Water may be a liquid, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be shaped. If you’ve ever mucked about looking for water experiments on YouTube, you would have seen that it can be guided into a variety of standing waves by sound.
The shape of the aperture through which water flows can also be designed in such a way as to shape the flow — as seen in a concept faucet designed by London’s Royal College of Art student Simin Qiu. Called Swirl, and the recipient of a 2014 iF Haier special prize student award, the faucet is not just designed as a water saving measure — saving up to 15 percent of water used over a regular faucet.
Images: Simin Qiu
via cnet
