de-tech in bathroom products
ok, so scratch the project on the mechanical turk. still a neat idea.
something that I just remembered was how I get frustrated at bathroom products, especially the ones around MIT often.
it’s great if it is automated, but i have two problems often:
-it’s not intuitive
-it doesn’t work
somehow when I was in Japan for two weeks this summer, the bathroom products, automated or not, always work. when you hide away all the function to a product and it doesn’t work, that’s not good.
for something as simple as pumping soap, dispensing paper towels, or turning on water, wouldn’t you rather have something that is simple, mechanical, but reliable?