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Waterpebble gets water-wasters out of the shower
cnet ^ | March 10, 2010 | Leslie Katz

Posted on 03/20/2010 6:22:11 AM PDT by 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?)

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KEYWORDS: lame; pebble; planet; prison; shower; water; waterpebble
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1 posted on 03/20/2010 6:22:11 AM PDT by Flavius
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To: Flavius

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

2 posted on 03/20/2010 6:26:44 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Flavius

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


3 posted on 03/20/2010 6:27:04 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Flavius

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


4 posted on 03/20/2010 6:27:56 AM PDT by ozark hilljilly
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To: Flavius

Algore getting a kickback on this crap device?


5 posted on 03/20/2010 6:28:19 AM PDT by OldSmaj (I am an avowed enemy of islam and Obama is a damned fool and traitor. Questions?)
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To: Flavius

What about common sense or a kitchen timer?


6 posted on 03/20/2010 6:29:28 AM PDT by Clara Lou (I deem Barack Obama unfit to be an American, much less a POTUS.)
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To: Flavius

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


7 posted on 03/20/2010 6:30:20 AM PDT by McLynnan
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To: martin_fierro

HAD ENOUGH YET..everyone.


8 posted on 03/20/2010 6:30:52 AM PDT by Marty62 ( Marty60)
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To: Flavius
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

9 posted on 03/20/2010 6:30:58 AM PDT by La Lydia
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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!


10 posted on 03/20/2010 6:31:59 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (American exceptionalism - for liberals, it's like garlic to a vampire)
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To: ozark hilljilly
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
11 posted on 03/20/2010 6:33:02 AM PDT by Dem Guard
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To: Flavius

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.


12 posted on 03/20/2010 6:35:03 AM PDT by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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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


13 posted on 03/20/2010 6:35:56 AM PDT by kenth
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To: McLynnan

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.


14 posted on 03/20/2010 6:36:09 AM PDT by RC one (WHAT!!!!)
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To: Flavius
"The battery will last for four to six months with average use and cannot be reused"

Sounds wasteful.

15 posted on 03/20/2010 6:36:32 AM PDT by americanophile (DeMint/Ryan '10)
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Talking cars did really well back in the 80’s. /Nope
16 posted on 03/20/2010 6:37:06 AM PDT by MaxMax (Conservatism isn't a party)
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"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.

17 posted on 03/20/2010 6:38:22 AM PDT by FLAMING DEATH (Are you better off than you were $4 trillion ago?)
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I’m staying in the steamy water until I look like a Shar Pei.


18 posted on 03/20/2010 6:39:04 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: Flavius

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.


19 posted on 03/20/2010 6:39:08 AM PDT by kenth
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To: kenth
Quit complaining... It could contain a hologram of a nude Nancy Pelosi.
20 posted on 03/20/2010 6:39:24 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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