If there was one place you could escape from your hi-tech gizmos, it was the bathroom. Not any more. Now bathrooms too have several amazing gadgets, among them the hi-tech showers. A shower with an inbuilt mp3 player or radio is a boon for bathroom singers who won’t have to listen to their solitary voices echoing off your bathroom walls anymore. And, if you’re one of those who are forced to listen to a loved one missing notes as they sing at the top of their voice in the shower, this piece of gadgetry is a must-have in your bathroom.
Here are some of the innovatively designed showers that will not only get you spanking clean but will also have you dancing. Now, that’s what you could call adding zing to your bathroom experience.
1. Sing along as you shower
Aquavolo from Bossini is a sophisticated music system that comes complete with twin speakers and allows you to plug in your mp3 player or iPod to listen to your favorite tunes. This little piece of gadget wizardry is a boon for music lovers who need a melody in their heart at all times. This hi-tech shower head has two settings that lets you enjoy your shower while you relax and move to the tunes that are playing overhead. In the closed position, you can step under a waterfall-like shower that gently tumbles down over your body. With the show head in the open position, you can dance in a steady flow that feels like rain drops. A steady sprinkling of water droplets will wet and gently massage your body. Besides the music system, this shower head also incorporates multi-coloured LEDs for chromotherapy.
2. Digitally-controlled shower
This is a shower system from Hansgrohe. RainBrain is a state of the art shower and includes a touchscreen panel that puts all the controls at the finger tips of the user. So there will be no more awkward moments where you will have to fumble with the faucet knobs, just set the temperature of the water after you choose your favorite music with a few touches. The device controls the music player via Bluetooth. This ensures that you can connect the device that you use regularly and you don’t have to get it wet either. What’s more, the device allows four different preset functions for four different people.
3. All-in-one shower
This hi-tech shower – Frame, a line of hi-tech showers by Jacuzzi, will make your shower time the highlight of your day as it combines the goodness of everything that can possibly add to your bathroom experience – music therapy, chromotherapy, aquatherapy and aromatherapy. Its touch screen panel gives it a sophisticated feel. First select your favorite music, then you can choose between a steam bath, hydromassage and water cascade to energize you, and raindrop and multi-coloured light effects to give you the goodness of chromotherapy. And to take the experience to the next level, a few clicks will let you experience aromatherapy for a rejuvenated feeling.
4. Dance in the rain
This is a very practical shower head designed by Hae Lim. The device comes in two parts – the wall-mounted speaker and the shower head. The shower head comes integrated with the mp3 player and has the control buttons conveniently situated below the water jet, allowing you to select the song you want to listen to. The speaker also serves as a shower mount.
5. Shower of colors
These hi-tech shower heads have LEDs that are temperature sensitive. When water flows through the shower, the LEDs indicate the temperature of the water by lighting up in an appropriate color. If the temperature is below 90°F, the LEDs will glow green, 91 to 105°F it glows blue and above 105°F it’s an alarming red.
With a hi-tech shower head installed in your bathroom, every time you step under your hi-tech shower, you’re doing yourself a world of good, besides the wonderful scrub you give yourself. So, now you have more many reasons to hop into the shower, and hopefully get your loved one to join you.
