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Crave - Step into the smart shower of the future, Ep. 192

2015-02-12
hey guys my name is Steven B Sherman here's what's happening this week on CNET scram blog the top secret messaging app Wicker has released its own guide to personal online security in the form of psychedelic cat gifts the images are obviously very cute and Spacey but at the same time they do bring up some security concerns like making sure you cover your Smart TVs camera in light of the recent Samsung TV news reminders to always assume that if you using public Wi-Fi getting hacked is a possibility and a dire warning to turn off your geo-tagging on Instagram because are you kidding me right meow star wars superfan and documentary filmmaker Jaime Bening revisited the puppetry in Return of the Jedi in a short documentary about the making and operation of one of the most famous puppets of all time jabba the hutt jabba the hutt took three puppeteers to operate and is one of the largest and most expensive puppets ever built in his film Jamie interviews puppeteer Toby Philpott who controlled the left arm and tongue of Jabba the Hutt he talks about George Lucas's first impressions of the puppet and how the idea of a CGI character was being thrown around even back in the early 80s well thank the Sith Lords that the technology just hadn't caught up to George Lucas's early vision yet you can watch the entire documentary at Jamie's blog film you mentary kick a droid is currently raising funds on Kickstarter to take every bartender job in San Francisco and fulfill the tech elites plans of a hipster tech utopia The Keg adroit glides around on a wheeled platform is controlled via remote control and comes with a co2 tank regulator and tap system it can hold a medium sized keg comfortably and will cost early-bird pledgers a whopping $2,100 it's all good I'll just go to the fridge the shower of the future was developed by Sweden based company orbital Systems and what the company describes as an academic collaboration project with NASA the shower recycles the water you wash with cleaning and filtering it again and again saving the user up to 90% of regular water use in standard showers the shower of the future comes in either a standalone cabinet or floor integrated version and collects the waste water in a special drain containing to filter capsules and micro capsule and a nano capsule the micro capsule filters large particles from the water like skin sand and hair while the Nano capsule eliminates smaller things like germs metals and oil the water is then pumped back up through the showerhead on a continuous shower loop the shower comes with an app that lets you know when it's time to change your filter capsules and helps to keep track of how much water you were saving over time a bright LED will light up notifying you that it's time to change your filter capsules after tens of thousands of washes and it only takes about 30 seconds to easily switch out and you capsule the shower of the future is currently available for pre-order on their website and sells for between 4,000 and 5,000 dollars depending on the model read more details about the shower of the future in the crave blog post all right guys thank you very much for watching as always you can find all these news stories at CNET's crave bloggers crave cnet.com make sure you follow creep on twitter at crave and check out this week's crave giveaway this week's crib giveaway is the stylish Martian notifier SmartWatch with classic analog style and advanced phone alerts go to the blog and enter to win
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