Forget chilly plunge swimming pools. The new flex might quickly be human washing machines.
According to considered one of Japan’s oldest newspapers, an Osaka-based bathe head maker known as Science has developed a contraption that’s formed like a cockpit, fills with water when a bather sits in a seat at its middle, and measures the individual’s pulse and different organic information by way of sensors to make sure the temperature is good. It additionally “projects images on the inside of [its] transparent cover to help the person feel refreshed,” says the outlet.
Dubbed “Mirai Ningen Sentakuki” (human washer of the longer term), the equipment would possibly by no means go on sale. Indeed, for now the corporate’s plans for it seem restricted to an expo in Osaka this April, the place as much as eight folks can expertise a 15-minute-long “wash and dry” every day after first reserving a reservation.
Still, a home-use model is reportedly additionally within the works. Its intention? To “wash the mind” in addition to the physique, in accordance with earlier literature from the corporate.