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In a space no larger that a bathtub, Ideal Standard now offer the luxury spa treatments product. A three-in-one shower cabin, Tris pampers you with dry sauna heat, a hot steaming bath, hydro massage or a refreshing tropical rain shower. With so many sensual spa treatments in a single cabin, you’ll never have to choose when designing you personal luxury bathroom.

This is the case of Ideal Standards too and their latest products, the Tris, which is a multi functional shower cabin, enclosing a shower, sauna and steam room, in a space no bigger than the length of a bath tub. The Tris is guaranteed to relieve stress and tension with a relaxing tropical rain shower or stimulating hydromassage.

Fit for an urban home that barely stretches comfortably to accommodate a bathtub, this compact de-stressing system occupies equivalent space. No longer do you need to visit the spas for aromatherapy or hydro-massage sessions. Integrated with all the necessary features like thermostatic mixer, hygrometer, stove and specific temperature controls, operating this unit couldn’t be more user-friendly. A foldable seat also allows more standing space.

With Tris you can actually choose to take a shower in a different way every time, thanks to its dual function overhead shower (normal rain or mist jet tropical rain), hydromassage body jets and handspray. The dual function overhead shower has 11 nozzles for normal rain and 8 mist nozzles for tropical rain, while the hydromassage function has 6 body jets.

The thermostatic shower mixer controls water flow as well as maintaining your ideal water temperature, being made of special heat resistant materials which are safe to the touch. The handspray has a retractable 1.25m long hose, silicon nozzles which resist lime scale formation.

The Tris steam room features an oil burner for aromatherapy and a digital touch panel for temperature control. The temperature inside the steam room ranges from 40 to 60 degrees Celsius, while the humidity rapidly reaches 100%.

The sauna features a hygrometer, which measures the level of humidity inside the Tris, a stove accompanied by 2kg of volcanic stones and a bucket and ladle made of Iroko wood. The downside of the Tris? Only its price tag, which goes up to 18,500 US dollars.

The 3M MPro110 pocket projector is about the size of a late 90’s mobile phone (4.5″x2″). On the front of the unit is a small lens opening, on the back is where you’ll find the power and video connectors, and on the side is a single power button and a lens focus wheel.
The MPro110 is powered by an internal Lithium-Ion battery pack which should offer enough juice for about an hour of continuous use. Inside the unit is a tiny 3M projection module, which uses an LED light for illumination.

Of course, as regular travelers, you are probably scratching your head wondering just why on earth you would ever consider carrying a pocket projector in your luggage. To answer this, I’ve put together a couple of scenarios where the projector could come in handy.

Probably most logical scenario for the projector is to give business presentations using your laptop or Netbook computer. Anyone out there who has had to drag a projector through the airport will understand just what a pain in the ass it is, not to mention having to deal with the constant threat of the poor projector being damaged mid trip.
The MPro110 comes with connection cables for standard video sources as well as a VGA cable for connecting it to a laptop or other device with a VGA plug.

The 3M MPro110 will retail for about $359 and will be available worldwide September 30th. It does not have a speaker, so you will have to get that separately. Nevertheless, how good could a microscopic speaker jammed into this thing sound, anyway.

Japan’s Sharp Corp. said Wednesday that it has developed an air purifier that eliminates 99.9 percent of the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu within 10 minutes.
The system has been improved from an earlier version which was shown in 2005 to have eliminated 99 percent of the H5N1 virus when airborne, Sharp official Kenji Ota told reporters.
The plasmacluster ion technology, developed in 2000, disables airborne micro-organisms by releasing positive and negative ions into the air.
Direct contact with infected poultry, or surfaces contaminated by their faeces, is currently considered the main cause of human infection with the H5N1 virus, according to the World Health Organization.
But influenza is a hard virus to beat and will need several lines of defence, said John Oxford, a University of London professor who heads Retroscreen Virology, a British research institute involved in the project.
“This kind of new technology will add something to (our) ammunition box,” he told the same press conference.
Plasmacluster ions have also proved effective against 26 other kinds of harmful airborne substances, including bacteria and allergens, Sharp said.
During the tests, the H5N1 virus was sprayed in a one-cubic metre (1.3-cubic yard) box with a concentration of 50,000 ions per cubic centimetre. Samples were then taken 10 minutes later and injected into cell cultures.
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed more than 240 people worldwide since late 2003, according to the World Health Organization.
The virus typically spreads from bird to human through direct contact, but experts fear it could mutate into a form easily transmissible between humans, with the potential to kill millions in a pandemic.
Plasmacluster technology can be installed in air conditioners, dehumidifiers and air purifiers for home and industrial use, although Sharp gave no indication of when the latest technology might be used commercially.
Sanyo Electric Co. has also developed a similar technology that proved 99 percent efficient in removing the bird flu virus using electrolysed tap water.