Imagine a household that takes 100 showers' worth of water out of its own wastewater in a single month. That is roughly what a Japanese company says happened in a demonstration home in Antigua and Barbuda, and it is now using the result to argue for a different way to supply water on islands.
On November 3, 2026, WOTA, a Tokyo-based water technology company and Earthshot Prize finalist, issued a news release timed to the Commonwealth Business Forum 2026, held November 2 to 4. In it, WOTA pr...
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Water Regeneration
Smart Bed for kids with a “monster detector.”
Smart bed for kids monitors their snoozing cycles and determines if diet, stress and other daily activities are impacting the quality of their sleep. The bed, which is equipped with tiny hidden sensors, uses digital-signal capture within the mattress and processing techniques to pick up on motion and pressure. It tracks a child's breathing and heart-rate throughout the night too, and blends that data with other factors to determine a SleepIQ score in the morning. The higher the number (based fro...
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Sleep Number’s x12 smart bed monitors your sleeping habits.
Sleep Number just announced the x12, which packs a variety of sensors to monitor your sleeping habits, movement, heart rate and breathing rate. The bed has two sections, each of which are independently adjustable, so that once the bed knows your sleeping patterns, it can suggest ways you might want to change, say, the head incline. Additionally and this is perhaps our favorite feature a Partner Snore feature allows you raise your partner's headrest to help ease snoring.
Having a lumpy mattres...
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Horizontal Showers Enhance Showering Experience
A horizontal shower provides, for the first time, a reclining shower experience.
Imagine if you could extend your nap time by a precious 10 minutes or so when you wake up. Most of us can barely muster the energy to get out of bed and go into the shower in the morning. German company Dornbracht has actually made this possible by creating a device called the Horizontal Shower which washes you while you are lying down.
The shower looks like a tanning bed mounted to the wall with an array of s...
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