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?)

[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.”

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

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

[martin_fierro]

[BuffaloJack]

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.

[PoolQue]

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

[ASA Vet]

i’ll change from a 40 to a 50 gallon water heater

That was my solution to two teenage stepsons.

[Jack Hammer]

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

[Dem Guard]

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

[Dem Guard]

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.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Count down to the first slip and fall lawsuit.

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