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07.13.2020

* Quick note: I fell asleep at 8pm in our comfy egg chair last night, so I didn't have time to post these. It is a really comfy chair!

  1. Alexa-enabled shower radio. 
  2. Building on that last one, why not build waterproof, rechargeable speakers you can install around your shower to sync to an Amazon Echo, Home Pod, or Google Home? I would love to jam in the shower!
  3. I would love to see homes being built here in the US to have the shower/bath combo like in Japan. In my studio apartment in Akita, I had a separate bath room that had a small area to sit on a stool, lather up, and shower. Right next to that area is a bathtub that was deep enough to come to my chin, and had a water circulator to keep the temperature at a constant heat. It was bliss! 
  4. Japanese-style toilets. Not just the built-in bidets, but in my studio apartment the toilet also had a heated seat (amazing in winter) and on the back, it had a mini-sink that drained into the toilet tank for you to wash your hands right there. No dirty hands touching doorknobs. 
  5. Pre-built "Magic Mirror" devices. There is an amazing group of makers online that use a television behind a one-way mirror, and a Rasbperry Pi, to display custom-coded information. Weather updates, schedule, news, RSS feeds, email, whatever you want. If you could pre-fab these where you have a simple UI to log in and design your own, it would be fantastic.

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