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Wild faucets and showerhead are unlike any you've ever seen

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No, you're not hallucinating. These faucets are modeled after wine bottles, delivering your water from a familiar form factor that looks like Italian techno-plumbing purveyor iB Rubinetterie ran through the Disney cartoon factory.

The Batlo faucet by designer Giulio Iacchetti uses its bottle-shaped top as a joystick, while his accompanying Drop showerhead reminds us of a water balloon we encountered last summer. Call us crazy, but we like these a lot. But then, we likes us some weird faucets.







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I've also wondered, is there a simple device to maybe collect the water until it reaches the desired temp to avoid ...More »


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By Killa at 11:40 PM ON 12/29/08

What's with these "designers" changing useful things into useless crap in the name of "art"? It's very arty to jack up the price, eh?
It's probably just a concept anyway, as is most of the cool stuff on here...it's a bummer when you see a picture of something, read a description, and then find out it doesn't actualy exist. These particular things I don't care for either way...

By Billposter at 11:25 PM ON 01/08/09

Do some research before commenting... As a bathroom product designer myself I have to read so much thoughtless comment about my products. This design is apparently based on a bottle shape and has a nice joystick type control. The coloured version has a 'soft' feel, quite innovative. They do it in chrome if you don't like the colours. See, I did my research.

By CaseyLee at 9:32 AM ON 01/15/09

so what do these do

By I RonMan at 7:59 PM ON 03/06/09

I would love to see a couple other innovations in shower heads. How about one that you touch to turn off the flow after setting the temp, but is ready at a touch to resume? This would be helpful for shaving or soaping up the kids without wasting water. I personally have a turn-off valve, but if it were built into the shower head assembly, I think more people would use it, saving a lot of water and energy.

By I ronman at 8:06 PM ON 03/06/09

I've also wondered, is there a simple device to maybe collect the water until it reaches the desired temp to avoid scalding or freezing?
Another neat innovation would be to integrate the warm waste water in a shower with the cold intake so you recover some of the waste heat.
-How about making a small water filter/recycler that allows you to wash first, then flip on the recycler, which lets you luxuriate in a long shower using...the same water (post- dumping the soapy stuff, of course)??


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