{"id":1395,"date":"2013-08-27T14:10:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livinghouse.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2013-08-27T14:10:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:10:32","slug":"the-future-turn-your-bath-water-into-a-touch-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livinghouse.co.uk\/blog\/the-future-turn-your-bath-water-into-a-touch-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"The future: turn your bath water into a touch screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time it was enough to sing in the shower. Then came waterproof radios for real music in the bathroom. Now we have waterproof\u00a0flat screen TVs<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0watch while we linger in the bath.<\/p>\n

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Technology has come a long way. Most of us now own smartphones which we’re used to having with us 24\/7. We use them for everything from social media to gaming. So what happens when we take a bath?<\/p>\n

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Some clever gamers in Japan have come up with an ingenious idea<\/a>. It’s currently still in the development stages, but already you can see the potential.<\/p>\n

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Interactive bath water<\/b><\/h4>\n

At the\u00a0Koike Laboratory in Tokyo, they’ve developed a system to project a screen onto the bath water, which also uses submerged waterproof speakers and LED lights to create a novel gaming format.<\/p>\n

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With the Aqua Top Display, you can use your fingers as the cursor to move things around.\u00a0 Letting your hand hover over the water creates a beam of light. Cup your hands together for a ball of light. Fingers sticking out of the water can be used to \u2018shoot\u2019 at targets. In the working prototype, the target seems to be a cute bath-time duck!<\/p>\n

See it in action:<\/p>\n