The day was stressful. The endless meetings with the company-owned Internet-Unit you have really taken with you. Your car has, after all, an air conditioning and automatic transmission.
Stealth mission met
Nevertheless, there is no relaxation: the traffic companies strike and the main traffic line is calculated on this hailed day a new road blanket. In the tough stop-and-go mode, you are longing for your home.
Bodyspray and rain showers
You would prefer to escape into the tropics and bathe in the warming red of the evening sun under a waterfall or walk naked through the lukewarm rain. And best to enjoy the songs from your favorite playlist. But no chance: the next day everything starts again - because you have already spent your holiday contingent.
Water Music
But modern technology can solve this problem. For this, the tap manufacturer GRAFF from Milwaukee, Wisconsin had to overcome one of the very last barriers to home networking: the Americans, whose designers are already oriented on US camouflage cap bombs in the design of water faucets and shower heads - As you think -, just mixed battery and shower with iPod and touchscreen.
The revolution begins 2012
And finished was the tropical paradise in the own bathroom. The shower can be turned into a waterfall or mimic a rainy rain.
These water games of a special kind can illuminate the user according to his own ideas. The programmable RGB color system allows for the adjustment of certain colors as well as automatic color changes. On the rear wall, swiveling nozzles are located, which can be switched on for the perhaps most spectacular showering experience of all times.
That's not all: Because many of the generation iPods want the right music for such a "shower fairy tale," the AQUASENSE baptized shower network has a USB port that allows music to be transferred to the built-in flash memory . Even videos run on the revolutionary system.
The heart of the whole spell is a waterproof color touchscreen, which is somewhere between iPod and iPad and is protected so well that it is possible to install it directly under the shower. A piece of high-tech replaces the conventional mixer battery.
At the Cersaie sanitation fair in Bologna, GRAFF presented its development to the public. The response was great. Emanuela Tavolini, sales manager of GRAFF's headquarters in the Modest City of Florence, will be pleased to announce the coming sales start of next year. The Italian branch was responsible for the development, which Ms Tavolini gave just over a year.
Logically, the plumbing experts got help from electronics experts, because the mechanical side caused the slightest complications. Outside, you can only guess what kind of pull-ups were needed to replace the good old mixer battery with a touchscreen that is waterproof and easy to handle with wet hands.
Here everything goes together: music, video, special effects with water and light, temperature and color control. The volume control has been designed as a square knob, so that it can be reached with closed eyes at all times. But who wants to close their eyes in this wellness wonder of the 21st century?
What Philips brought with Ambilight to the illumination of the TV peripherals, GRAFF has packed into the shower head, which - fixed in the ceiling - can simulate rain showers and waterfalls. The control is intuitively designed with unique icons, the control of the technical bathtub is no hex.
The colors can be mixed with virtual sliders. If you set your favorite color, the LEDs can light up in the same tone all the time. If you like change, switch to automatic: Then the light gently passes through the whole RGB spectrum and conveys a meditative feeling.
All the best comes from Above
The touch screen also controls the water currents as self-explaining. These come from the already mentioned rectangular grill in the ceiling, from handbrause, side bodysprayers and a swivel footbrause. The temperature is permanently readable via a digital display.
The networking of light and water control with a touch screen would be an achievement. Previous experience showers from GROHE still had to cope with pushbuttons and thus can not rise the coolness factor of iPhone and Co.
Mirror TV in the bathroom
But GRAFF goes even further: Via a USB input the user can load his music from USB sticks, iPods or hard disks into the system. Depending on your requirements, you can store between one and eight gigabytes of memory, even to play videos via the system's touch screen. The capacity of the connected USB media is limited to 32 gigabytes. An analog AUX input is also available.
At the moment, AQUASENSE is still self-sufficient. A DLNA-certified interface for networking with the rest of the household electronics network is not an issue, Emanuela Tavolini said, since the associated costs are unrelated.
However, she admits: "In the future, there might be a version using the Android operating system, so in such a version, it will be possible to get a networking of the home multimedia system via Bluetooth or WLAN So are all those who run on the Android operating system. " Of course there is freedom in the boxes.
Emanuela Tavolini explains in fluent German: "If individual boxes of a home stereosystem are connected, they can be connected to the shower system instead of the boxes that are included with AQUASENSE. At the moment, no further integration into the home automation system is possible . "
The hi-fi view does not have much to say about the built-in loudspeakers of the system. But it turns out that this is a pragmatic solution, which is closely related to the wet-scientific multimedia system.
The active boxes work with 12 V low current to keep 240 V away from the wet cell and simplify the installation. Each of the bass-balanced broadband systems sits in a plastic box that protects it from splashing water. The chrome-plated ABS plastic of the cover has an antibacterial effect and does not rust.
The revolution will begin in early 2012. Prices have not yet been fixed and are set at the start of the multi-page system.
This is a good thing for plumbing installers: they are allowed to learn and to deal with computer technology like many other sectors in front of them. The user is waiting for a beautiful new world whose bathing experiences could have sprung from the tales of a thousand and one nights.
For him, besides the refinement of the wet pleasure is a very important factor: Thanks to the very simple installation, according to the manufacturer, the system can be integrated both in new buildings and in existing bathrooms.
The units can be installed in any shower that meets the required minimum dimensions, promises Emanuela Tavolini. We could not try the system yet, but if it's only half as cool as expected, it might turn Warmduscher into water rills.
GRAFF consequently designed the AQUASENSE as a closed system and also offered its own loudspeakers that were specifically optimized for the "material-borne" application directly in the shower. They work with their own low-voltage amplifiers, which consume 12 instead of 240 volts, and are anti-bacterial.
Anyone who wants to exhale the possibilities of his intelligent bathroom to the last, can also cross the system with conventional installers.
A huge market is currently developing in the construction segment. Almost all well-known manufacturers of B & W over Canton to Focal mix with. Although most of these systems are not declared to be moisture resistant. But if the owner keeps the distance to the wet area of the bathroom, everything should work.
Canton chief developer Frank Göbl sees no problems with long-term use, if the InCeiling loudspeakers do not come in touch with splashing water. Users also have radio portables in the bathroom.
Anyone who exposes a TV of moisture in the bathroom should consider a lot. In contrast to ceiling speakers, the TV must be installed directly in the bathtub in order to be in the view.
Since he occasionally receives splashing water, he must be adequately protected. This is why there are now a number of special TV monitors for the sanitary area. As a rule, they differ from their usual LCD colleagues also through a semi-transparent mirror in front of the pendulum.
This allows series fans and news-lovers to switch between their own mirror image and a program of their choice. For those who want to shave during the television program, there are also compromise solutions from mirrors where only a small area is used as a monitor.
On the Internet, there is now a huge supply of shopping platforms, which are dedicated to this topic. These include, for example,
Www.splashvision.de, www.bathroomtv.de, www.bad-tv.com
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