Video: iHouse SmartFaucet with face recognition is more smug than smart

Ready for the ultimate in convergence overkill? Meet the SmartFaucet from iHouse; a tap with built-in face recognition technology that automatically adjusts the water pressure and temperature to your preferred settings. The touchscreen display even features widgets for at-a-glance access to eMail, appointments, and the outside temperature while LEDs illuminate the flow with temperature matching colors. iHouse's Fadec (pictured after the break) also adds face recognition to a 2.8-inch in-house remote control. That little trick allows the remote to respond to pre-programmed scenes (think AC, lighting, audio) customized by inhabitant. Too much? Never.

[Via BornRich]

[Saturdays Posted Apr 21st 2009 8:20AM]

Where do you buy this?

[kingu Posted Apr 21st 2009 9:00PM]

On the streets presumably.

[jahcriado Posted Apr 21st 2009 9:03AM]

Alright, alright, it is hilarious, but which editor photoshoped in the coke & bill?? Come one now, just because this seems like over the tops 80's extravagance (or maybe something you'd see in CSI: MIAMI) doesn't mean it'd come with a side of coke.


Though they may use it to smuggle it in...

[hardluckstories Posted Apr 21st 2009 10:48AM]

Thats fantastic! it's great to see stuff like this, really gets the imagination going of what is possible using the recent leaps in technology and cost effective production!

Totally not over the top! i want one!

(Monster Cable still sucks ass)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 21st 2009 11:02AM]

Unfortunately, this company wont go out of business anytime soon. If you know anything about the market in brazil, the rich 1% of the population that can afford these things, generally buy these things. and because the company that produces it overprices, they should be in business a long time even if 10 people bought it.

N41

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 21st 2009 11:11AM]

Sink Activate! Sink Terminate!

[Markus Posted Apr 21st 2009 11:19AM]

Who's laughing now, simple task of washing hands?

[bdav Posted Apr 21st 2009 11:21AM]

This thing would be about 10x more useful if it had some kind of rangefinder to detect when the water in the bath is about to overflow.

Maybe they'll give them away free, subsidized by some crazy Brazilian Voyeuristic porno site.....

[maveric101 Posted Apr 21st 2009 11:22AM]

i can't believe people are missing the incredibly hot girl in the second pic.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 21st 2009 11:32AM]

I'd do her.

[RafterManFMJ Posted Apr 21st 2009 11:53AM]

"Shitter's full."

[GingerFox Posted Apr 21st 2009 12:00PM]

how would you get water if the power were to go out?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 21st 2009 7:28PM]

I get the "personal comfort recognition" concept but email on your faucet? Really? So I wash my face and while I have soap on my eye read email? Um, no.

[KarlB Posted Apr 21st 2009 1:17PM]

> LEDs illuminate the flow with temperature matching colors
What temperature corresponds to "hideous gawdawful dayglow industrial-waste pink"?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 21st 2009 8:24PM]

So when will Apple decide to sue iHouse?

[pleasantcrew Posted Apr 21st 2009 9:27PM]

I love the bath tub!

[kingu Posted Apr 21st 2009 10:37PM]

I was curious till i saw their site was full of flash.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2009 2:01AM]

I would love it my house.

[Je5ter Posted Apr 22nd 2009 9:45AM]

Is it just me but what is the pile of white stuff to the left of the faucet with which appears to be a rolled up bill??

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2009 5:48PM]

LOL... it's Engadget's sense of humor combined with Photoshop.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2009 5:45PM]

Email and appointments displayed in a bath faucet? Stupid.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 23rd 2009 2:11PM]

"Another qualude and she's gonna love me again."

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2009 1:57AM]

the coke and the rolled up dollar note just makes the product look appealing..