LED CHROMATHERAPY
14 August 2008
“What Color is Your World?”
The coolest thing about having something no one else has is that no one else has it! And if you are one of those who buy into that sort of thinking, well, have I got some products for you. Think about this. You turn on the hot water in the kitchen, wait for it to get hot, then go about washing whatever needs washing. Nothing unusual—you do that sort of thing just about every day of your life, right? Suppose, thoug
h, that we give that most mundane of activities a new twist. Suppose, instead, that you have a faucet that will tell you the temperature of the water just by looking at the water—even in the dark! Because, c’mon, anyone can wait for the steam to begin, but did you ever think of simply waiting until the water changed colors from blue to red? Not many of us have because not many of us have, ta-da, these new products that I just know you can’t do without.
These faucets are from a Germany company named Hansa, and to make sure that their name is always at the forefront, they have used the company na
me as part of the name for many of their products. The kitchen faucet is called Hansacanyon, and it really is a canyon of sorts, as it runs the water down an open channel, just to be doing something different and to emphasize the changing of colors—which is, of course, the most intriguing part of the design. The whole concept of lighting water just seems, from the outside looking in, to be very dangerous, but using LED lights and a bit of ingenuity they have figured out how to do it. And for those who like the idea of color therapy in the shower—or who just want something different there too—they have a Hansacolourshower that is a shower system designed to pamper you with a wide variety of colors.
The other innovative idea in the area of LED lighting that I wanted to share with you is a line of sinks from Lotus Aquatech, which they call Nymphaea. These are all hand-crafted crystal glass sinks that would have been the star of any bathroom on their own, but just to up the ante a bit, these sinks have a ring of LED lights around their bases that have been programmed to change colors as the basin fills w
ith heated water, going from blue to red. What I particularly like about this line, though, is that it takes what could have been a Coney Island idea (glass that changes color) and elevates it to true art with the elegance of their basin designs.
Having adopted the Greek ideal of “nothing overmuch” for my own, I don’t know that I would necessarily advocate using all of these products in one’s home, but certainly one or two would add a little fun and allow you to make your world any color you want it to be!
Joseph
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