculine about upshifting.The feeling of power as a car kicks into gear and takes off. But what if you could get the same feeling when you brush your teeth?
