With constant concerns about climate change, many people are looking for various ways to go green.
One big focus is water conservation. In recent times especially, with the ongoing drought in California, some people are searching for ways to save water.
Elisabeth Buecher, a textile-based installation designer and educator in London, invented a unique way to do so: Spiky.
This “sustainable and inflatable shower curtain” has a sensor that causes it to inflate after four minutes, forcing anyone to stop showering. While the invention was inspired by a medieval torture instrument seen in Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, it doesn’t physically hurt.
Spiky isn’t a commercial product as of now, but Buecher calls it an “educational art installation.”
“I wanted to create this project because I do believe that it is very hard to do things that feel uncomfortable even if it is for our own good (saving water) and we need a little help to force us to do it,” she told LittleThings in an email. “I see my curtains like alarm clocks: you don't want to get up in the morning but you have to and the alarm clock helps you to do it.”
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With ongoing fears about the environment, Elisabeth Buecher thought of a way to help save water: Spiky.
It allows people to shower for four minutes without a problem.
But after four minutes, a sensor goes off and inflates the curtain. The spikes, which don't hurt, are supposed to force a person to stop showering.
The London-based textile-based installation designer describes it as a “sustainable and inflatable shower curtain."
Please SHARE with all the environmentally conscious people you know!
