Poor Man's Hot Water Heater.

1. SYSCrusher
   January 25th, 2006 at 11:09 am

   If the water is already hot, why heat it??

   (Sorry, couldn't resist)

2. stupid
   January 26th, 2006 at 6:41 am

   He don't have a water heater. He uses a water boiler to get hot water in the sink. Stupid.

3. STupid STupid
   January 26th, 2006 at 10:19 am

   Then why don't they call it a COLD water heater!!?

   /hee haw

4. Patryk Sielski
   January 26th, 2006 at 3:49 pm

   Hello.
   It's amazing how my picture travelled around the world.
   http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~psielski/usp/pow-en.html

5. Stupido
   January 28th, 2006 at 9:10 am

   I wouldn't say poor mans water heater. That's quite expensive to use electricity to heat water ...

6. Badjuk
   July 9th, 2006 at 6:44 am

   Nieźle, ale taki czajniczek pobiera bardzo duzo energii.

7. Ngu
   May 30th, 2007 at 10:09 pm

   Nghèo sinh ra tật, không có tiền lại còn hoang, hic, phá cái ấm đun nước ra để nghịch, chuối vật.
   Sang Tàu mua cái đun nước bằng nắng về mà dùng cho đỡ tốn điện nhé ku. Cái ấm đun nước để đấy đun nước pha chè mà uống. he he

8. machekku
   June 6th, 2007 at 4:54 pm

   It's probably worth mentioning that monthly fee in this students dorm is constant, no matter how much electricity is used.

9. freeenterprisechic
   May 2nd, 2009 at 7:01 pm

   With limited resources and funds, it's a good concept. Makes me appreciate my hot water heater heater.
   Cheryl Mikela

10. ml
    June 30th, 2009 at 6:58 am

    you don't have hot water from a central installation..what can you do..oh right, use an electrical heater! like everyone else...okay, you save yourself the pouring out, but you exchange that for the thing dropping off your basin sooner or later, hopefully just making a mess, not burning you.

11. Larry
    June 30th, 2009 at 6:09 pm

    Doesn't the electric pot make the water too hot for hand washing?

12. sola
    June 30th, 2009 at 10:26 pm

    It doesn't look like the outlet pipe has a valve, so i doubt the water has time to stay in the kettle long enough to get hot enough to be uncomfortable.

13. Anom
    July 1st, 2009 at 5:04 am

    FAKE!!!!

    This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

    This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was heating water as he was sailing his pirate ship, and he ran into Baja as she was surfing . Max said - Hay you made me spill my load, and Baja said - You spilt it on me. This is what caused global warming.

14. gizmo
    July 1st, 2009 at 8:10 am

    Hey Patryk, could you give more photos from your academic hostel?

15. nick
    July 1st, 2009 at 10:11 pm

    "FAKE!!!!

    This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow’s are all wrong."

    What shadows? There are none, save some borders. Flash photography. Cheers, patryk. That is making the best of it..

16. rjdyr
    July 2nd, 2009 at 12:00 am

    rysjy

17. Feisty
    July 2nd, 2009 at 8:46 am

    Shadows depend on light sources and camera angles. Just because you don't see any shadows does not necessarily mean it's a fake.

18. AaronJer
    July 2nd, 2009 at 10:24 am

    Lordy, you didn't get that he was kidding? That's amazing!

19. johnsherpa
    July 2nd, 2009 at 11:10 pm

    Duct tape? Where's the gobs of duct tapeholding the kettle on to the sink? Do that and it will pass a home inspection.

20. thebat
    July 3rd, 2009 at 4:17 am

    and how you get cold water now ?

21. ThingsFallApart
    July 3rd, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    Is nowhere Daisy-free anymore?

22. Shez
    July 5th, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    "and how you get cold water now ?"

    erm... by not switching the kettle on

23. Scurvy
    July 8th, 2009 at 3:54 am

    The best thing about this is that the creator is at the Warsaw Uni of TECHNOLOGY!

    What is technology for? For whatever you can make it do, of course!

24. Tony
    July 8th, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    It's kind of amazing how few people got the "hot water heater" joke.

25. Scott Blogs
    July 8th, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    Its not fake... why would you suggest its fake? Think about how easy this would be to make - probably easier to make it than to fake it.

26. Kudos
    July 9th, 2009 at 6:32 am

    I think it would take less time to actually make it than it would be to Photoshop it. Human ingenuity has no limits.

27. bianca
    July 9th, 2009 at 3:19 pm

    For those who asked about the water being too hot, in Europe many sinks have a cold and a hot spigot on each side of the sink, (unlike in the US where you choose the degree of heat coming from a single spigot). You fill the sink with water from both pipes to create lukewarm water then use it from the basin. So, I would imagine he fills his basin with hot, then adds cold and uses it that way.

    Good for him!

28. lestetitases
    July 11th, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    *bianca
    ...or just turn both spigots to make warm water flow (instead of hot or cold)

29. What
    July 13th, 2009 at 9:24 pm

    Uh, in the US, a great number of sinks and baths use 2 separate spigots... and I've never heard of anyone filling the basin to vary the temperature, like lestetitases said, use both spigots to obtain the desired output temperature.

30. Patryk Sielski
    July 14th, 2009 at 1:26 am

    gizmo: Apparently I can not pass URL here
    but maybe a administrator will pass my prevoius comment with an address.

    Or, maybe you can click on my name (I passed a website address in a form)

31. Patryk Sielski
    July 14th, 2009 at 1:28 am

    Yes, you can!
    So: A long time ago I made a few photos of my academic hostel and a small script to nagivate between them.

    On most photos there are imagemaps, so observe careful your mouse cursor and find interesting places

    I've started translating polish text, but I don't have much time.

    Enjoy!

32. Tammy
    July 14th, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    To clear up the spigot issue.....What they meant is that in Europe (where I currently live) the hot water and the cold water come out of two separate taps. There is a hot water top on the left of a sink and a cold water tap on the right of the sink. You cannot therefore mix the water in the taps unlike in Canada (where I'm from) where most places now have one tap with two spigots.

    Newer sinks tend to have one tap but the vast majority which have not been updated or where people want to keep to tradition have two. I do remember in my very old school in canada that the bathrooms had a cold and a hot tap, rather than one faucet.

33. Mark Strowger
    July 16th, 2009 at 8:30 am

    Just to be pedantic, the explaination clearly states a CORDLESS kettle, now go look at the picture.. good idea though

34. a
    July 16th, 2009 at 7:54 pm

    A cordless kettle with no cord at all, not even a cord going into the base? Hm, I like the idea, and the challenge.

    A kettle with it's own petrol generator would be stylish, might effect the taste a bit though. Solar or battery powered really wouldn't have the style, unless it's http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6616651.stm.

    Hmm... the ultimate cordless kettle would have a tall metal pole, and boil instantly when struck by lightning.

    I guess you could have a kettle that just has a plug, no cord, and you hold it against the socket until it's done, though that would really just be a corded kettle but crap.

35. hej hej
    July 17th, 2009 at 7:24 am

    Mark Strowger - It is a cordless kettle. The kettle itself has no cord, the cord is attatched to the base, which is not attatched to the kettle. So go flaunt your pedantic thoughts somewhere else.

36. Badgirl
    July 17th, 2009 at 11:12 am

    Convenience is the step-mother of invention

37. 88fingerz
    July 18th, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    “FAKE!!!!

    This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow’s are all wrong.”

    Aaron....

    You're a retard.

    I'm a graphic design artist....there's absolutely nothing wrong with the shadows in that image. All of the shadows are from camera flash.....which is a point-source light. That's why they're on the outside of everything relative to center. you can even see the reflection of the flash in BOTH the bottle and the sink spout.

    Hell.....it'd be more work to photoshop something like that together than it would be just to rig it up....whether it worked or not.

38. 88fingerz
    July 18th, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    and by "Aaron" I mean "Anom" lol.

39. un?ed
    July 18th, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    88fingerz got trolled harder than an ice giants raging boner.

40. James_thirteen
    August 10th, 2009 at 2:53 am

    Z hotelu mo?na zobaczy?, ?e drut uprawnie? podgrzewacz wody. ?e drut mo?e by? usuni?ty z urz?dzenia ma znaczenia jak drut jest niezb?dne do funkcji urz?dzenia. Dlatego podgrzewacz wody nie mo?e by? uznane bezprzewodowych.

    From the picture I can see the wire that powers the water heater. That the wire may be removed from the device is irrelevant as the wire is necessary for the device to function. Therefore the water heater may not be considered cordless.

41. nk
    August 10th, 2009 at 11:51 pm

    will this work as a shower ?

42. Gothrukk
    August 14th, 2009 at 9:40 am

    (...)in Europe many sinks have a cold and a hot spigot on each side of the sink(...)
    @bianca AFAIK separate outlets for hot and cold water are used only in Great Britain, which is quite different from the rest of Europe (they even drive the "wrong" side of the road)

43. HypheN
    October 27th, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    separate water outlets were quite common in old houses, in u.s, europe, canada, russia poland and all other countries i know of.. that's because it's alot easier to install and produce than the new ones.. but with the industrial revolution, it all changed.. nice idea tho, wondering if i'll install one myself...

44. dj1337
    November 20th, 2009 at 9:19 pm

    I think that the time when seperate outlets were common was really a long time ago. I'm living in Germany for 19 years now and I've never seen something like this (although I heard about it).

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