A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
Kill-a-Liter is a water faucet addition to help tangibly expose and reduce household water consumption. It was created by
Mohit Gupta, Hazel Onsrud and Niranjan Krishnamurthi for the "Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces," a graduate course at UC-Berkeley.
Kill A Liter is a system to help households reduce their water consumption by exposing usage information in situ. In its current physical embodiment, we have a prototype that is designed akin to a Brita Water filter, attachable to any faucet. The system detects a household’s water usage and based on preset thresholds, begins to slowly restrict the water flow from the faucet as usage increases. The user is allowed to obtain full water flow again by performing a simple pumping action. Our goal is to be able to tangibly, interactively and immediately show the user the effects of their (sometimes excessive) water consumption.
A Masters student at UC Berkeley's iSchool, Niranjan Krishnamurthi is a designer with a passion for user-centered, purposeful, design. Working with Mohit Gupta and Hazel Onsrud, also talents from the iSchool, the team devised Kill-a-liter, a device that has a purpose, is easy to use and fun!
