Fine. Take that glass shower door squeegee and get after it.
A scaled up Dyson hand dryer with giant speakers that play Ride of the Valkyries, and ankle straps so that you can hang upside down and do abdominal exercises while drying.
Wash with dry water? I often see sparrows bathing in sand. Use a granulated polymer instead, something dirt sticks to and that can be removed electrostatically.
I get it now. A paradigm shift would be a shower that doesn’t use water in the first place. Perhaps a sand blaster?
Ninja’d!
Ultrasonic dryers exist for your clothes. I don’t know what one would do to the human body…
I mean something toteable – light and compact enough to be carried long distances. Maybe with a shoulder strap, like a duffel bag. Would be useful for hiking, day trips, etc.
Wow, I’m really out of touch! Didn’t know this existed (and I even Googled for it). Thanks for pointing it out.
I’m skeptical that there would be demand for this, even if the technology existed to make the refrigeration mechanism and power supply light enough. Because it’s principally drinks that people want to be cold, and drinks themselves are heavy. We generally carry only as much liquid as we really need to carry when hiking or walking longer distances, and I don’t think the added attraction of it being cold would change that.
I could see a market for an actively cooled cooler-box if it could be made light enough, something jntended to be carried only for a short distance, from a car to a fishing spot or picnic spot.
Does not include a battery.
How about a human-sized tumble dryer?
Some devices have this. A Roku Ultra streaming player can do it, for one. As to why all devices don’t have a “find my remote” option, my guess would be cost savings by the manufacturer. I would guess that’s the reason for lots of inventions never being created or making it to market.
As for remotes, an improvement would be to have the backside be more visible. When it is dull, black plastic, they are hard to see if they are tucked away. If instead it was a bright color and/or had reflective material, you could spot it a lot easier.
Emergency mode on cell phones that allows them to network with each other when cell towers are lost. Great in for calling 911 during a power outage - if you’re far from the nearest working tower, your call is passed from phone to phone in your area until you get to a phone near a working tower.
This kind of networking via nearby devices, rather than via dedicated nodes like cellphone towers and WiFi points, is the way of the future. Phones can already communicate directly with one another to some extent if you allow it, that’s one way that contact tracing is implemented. Check out Amazon Sidewalk as a new example. We’ll have some privacy concerns to get comfortable with - but then, nobody believes me when I tell them our “cellphones” will be integrated into our bodies before too long.
A device on a hose involving a water spray array combined with a vacuum unit. You thoroughly apply the necessary pre-lathered soap to your skin and then use this device to rinse it off, taking the water with it. You would not even need a shower, because this device would collect all the shower water, with negligible overspray. An IR lamp would be included in it, to keep your skin from getting cold during the rinse.
The Roku Ultra can do this because it has an intelligent RF remote, and there is a 2-way communication channel between the remote and the set-top box. An ordinary IR remote is basically a flashlight, and it would take substantial additional electronics to allow the STB to send a signal to the remote. So yes, it’s a cost issue.
Glad to hear it. I’d be happy if it was allowed as purely an emergency mode.
The technology isn’t there yet with phone-to-phone, though. Bluetooth is short range, perfect for contact tracing, but no more than shouting distance, so I don’t think the range is yet very useful for emergency purposes.
So basically a mesh network of phones? Great idea, but you’ll still need access fairly commonly to cell towers or fixed wi-fi nodes, or you’ll end up with the unlucky guy who IS connected to one getting hammered trying to pass all the traffic for everyone else.
Get one of these installed in your bathroom.
Really, as long as you are going to that, you may be able to make it have a shower mode as well, so that you get in, turn on the air, lift off, then turn on the water, where you can spin around and get any angle, then turn the water off, and be dry in seconds.
Slightly less drastic, you could use a high velocity dryer with a small amount of water injected for the shower mode. Even combine it with a hydrosurge to mix in your favorite soaps, shampoos or conditioners. Seems it would be able to wash and dry you nearly instantly.
One thing I am quite surprised about is that there are no venturi style soap and shampoo mixers for home showers out there. That alone would make showering much more efficient and thorough.
I really think that the power source would be the biggest hangup here. Batteries are not very energy dense.
Okay, how about having a hot air blower integrated into the pipework of your shower? So that when you turn the shower water off, the shower head blows hot air. It wouldn’t do your whole body, but it would make a neat hair dryer. It would work better for the large “rain” shower heads.
Pointless integration because we can. To intimidate potential alien invaders with our advanced technological prowess.