A startup aims to “revolutionize the shower head” to drastically reduce the consumption of water, a seller theme in full drought in California. The shower Nebia has collected $ 1.5 million on Kickstarter crowdfunding platform. Its success lies in its potential for savings up to 70% on water consumption during each passage in the bathroom.
$ 1.48 million harvested less than 3 days
Launched this Tuesday, August 12 on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, the project of the company “Nebia” reached within hours of its target of 100 000 dollars fundraising, and funding pledges exceeded $ 1.48 million three days later. “The campaign on Kickstarter is incredible, a flood of support and interest from around the world,” said Thursday, August 13, 2015, Philip Winter, boss and co-founder of Nebia, who says he wants to “change the way people think about water in their daily lives, creating a more pleasant experience and saving 70% of the water. “
A support flood and interest from around the world
“The campaign on Kickstarter is incredible, a flood of support and interest from around the world,” said Thursday AFP Philip Winter, boss and co-founder of Nebia, who says he wants ” change the way people think about water in their daily lives, creating a more pleasant experience and saving 70% of the water. “
The product Nebia very design and can be installed in any bathroom, atomizes the water by millions of tiny droplets, a method for multiplying by 10 the contact surface compared to conventional shower heads, and thus to use much less water.
If it converted all Californians, the savings would amount to some 757 billion liters of water and almost four billion dollars a year, claim its inventors.
Five years to develop this shower head
Nebia, based in San Francisco, said he took more than five years to develop the shower head, which was tested last twelve months on campus technology giants Apple and Google, as well as Stanford University.
The startup says already count among its investors the boss of Apple, Tim Cook, the president of the family foundation board of directors of Google, Eric Schmidt, or one of the most reputable accelerators startups in Silicon Valley, Y Combinator.
Nebia shower head is in pre-sales on Kickstarter at the reduced rate of $ 299 for an estimated delivery for May 2016.
The showerhead the start-up Nebia atomizes water into tiny droplets
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