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.