14 DAY TRIAL // You might not know this yet, but cutting your shower short is not just about making sure you don't have a heart attack when you get your monthly water bill. As greenheads keep telling us, it's also about not wasting our planet's resources.
Thanks to a newly developed gizmo dubbed ShowerSaver, figuring out when it's about time to get out of the shower is bound to become a piece of cake kind of endeavor for most of us.
Tree Hugger says that, once installed in the shower cabin, the device turns itself on whenever somebody decides to take a bath.
It can be calibrated for the flow rate of various showerheads, and its job is to keep track of how much water goes down the drain.
“It works by using a special infra-red sensor that knows to start as soon as it picks up your body heat,” the people who developed it explain.
“As your shower progresses, a virtual water level rises in the center of the display, making it easy to track your progress. In addition, the green, yellow, and red graphics act just like a stop-light, letting you know if you've been in there a little too long,” they detail.
I don't know about you, but I would do my best not to end up in the red zone.
An ongoing fundraising campaign on Kickstarter is trying to raise enough money for large-scale manufacturing of the ShowerSaver to begin, and I for one am seriously considering chipping in.