[thanks to BenFrost for inspiration. ref: Celebrity Soap]
Bathroom tiles are an interesting material. Before applying the glaze layer to the tiles, embed a laptop-type display layer, fully enabling the tile to display images. This new display capability can be clustered together to form a large television, or can be arranged in a pattern throughout the wall surface to provide an ever-changing pattern of designs.
Depending upon the number of "video tiles" actually used, and the arrangement of the video tiles, there can be various uses:
1. Simple Light in the tub with various colors (rainbow ?). Can help you get up in the morning. 2. Television (when tiles are clustered) 3. Lots of Tiles: Simulate outdoor shower, variety of locations 4. Sure, there's the porn implications 5. Celebrity Soap 6. Coming soon: Imax-Shower. Full surround-style immersive immersion.
The glazing would provide thermal insulation for those who enjoy showers with extreme temperatures. (hot or cold)-- mahatma, May 12 2003 Bathtub Television http://www.tiletv.com/.. as referred to by [farty] .. [bpilot, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004] I wish this was my idea! (+)-- silverstormer, May 12 2003 Grab that shower head and play some kind of firefighter video game.-- lurch, May 12 2003 Nice. (+)
7. The image on each screen could be that of a regular ceramic bath tile.-- beauxeault, May 12 2003 So do I, bliss, and the exotic tile is what I had in mind. But it could also be just a plain old flat, single color (even an outdated color) tile image, for ironic effect.-- beauxeault, May 12 2003 Hundreds of pictures of eyeballs, to freak out your shy roommate.-- krelnik, May 12 2003 A picture of a shower curtain, with the shadow of a big knife wielding hand might be fun.-- silverstormer, May 12 2003 I'd like a "Life" game played out on my shower walls in full surround every morning.-- my face your, May 12 2003 Doesn't this already exist? The tiles are effectively and LCD television. If you put enough of them together you've got the same effect !
TILETV allows you to watch TV in your shower or bath. They come in 10, 15, 17 and 23 inch LCD units - all completely waterproof and with fully waterproof remote controls. also stereo/teletext/video connections.
( if you don't beleive me try searching for tiletv on any search engine )-- farty, Jan 09 2004 yes, it's a great idea but it's baked. I solved this problem by installing a Sharp LCD TV on the opposite wall and speakers in the ceiling -- the shower door is transparent-- theircompetitor, Jan 09 2004 //the shower door is transparent//
Oh god, do you know what the word PRIVACY means?-- croissantz, Aug 22 2004 This is baked at a number of hotels I've stayed in - the one that comes to mind is The Chamberlain Hotel on The Minories in London (very nice place to stay if you're working in the city)-- zen_tom, Aug 22 2004 Reminds me of that 'toilet in the middle of the city' somewhere in Europe - the one with the one-way mirrored walls, that challenges you to be a reverse voyeur. If you had Sharp's 3D LCD, with the projection of the unit below (in multi-level dwellings), that'd be quite weird.-- lcllam2, Aug 22 2004 random, halfbakery