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Take shorter showers or suffocate

How would you like an eco-friendly shower curtain that starts suffocating you if you take too long?
Tue, Apr 21 2009 at 4:31 PM EST
Read more: GREEN DESIGN, WATER CONSERVATION

So you want to save water by taking shorter showers — but find your resolve wash away once you start running the water? (”I get such great ideas in there!”) Designer Elisabeth Buecher’s boa constrictor-esque shower curtain could help. (via groovy green)
 
 
Basically, the shower curtain slowly inflates around you while the shower’s running, in the end trapping and immobilizing the showerer. The idea, I’m guessing, is not so much to kill the un-eco showerer as to speed up said showerer, encouraging them to soap up and rinse off quickly before life is squeezed out of them.
 
Elisabeth's second idea for a shower curtain slowly grows spikes as you shower — spikes that eventually push you out of the shower water’s reach.
 
Why such sadistic green gadgets? Elisabeth counters that getting frightened awake by alarm clocks too can be painful — but those clocks are also useful. “I call it ‘design of threat and punishment’ and I use it as an educational tool,” she writes.
 
Cute idea — Though I do see a serious problem with the design. The goal of these curtains is to ecofy the world — but from what I can tell, these curtains would have to be made with vinyl / PVC — not an eco-product. Until we invent a super flexible material that’s vinyl-like but environmentally sensitive, you’ll have to stick to the shower timer.
 
Image: Courtesy Elisabeth Buecher
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Posted By GG - Fri, Apr 24 2009 at 5:36 PM EST

Killer Clocks

"Why such sadistic green gadgets? Elisabeth counters that getting frightened awake by alarm clocks too can be painful — but those clocks are also useful. “I call it ‘design of threat and punishment’ and I use it as an educational tool,” she writes."

Uh yeah, but my alarm clock is not going choke me to death if I ignore it or tell it to STFU. Great analogy...

Posted By bobby - Fri, Apr 24 2009 at 5:25 PM EST

idiotic

way too much time on her hands.....

Posted By Brad - Fri, Apr 24 2009 at 12:29 PM EST

Idiots

So assuming you stay in the shower too long and become immobilized, how do you turn off the water then? It would just run forever and ever and ever...f***ing f***tards.

Posted By Talker - Fri, Apr 24 2009 at 11:33 AM EST

The Picture

Oh....So that's where babies come from.

Posted By Anonymous - Fri, Apr 24 2009 at 11:23 AM EST

and the water saved is used for?

All of the water saved by getting out quickly would have to be used to rinse the curtain clean when youre done. Look at the soap all over it in the picture.

Posted By Anonymous - Fri, Apr 24 2009 at 10:41 AM EST

ecoshower curtain

I think the ecoshower curtain is a GREAT idea!!! Any idiot who uses it SHOULD be suffocated!!

Posted By Thomas-in-Newport - Sat, Apr 25 2009 at 5:34 PM EST

Darwinism ...

We call that Darwinism around here. The defective genetic material does not get passed on to the next generation.

Posted By Anonymous - Fri, Apr 24 2009 at 9:30 AM EST

Irony?

Let's see ....... it's a good thing to be suffocated if your shower lasts too long but maybe not so good to waterboard a terrorist that is plotting death to many - another good idea from the libs ......

Posted By Siel Ju - Wed, Apr 22 2009 at 2:10 PM EST

why is the headline field required?

Strange -- It looks like the page I linked to is either malfunctioning or has been taken down. (the link itself is correct) Hopefully it'll go back up soon -- Thanks for the heads up nonetheless :)

Posted By Ashley Chase - Wed, Apr 22 2009 at 2:04 PM EST

Links

Siel, the first link doesn't work. Just thought I'd mention!

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