In the near future just about everything will be connected to the Internet, as you’re most likely aware, but did you know that this even includes your shower accoutrements? Everything from your shampoo to the loofah will communicate with your e-shower head, that is if sustainable wellness company, Hamwells, has anything to say about it.
Launched on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London earlier this month, the e-shower is basically a standing shower that can massage you while saving water by recirculating it, and dousing you in a misty spray of filtered moisture. Even better news: the enclosure fits on most current shower setups.
Hamwells e-Shower claims to save up to 90% of the water that would otherwise be wasted. Image source: TechCrunch.
Because of the system’s mixing filter, the water you’ve used to clean yourself is sucked back into the shower and is filtered, mixed with water from the mains, and then shot through with UV light. This is what allows you to save up to 90% of the water that would be wasted down the drain.
“A traditional 10-minute shower requires 100 liters of warm, clean water,” said CEO Rob Chömpff, who was head of marketing at VNU Exhibitions. “This precious resource is used only once before it flushes down the drain. This collective habit is unsustainable, because worldwide droughts and shortages are on the rise.”
According to Chömpff, the infrastructures of houses and hotels are sized upon the demands of the traditional shower. “Requiring 10 liters of warm water a minute for a sustained period, the traditional shower demands huge investments in solar panels, electric boilers, and the like. It was the linchpin blocking the sustainable energy neutral buildings of the future,” he said.
Hamwells has raised nearly a million euros in funding for the e-shower. The company has signed letters of intent from major hotel chains and the showers are already being built.
If you’re fortunate enough to hop into one of these showers and are curious to see how much you’re saving, connecting the shower to your phone is effortless. And while Hamwells has not yet solved the e-shampoo/e-conditioner problem, it’s in the plans to soon be connected to your bathroom activity.
Source: TechCrunch
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