Waterpebble gets water-wasters out of the shower

cnet ^ | March 10, 2010 | Leslie Katz

[Flavius]

It's easy to lose track of how long your shower's getting--especially when it's 10 degrees out and the only thing that roused you from bed was the vision of a steamy cascade of water. Well, Waterpebble is here to guilt you out of your wasteful ways.

The little round device monitors water going down the drain. It records the length of your first Waterpebble shower and uses that as a benchmark, then indicating via a series of gently flashing "traffic lights" when you need to get out of the shower already! Green tells you to start showering, amber means you're halfway through, and red means you should get ready to brave the icy air. (Wait, where's the light that tells you to stop singing before everyone in the house suffers permanent hearing loss?)

[Flavius]

Desalination, The Game Has Now Changed, MDU and Water Enabled Technologies.

Read more: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/desalination-the-game-has-now,1203537.shtml#ixzz0idHP1AxC

[martin_fierro]

The perfect place for that little gadget would be the toilet.

[DJ MacWoW]

True power means to be able to control every facet of peoples lives.

[ozark hilljilly]

I cannot understand the mentality of those who actually want and demand a gizmo like that.

[OldSmaj]

Algore getting a kickback on this crap device?

[Clara Lou]

What about common sense or a kitchen timer?

[McLynnan]

There’s a fool born every minute. On my way to a nice, long, guilt free hot shower.

[Marty62]

HAD ENOUGH YET..everyone.

[La Lydia]

Another device to wring every last bit of pleasure out of life, courtesy of the enviro-wackos.

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy” --

H.L. Mencken

[reagan_fanatic]

Funny - I always thought common sense and the desire to save money by keeping it short would govern how long I took a shower. Now I know better - someone else has to tell me!

[Dem Guard]

I find it easier to tell the wife the water heater will run out of water after ten minutes. Then I turn off the hot water to prove it to her when she takes extra long showers. (She doesn't know it won't every run out of hot water.) lol

[Vaquero]

efff them..

I will take my showers as long and as hot as I want to....

and if zer0’s thugs come to my door to put some sort of device on my shower....I will introduce them to my devices and they flow HOT and contain lead.

[kenth]

So, it doesn’t shock you? Doesn’t let out a piercing alarm? It doesn’t cut the flow of water? It just sits there and flashes an LED at you?

lol

[RC one]

yeah, I better get that done too before the little lady uses up all the hot water in the house. I think maybe she could use this device.

[americanophile]

"The battery will last for four to six months with average use and cannot be reused"

Sounds wasteful.

[MaxMax]

Talking cars did really well back in the 80’s. /Nope

[FLAMING DEATH]

"Green tells you to start showering, amber means you're halfway through, and red means you should get ready to brave the icy air get a crowbar and smash the little busybody device back to oblivion and continue your 20 minute shower in peace."

There. Fixed it.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I’m staying in the steamy water until I look like a Shar Pei.

[kenth]

Oh, and I wonder if his lawyers are ready for the lawsuit when the first leftist loses it and stomps the thing, sending a PC board into their foot.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Quit complaining... It could contain a hologram of a nude Nancy Pelosi.

[PLMerite]

“It doesn’t cut the flow of water?”

Don’t worry, that’ll be Waterpebble 2.0.

[gov_bean_ counter]

"The battery will last for four to six months with average use and cannot be reused"

Probably shouldn't change the battery in the shower, with the water running...

[Hardastarboard]

Talking cars did really well back in the 80’s.

"Hey, did you know your car tells jokes?"

"No, really?"

"Yep. When is a door not a door?" (Opens door)

Mechanical voice - "A door is ajar"

/groans

[dennisw]

Nice hot shower and use a scrub brush. Better than hot and long

[Dr.Zoidberg]

I will shower for as long and with as hot a water as I bloody well choose as long as I’m paying the bills.

Take your pebble and insert it where the sun doesn’t shine you econazi bastages!

[dljordan]

“HAD ENOUGH YET..everyone.”

I feel like I’ve been playing Whack-a-Mole for thirty years. It just never stops.

[Spartan79]

In Kalifornia they’re already investigating devices which allow the authorities to control the temperature in your house. Can devices to control the length and temperature of your shower be far behind.

[dalereed]

screw them!

I’ll shower as long as the hot water lasts!

If that doesn’t suit me, i’ll change from a 40 to a 50 gallon water heater!

[FrdmLvr]

There is no such thing as wasting water or using it up. The water eventually filters back into the water cycle or the system after municipalities extract the waste from it.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

[hoosierham]

The municipalities are also very good at extracting taxes from the water!

[Right Wing Assault]

She doesn't know it won't every run out of hot water.

What kind/size heater do you have?

[gathersnomoss]

Will a guilt ridden liberal showering with a Waterpebble be able to clean up after using a single sheet of toilet paper after a massive gassive?

Marxist boot-licking idiots.

[gathersnomoss]

Will a guilt ridden liberal showering with a Waterpebble be able to clean up after using a single sheet of toilet paper after a massive gassive?

Marxist boot-licking idiots.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

great comment- it hit my funnybone just the right way- you made my day!

[Dem Guard]

It’s an 80 gal electric tank. Their is just two of us so I have never seen it run out of hot water.

[MNDude]

That’s great!!!

[Right Wing Assault]

OK, that ought to do it! Some years back, the five of us had a 40 gal and there were a few cold showers.

[xp38]

Well thanks for that mental image! /sarc

[LibLieSlayer]

I have a well... I will defend my shower with deadly force.

LLS

[sjmjax]

I’d like to tell them where they can stick their “Waterpebble” and it’s not in my shower!

[pappyone]

Seems like you might need another model with an extended timer for when two are in the shower, he he.

[houeto]

I spent my money on a Jungle Bucket.

See tagline.

[jmcenanly]

Actually, the guys in the picture would have appreciated the beer, as water was more often than not undrinkable, and the fat, as cattle were leaner then and wild game leaner still. What is very strange is that the Puritans consider those things evil which distracted from the worship of the Creator. Who do the eco-puritans worship?

[fnord]

Liberalism is the new Puritanism ...

Liberalism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be free and happy.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Piss off, Waterpebble. The first thing I do when I get a new shower head is remove that flow restricter thing.

[bert]

Black means it is guts were crushed

[muir_redwoods]

The planet is 75% covered in water and the sun does a pretty fair job of putting a whole bunch of it into the atmosphere every day where it rains down on us as clean, fresh water.

There is no shortage of water; it's a distribution issue.

[FourPeas]

The only possible thing I can come up with is they have teenagers who spend waaaaaay too much time in the shower.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

“Modern man is being prepared to live a life of slavery in the most exacting sense.”