When all’s said and done, the bathroom isn’t the most exciting room of the house to be in. Once you’ve performed your daily ablutions there’s little reason to make return visits – or is there?
This is the 21st century, the age of technology, gadgets and gizmos, after all. Nothing and nobody is safe from a techy makeover, and that includes the bathroom.
So while you’ve got the latest apps on your phone and the largest plasma TV screen mounted on your living room wall, now you can marvel and delight in the cornucopia of practical gadgets, and items those boffins have wracked their brains to come up with to make your visit to the bathroom a more up-to-date and fun one.
Here are six innovative extras that would sit quite nicely alongside your bath mats and wall lighting…
TV Mirror
From Eastenders to X Factor there’s no denying we’re a nation of tele addicts, so for those who find it difficult to drag themselves away from the gogglebox, the Eclipse TV Monitor could be answer to all your terrestrial dreams.
It embeds an LCD TV behind a two-way bathroom mirror so you can relax in the tub with your favourite show. When the TV is off you can’t see it at all, leaving you go about your merry way shaving or brushing your teeth without the mortifying early morning horror of Daybreak’s Aled Jones gurning at you.
Techie Taps
Turning the tap on isn’t the most arduous of tasks, but for the more indolent bathroom users there’s the ‘intelligent tap’, which uses facial recognition to adjust the flow and heat of the water as necessary. It also has a touchscreen so you can access your emails.
Top Teeth
When it comes to your daily bathroom ablutions, oral hygiene is top of the list, so next time you want to add some sparkle and shine to those molars you might want to reach for the Oral B Professional Care Smart Series 5000. It has a smart guide that contains an itinerary for brushing times and pressure, as well as a few gnasher-based top tips.
Apps The Way To Do It
For those techies who truly are inseparable from their iPod and the glories of its multifaceted applications, how about the Stocco Matre touchscreen mirror? It has a specially designed, integrated touch panel that lets you access your music and any other features you want.
Handily for a bathroom accessory, it also has a built-in barometer, lighting controls, and, if things are getting a little too steamy in there, a mirror de-fogger.
Down The Pan
Whether it’s a number one or number two, some of us are still embarrassed by Mother Nature’s inevitable sounds from a bladder release or bowel transit. Step forward the iPhone Eco-Oto app which plays the inimitable gurgles of a flushing toilet from 30 to 120 seconds!
Head Lights
Create your own multi-coloured illuminations with a shower head fitted with colour-changing LED lights that tell you the water temperature – green for cold, blue for warm, and red for hot. And once the water’s to a temperature of your liking you can adjust the colour to suit your mood (if there’s such a thing as a green, blue or red mood, that is). An ingenious use of bathroom lighting if ever there was one.
I’m sure if you had any of these accessories in your bathroom you’d have to be dragged kicking and screaming from your early morning preparations!
Have you got any ingenious techie gadgets in your bathroom?
Estelle Page is an interior designer who is always looking for ways to combine inventiveness and practicality!
