(via Wugsy) Update 1/28/06: Turns out that this DIY water heater was made by Patryk Sielski from Warsaw, Poland. Patryk wrote: I live in an academic hostel of Warsaw University of Technology. Unfortunately, we don't have hot water in our rooms, it's only in kitchen and toilet outside. This inconvenience caused me to think about hot water. Commercial heaters are to expensive to students, it's also a problem to assemble without temporary cutting off the water. Beside of that, the fuses would be immediately blown. |
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
/hee haw
It's amazing how my picture travelled around the world.
http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~psielski/usp/pow-en.html
Sang Tà u mua cái đun nước bằng nắng vỠmà dùng cho đỡ tốn điện nhé ku. Cái ấm đun nước để đấy đun nước pha chè mà uống. he he
Cheryl Mikela
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.
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..
erm... by not switching the kettle on
What is technology for? For whatever you can make it do, of course!
...or just turn both spigots to make warm water flow (instead of hot or cold)
Good for him!
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)
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!
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.
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.
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.
@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)
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.
On the mainland, we do have mixer-taps.