Who said electricity and water don't mix? Non-dead people, that's who. But what do those stick-in-the-mud, living people know about modern convenience, huh? Not much, if the Sunrise Faucet is anything to go by.

The faucet, which recklessly brings deadly current and promiscuously conductive water into dangerous proximity, is fully sealed and controlled by mutli-touch, the modern-day equivalent of putting the letter "i" in front of your product-name. Tap the rather oddly-labeled "standby" button to start and stop the water, and tap the other four switches to adjust flow and temperature.

The controls actually seem a little odd: why not swipe to make things happen?

Aside from the obvious Darwinian dangers of electrocution, I remain suspicious of fancified faucets in general. The simple twist-top design is a marvel of simplicity, and the mixer-tap, with one lever controlling flow and temperature, is a modern wonder. Automatic taps that use light-beams and other gimmicks, on the other hand, almost always fail to work, or at the very least frustrate with dribbles that would make a prostatic hyperplasia sufferer feel positively lavish in their outpourings.

While the Sunrise Faucet is a concept, and likely to remain so, it can't be long before something similar appears in the restroom of a posh hotel bar near you. Not that I care. I never wash my hands in public anyway. Who knows who's been there before you?

Touchscreen Interface Water [Yanko]

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