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Monday March 27, 2006
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 Here at Gearlog, we'll try anything in the Relentless Pursuit of Awesomeness. And we find it in many places—including the bathroom, thanks to the fine folks at Kohler, the pre-eminent bathroom fixtures firm. Kohler recently introduced the DTV, which has simply nothing to do with Digital Television; it's an acronym for digital thermostatic valve. Half of the company's innovation is the thermostatic valve, the first valve to control flow based on water temperature. The other part is the touch-screen interface, which talks to the valves to regulate your water temperature, so you can program your shower to hit exactly 90—and to stay there.
But beyond that, Kohler's created a whole showering system. The digital interface can regulate up to eight showerheads, overheads, and body-sprayers (what, you don't have that many?), and it can program them to cycle on and off, at different speeds and pressures, and even at different temperatures. Want one yourself? You'll need to hire a contractor to put the whole thing in, and it'll run you around $2,000. But that money buys you complete controlled awesomeness…exactly the opposite of the pandemonium defined as Snakes on a Plane.
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March 27, 2006 12:30 PM
This...is absolutely amazing. It's the kind of shower system that a geek like me would die to have in their home. I wonder how much it runs for if you want it installed in your house. :)
March 27, 2006 3:08 PM
Ack! It says right there, about 2 grand! Sorry I missed that one, I was too busy staring at the shiny pictures. :) I suppose I shold start making a list of silly gear like this I want when I look to buy a new home, shouldn't I?
March 27, 2006 3:26 PM
That's what I've been doing, phoenix. Anything cool I see on the Web, I bookmark it in hopes of buying it one day! There's nothing like geeking up the crib!
March 28, 2006 9:43 PM
One difference I noticed off the press release and your post...it only controls six outlets, not eight.
March 28, 2006 10:21 PM
The valve can flow up to eight outlets total, but 2 of the 6 independatly controled outlets are pairs.
March 29, 2006 1:27 PM
My knowledgable sources tell me that should be ~20 gallons/min. output for a system like that. Hope you're on well water and not city water if you have one of these bad boys. But very cool and impressive nonetheless. Wonder if they're unveiling it at KBIS in a month...