Germany’s Hansa has come out with these futuristic bathroom fixtures. The metal spigot has the top portion removed, creating a visible canyon for your water to run through. As if these rectangular minimalist fixtures weren’t beautiful enough, they also feature temperature sensitive LEDs lining the walls of the canyon, which illuminate the water in different colors depending on the temperature of the water (red=hot, pink=warm, blue=cold). Not that anyone really needs colored light help to discern the temperature of running water – but its a cool feature none-the-less. Who knows, maybe it could help prevent those nasty surprises you sometimes get when washing your hands or stepping into the bath a little too quickly.
For more information on Hansacanyon see Hansa’s website
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wow, this is pretty sweet
=)
beautiful
This is great…..where do I buy it?
wow!
Shinny! I love!
This is one of the (if not THE) coolest additions to faucet capabilities that I have ever seen. I can see this as a means of preventing kids (or parents for that matter) from getting their hands/feet/whatever scalded by water that is too hot and it saves us all from standing there with our fingers getting frozen while we wait for the water to warm up enough to was our faces.
Now, all we need is a sink and a bath tub with the same capabilities! (Or, maybe, a sensitivity adjustment so we can set the faucet to our desired preference of water temp and, when that is reached, the water goes green or purple.)
Wow, beautiful and functional. Very nice!
GET IT HUMZA
Absolutely gorgeous – I’d probably waste so much water if I had these because I’d simply want to watch it pour forth all day long!
strait ill yo, this looks bomb.
very cool – sure beats the shit out of the crap ass fixtures i have at my place
the roppongi hills grand hyatt hotel has these installed in their lobby bathrooms. 110% pure class.
sweet but COPIED.
the idea is stolen from last year besignerboom ‘inside the bathroom’
designers name is toshihiro aya from japan.
competition hosted and promoted by http://www.designboom.com
here is the direct link to the competition result designer’s page
http://www.designboom.com/wc/faucets/99.html
Stealing an idea is very easy. Make it better it’s even easier when you have a base you must be dumb to make it worst…
anyway congratulation to the copycat company that took it. continue that way, may be next you wanna re invent milk and coffe and call it cappuccino
sure it’s a hit
Its hard to say for certain about this, but I doubt that Hansa stole this idea from Toshiro Aya, simply because Design Boom’s competition results were announced in March 2004, and Hansa has been selling these for a couple months at least (their website is so difficult to navigate – its hard to figure out exactly when this product launched). I assume that means that the Canyon line of faucets have probably been in development and production for at least 4-6 months. However, even if they got the initial idea from Toshiro Aya, the execution is so entirely different from his, that I don’t think it would really qualify as “stealing” the design. Perhaps “taking inspiration from” might be a better way to describe it.
I checked out the Design Boom sight, and sure, it uses lights instead of labels for water temperature, but the DESIGN is remarkably different, that you might as well criticise this designer for also using water.
Great concept, but what do you do if your husband is color blind?
sweeeeeeeeeeeet.
They should have a fountain made in likeness. The changing colours can be really therapeutic. Works well with the bathtub definitely, i can never gauge the right temperature to get in.
you’ve been FARKED
The illuminated water is cute, but as the design lacks an aerator it limits the usefulness of the faucet to filling buckets (and related ‘filling’ tasks). Too many designers, not enough engineers…
I would guess that this faucet sells for comfortably well into the four figures.
Looks good but:-
Is limescale a problem?
With taps running at at decent volume does water miss sink?
they had these at this club in baltimore called the Red Maple; They look amazing. I would definatley consider getting one if i didnt have an appartment and therefore unable to make even the slightest changes wihtout loosing my safety deposit.
My question is, won’t the water get contaminated by dust and other things that accumulate on the trough that is exposed when the faucet is not running? I dunno if I’d want to drink out of that…
Fr?nt
Pon pon pon pon.
I love Ida
What will they think of next? Thanks for the info. Linked on my blog. http://www.virtualmatter.blogspot.com
And how do you turn the dang thing off? I wanna see how the faucets look and work, not just the spigot.
Whoe nilly, that sumbich resembles the ancient aquaduct of rome. cool.
what happens if you turn it on full force. will the water shoot over the sink and onto the floor?
Very, very, nice!!!!!
This is very cool! The future may have arrived!:-D
this looks really cool and is an excellent idea!
Where to get it?
put a grate on the end and use it as a shower
wow….you people are sad….lets comment on taps!!! ha
It’s prettyful!!!and shiny i wanna touch it!
I want 1!!!!!
It’s pretty sad that people are improving such menial objects such as this. Hurry up and start improving electrical cars, you capitalist pigs.
soo u cant control the tempature of the water???
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Wery nice! I Love design in my home! Where do I find these?
hey that’s cool! i want one!:-D
DUDE! SWEETNESSNESS!
Absolutely stupid.
That invention is the neatest i have seen so far where can i buy one at. Just the other day my aunt was bragging about her water faucets being sterling silver but wait until she gets a load of this. Its awesome. Why didn’t i think of that.
(pig) (cow) (monkey) HOOOORAY FOR COLORS (santa) (joker) (devil)
FaNtaStIquE! but how do you turn on the tap?
This is really beautiful!!! What’s the price??? Where can I get this????
The faucets come with buttons to turn the water off and on. I didn’t show these because I didn’t think they were as interesting as the faucets themeselves, but if you want to see more details of how these faucets work, go to the Hansa website. There are plenty of pictures of the on/off switches and other faucet details.
this is pretty cool and a great idea
I’m dying to get one! Where I can I purchse it? It’s the coolest faucet I’ve ever seen!
please tell me where to find these faucets…we are building a house and are wondering if this line is available yet?
Thankyou!
COOOOOOOOOLLLL!!!!!!!
hello. i am conner……butterflies
like many others had asked, where can I get one of these? does it satisfy the codes here in the US? or do I need to find someone in Europe to get one for me?
Thanks in advance….
Price in norway about 3000 eur…Fu%&#” H?%”?%
BTW,this is a german product that keeps the best standards in Europe,,, there are no reasom that this will not be “allowed” in US or other places. Just saw the thingy in my shop today, my reseller gave ( i bought one ) will be displayed in norway…
Amazing.. I’m interested to see whats next for Hansa.
what if we shoot it with a gun
….nice…but,is that water?
Awesome! I want one! Now a clear shower head, that would be cool.
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how do i purchase and get pricing for this. Does this work in the United States?
thank you
You may purchase this faucet from KWC faucets located in Atlanta
site:
http://www.hansaamerica.net/?rtll=1
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Cool! But very pricey