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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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lame; pebble; planet; prison; shower; water; waterpebble
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To: Flavius

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


41 posted on 03/20/2010 7:27:20 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: Flavius

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


42 posted on 03/20/2010 7:30:45 AM PDT by pappyone (New to Freep, still working a tag line.)
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To: Flavius
I spent my money on a Jungle Bucket.

See tagline.

43 posted on 03/20/2010 7:31:45 AM PDT by houeto (http://www.junglebucket.com/Jungle-Bucket-1.htm)
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To: martin_fierro

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?


44 posted on 03/20/2010 7:33:18 AM PDT by jmcenanly
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To: La Lydia

Liberalism is the new Puritanism ...

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


45 posted on 03/20/2010 7:39:03 AM PDT by fnord (497 and a half feet of rope? ... I just carry it.)
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To: Flavius

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


46 posted on 03/20/2010 7:49:32 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Flavius

Black means it is guts were crushed


47 posted on 03/20/2010 7:53:30 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Tax the poor. Taxes will give them a stake in society)
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To: Flavius
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.

48 posted on 03/20/2010 8:02:03 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Obama: Chauncey Gardiner without the homburg)
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To: ozark hilljilly

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


49 posted on 03/20/2010 8:04:17 AM PDT by FourPeas (servantscenter.org -- Jesus' hands and feet on the streets serving those in need)
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To: Flavius

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


50 posted on 03/20/2010 8:07:03 AM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Light up the Planet! Use lots of power during "Earth Hour;" Sat. March 27, 8:30 PM.)
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To: Flavius

Nothing like an hour in the shower or until my singing voice runs out.


51 posted on 03/20/2010 8:09:27 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (IN A SMALL TENT WE JUST STAND CLOSER! * IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: jmcenanly

52 posted on 03/20/2010 8:17:08 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Flavius

There are those days when I’m not that dirty and a 5 minute shower will do nicely, and there are those days when I’ve been working in the garden, turning over topsoil and composted manure or working on the car.
On those days it takes 4 times as long to scrub off the work environment.
The waterpebble is utterly stupid.


53 posted on 03/20/2010 8:17:11 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (If you're not patriotic, you're nothing !)
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To: Dr.Zoidberg

None of you commenters seems to be the parent of multiple teenagers trying to get everybody ready for church on a Sunday morning...


54 posted on 03/20/2010 8:22:06 AM PDT by PoolQue ("The best government is that which governs least.")
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To: dalereed
i’ll change from a 40 to a 50 gallon water heater

That was my solution to two teenage stepsons.

55 posted on 03/20/2010 8:23:20 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Iran should have ceased to exist Nov 5, 1979, but we had no president then either.)
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To: Flavius

Is it just me, or is the whole world going inexorably nuts...?


56 posted on 03/20/2010 9:20:19 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: MNDude

It works really well too. About once a year she just needs
a little reminder....hehehe :-)


57 posted on 03/20/2010 11:15:18 AM PDT by Dem Guard
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To: Right Wing Assault

Well if we just ran hot water for a very long time it might have to catch up, but for all practical purposes we have never ran out of hot water.


58 posted on 03/20/2010 11:17:55 AM PDT by Dem Guard
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To: Flavius
Count down to the first slip and fall lawsuit.

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59 posted on 03/20/2010 11:21:12 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I miss the competent fiscal policy and flag waving patriotism of the Carter Administration)
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