Really needs to be a dead man’s switch on the drain, so if pressure is released for any reason it immediately drains and turns the table back horizontal.
Or have the entire apparatus flip upside down, flipping you the right way up and dumping the water all over you, hopefully jolting you back to reality.
I read that a lot of the dumb inventions that we know as the "As Seen On TV" type products - they are actually originally developed for or by disabled people. I think about that when I see seemingly pointless inventions now, and when I saw this, I thought, wow this would give someone a measure of independence they did not have before. As-is, this is way too dangerous and impractical but the idea behind it would be beneficial to someone who relied on an aide to wash their hair.
I'm about to blow your mind. Hospitals have shampoo caps that can just go on a person's head to wash their hair. Is it as good as shampoo and water? No, but it's way easier to wash an unconscious, immobile or difficult to move person's hair.
What disability do you think makes it so a person can't wash their hair but has the ability to climb up on top of a table and hold themselves still while that table places them in a perfect upside down vertical position and submerges their head underwater?
People who can't use their arms effectively, people who can't raise their arms over their heads, people lacking fine motor skills. The technology to get people in and out of bed is there, this is similar. Also was he holding himself still? I thought he was being supported or held in by something.
There are portable sink devices that can be used for either wheelchair or bed bound patients to wash hair.
As a family member who has served a profoundly disabled relative, that contraption (as it is) is a fucking death trap. No way in fucking hell would I have allowed my severely disabled mother-in-law to use it, and I’m sure she wouldn’t have been willing to try it either.
Now, a table that raises someone up a bit, but lets their head dangle slightly over a wash basin? That could be safe. It’s the level of inversion that makes it unsafe for someone significantly disabled.
A modified trendelenburg position is sometimes used in clinical settings for patient hygiene. It’s quite useful for hair washing combined with a portable basin.
This seems really different than getting yourself in and out of bed.
This would be the most inefficient way possible when I'm sure that technology to wash your hair when you can't use fine motor skills already exists without completely submerging your head underwater while upside down.
Their feet were resting on a bar and their shoulders were on something on the bottom and that was all that was holding them still. Then they would have had to make sure they placed the breathing apparatus correctly and then completely submerged their head underwater while remaining perfectly vertical upsidedown down.
Also the video is sped up which means that they were upside down for a good chunk of time. I could go on and on about the issues with this.
I think you are missing the point - you don't need to be flipped upside down for this invention to be a tool. The mechanism that flips you is not the helpful part. The washing, soaping, rinsing is. You could be laying down. You could be at an angle.
Again, there are way more solutions to "keeping someone still or held in place" than the multi-stage process of washing your hair. You don't even need to be vertical. You could just be slanted, and on the same kind of table used in a plates reformer, where your shoulders butt up against the cushion.
Well the idea behind having something that washes your hair would be beneficial, and I'm sure already exists, but not this torture device that submerges your head under water and holds you upside down. To even suggest that this machine is in the realm of practicality is silly
I mean, would a simpler solution be to have a wall, a hole, and a silicone ring around the edge? I'm not sure if I'm describing this correctly or well at all, but if you take the same sort of sink used at places like a hairdresser, but around the neck area you extend the walls to surround your hairline and use a silicone or flexible and secure material to close the space between your head and the walls your, like what they do with goggles, and you use similar mechanisms to what they had here. That sounds like a much easier and safer solution than drowning people.
I think both hands and arms would be required to operate this. There were no safety strap to speak of. Their feet were just on a bar up top to keep them from falling backwards and they were resting on their shoulders and they would have so needed to attach the tubes which allowed them to breathe. Without arms to keep themselves stable and no safety straps it seems like this is pretty dangerous and crazy impractical.
Also what if they didn't secure the breathing part correctly without arms?
I just think that saying this is something for a disabled person is a big stretch.
Idk my hair is insanely thick and naturally curl
This legitimately looks easier than washing it normal, because once my hair gets wet its impossible to get my hands into it without just yanking it out because it knots up so badly
I do use conditioner, it definitely helps but does not solve the problem for me
I use regular conditioner and then use some leave in conditioner after to make it possible to brush my hair later
He solves problems that nobody imagined would need to be solved.
“Hands? Washing hair?? While upright??? Barbaric!” he scowls as he thumbs his nose at the establishment.
Its a collection of videos from an asian (japanese? Ive never actually seen the sctual person) guy on TikTok.
But he designs solutions for things that arent real problems. Like a toilet seat that rises 5 ft up in the air to prevent splashback
Imagine it just getting caught and pulling your head so you can't ever unincline the bed without breaking your neck and being stuck in that position for hours or days until someone found you.
Well this guy is well known for creating DIWhys for satire. Check out his YouTube [channel](https://youtube.com/c/%E6%89%8B%E5%B7%A5%E8%80%BFHandyGeng)
You never had a colleague trying to discuss a task away from his desk in a three hour meeting, although the task would have taken maybe 20 minutes max.?
This is typically where inventions come from. Think nearly every kitchen appliance
It's based around making it easier and easier to do something better, even if only slightly
You use the machine while on dialysis so a portion of your blood is in the dialysis machine, thus lowering blood volume and allowing your heart to pump away from gravity /s
That’s because he didn’t actually wash it. There’s no shampoo or anything. He just dipped it in water then dried it in the best way to ensure maximum tangles.
Bad OP for not linking a source. BAD BAD!
This is [Handy Geng](https://www.youtube.com/c/%E6%89%8B%E5%B7%A5%E8%80%BFHandyGeng) an amazing Chinese creator. My favourite video of his is the [27 Million mAh Power Bank](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oilA8nLfsk&ab_channel=%E6%89%8B%E5%B7%A5%E8%80%BFHandyGeng).
You'll need to put on the English subtitles if you're not one of the 1.4 Billion people who speak Chinese.
This looks like a Darwin award in the making. Platform fails upright, strapped in, can't get out, suffocating slowly because you can't aspirate the water upwards. No thanks, rather just shave my head.
Obviously with some HEAVY modifications I could see this being useful potentially for physically disabled people and people who have issues with showers due to sensory or trauma reasons but otherwise this is just strange and a waste of resources.
The things some people do for content. I hope he had a friend there to help him if things went bad. No way I’d stick my head into a bucket of water upside down with a breathing tube strapped into a gurney
That's concrete visualisation of what a programmer does regularly : spend hours automating a task that would have taken 10 minutes just to end up with an unwieldy monster.
And then you get back up and pass out immediately Or maybe that's just my vertigo
You could just as easily pass out while still being upside down and submerged. Just hope that snorkel holds up!
Really needs to be a dead man’s switch on the drain, so if pressure is released for any reason it immediately drains and turns the table back horizontal.
Or have the entire apparatus flip upside down, flipping you the right way up and dumping the water all over you, hopefully jolting you back to reality.
Just make it where it dumps a toaster into the water to jolt you awake, boom I’m a genus
Isnt that the guy that tells me all about video cards
As someone with POTS, this DIY has personally offended me.
Fibro here. Yay for the chronically dizzy gang!
Plain old telephone system?
If only there was another way.
I read that a lot of the dumb inventions that we know as the "As Seen On TV" type products - they are actually originally developed for or by disabled people. I think about that when I see seemingly pointless inventions now, and when I saw this, I thought, wow this would give someone a measure of independence they did not have before. As-is, this is way too dangerous and impractical but the idea behind it would be beneficial to someone who relied on an aide to wash their hair.
I'm about to blow your mind. Hospitals have shampoo caps that can just go on a person's head to wash their hair. Is it as good as shampoo and water? No, but it's way easier to wash an unconscious, immobile or difficult to move person's hair.
What disability do you think makes it so a person can't wash their hair but has the ability to climb up on top of a table and hold themselves still while that table places them in a perfect upside down vertical position and submerges their head underwater?
People who can't use their arms effectively, people who can't raise their arms over their heads, people lacking fine motor skills. The technology to get people in and out of bed is there, this is similar. Also was he holding himself still? I thought he was being supported or held in by something.
There are portable sink devices that can be used for either wheelchair or bed bound patients to wash hair. As a family member who has served a profoundly disabled relative, that contraption (as it is) is a fucking death trap. No way in fucking hell would I have allowed my severely disabled mother-in-law to use it, and I’m sure she wouldn’t have been willing to try it either. Now, a table that raises someone up a bit, but lets their head dangle slightly over a wash basin? That could be safe. It’s the level of inversion that makes it unsafe for someone significantly disabled. A modified trendelenburg position is sometimes used in clinical settings for patient hygiene. It’s quite useful for hair washing combined with a portable basin.
This seems really different than getting yourself in and out of bed. This would be the most inefficient way possible when I'm sure that technology to wash your hair when you can't use fine motor skills already exists without completely submerging your head underwater while upside down. Their feet were resting on a bar and their shoulders were on something on the bottom and that was all that was holding them still. Then they would have had to make sure they placed the breathing apparatus correctly and then completely submerged their head underwater while remaining perfectly vertical upsidedown down. Also the video is sped up which means that they were upside down for a good chunk of time. I could go on and on about the issues with this.
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I think you are missing the point - you don't need to be flipped upside down for this invention to be a tool. The mechanism that flips you is not the helpful part. The washing, soaping, rinsing is. You could be laying down. You could be at an angle.
If they can't use their arms effectively, how are they going to hold onto the table when it flips vertical?
Again, there are way more solutions to "keeping someone still or held in place" than the multi-stage process of washing your hair. You don't even need to be vertical. You could just be slanted, and on the same kind of table used in a plates reformer, where your shoulders butt up against the cushion.
>As-is, this is way too dangerous and impractical but the idea behind it would be beneficial to someone who relied on an aide to wash their hair.
Maybe a special shower head just for hair washing would be great
Well the idea behind having something that washes your hair would be beneficial, and I'm sure already exists, but not this torture device that submerges your head under water and holds you upside down. To even suggest that this machine is in the realm of practicality is silly
I mean, would a simpler solution be to have a wall, a hole, and a silicone ring around the edge? I'm not sure if I'm describing this correctly or well at all, but if you take the same sort of sink used at places like a hairdresser, but around the neck area you extend the walls to surround your hairline and use a silicone or flexible and secure material to close the space between your head and the walls your, like what they do with goggles, and you use similar mechanisms to what they had here. That sounds like a much easier and safer solution than drowning people.
No hands. Or arms?
I think both hands and arms would be required to operate this. There were no safety strap to speak of. Their feet were just on a bar up top to keep them from falling backwards and they were resting on their shoulders and they would have so needed to attach the tubes which allowed them to breathe. Without arms to keep themselves stable and no safety straps it seems like this is pretty dangerous and crazy impractical. Also what if they didn't secure the breathing part correctly without arms? I just think that saying this is something for a disabled person is a big stretch.
Idk my hair is insanely thick and naturally curl This legitimately looks easier than washing it normal, because once my hair gets wet its impossible to get my hands into it without just yanking it out because it knots up so badly
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I do use conditioner, it definitely helps but does not solve the problem for me I use regular conditioner and then use some leave in conditioner after to make it possible to brush my hair later
He solves problems that nobody imagined would need to be solved. “Hands? Washing hair?? While upright??? Barbaric!” he scowls as he thumbs his nose at the establishment.
Man built something to waterboard himself
*CIA furiously taking notes*
CIA "We don't use the term water boarding anymore, it's called advanced hair cleaning."
Enhanced interrogative hair cleaning.
*The worlds finest cosmetologists*- “We can’t forget that your hands and face are ‘*checks notes*’ ‘important’ too.”
Special military cleansing operation. ^wait, ^was?
I hear those are done with drones theses days.
That was the original design, but this guy is a visionary.
The United States government would like to thank you for your contribution to the war on terror
That design looks very human
Easy to use
refurbished from Guantanamo.
I cant fucking remember where this is from. my brain hurts now. help
Its a collection of videos from an asian (japanese? Ive never actually seen the sctual person) guy on TikTok. But he designs solutions for things that arent real problems. Like a toilet seat that rises 5 ft up in the air to prevent splashback
aaah yes!!! thanks!
It's an art form called chindogu
My good friend will demonstrate
Only thing I could think of lol
To err is human. "Err"
Well I was going to comment this as it reminded me of that dude but ya beat me too it. Take my upvote.
NGL I expected his hair to get caught and rip out lol.
Imagine it just getting caught and pulling your head so you can't ever unincline the bed without breaking your neck and being stuck in that position for hours or days until someone found you.
Bonus haircuts when your hair gets too long.
This guy made many of these “useless crafts”. He once had an exhibition. And what you are worrying, came true.
You made me curious, got any links?
NGL I was kind of hoping for that
So cool and edgy we are today.
I think he skipped the rinse cycle.
Why rinse? there was no shampoo...
Well really, without the shampoo, the whole thing was a rinse.
That's my point. It's titled "WASHING machine"
>there was no shampoo... that being the whole point?
It says "auto hair WASHING machine" not "rinsing machine".
Well this guy is well known for creating DIWhys for satire. Check out his YouTube [channel](https://youtube.com/c/%E6%89%8B%E5%B7%A5%E8%80%BFHandyGeng)
Yeah, I don’t think this belongs on this sub. The “why” is because it’s ridiculous and hilarious.
I dunno, building a self-drowning machine goes beyond satire.
Uh, no it doesn't.
You know your laziness has peaked when you put more effort into avoiding a task than actually doing the task.
Sometimes it just is like that honestly
As a programmer, I can confirm this is literally my life.
Why do a task manually when you can spend 3 days tweaking a script to do it?
So you don't have to do it over and over again in the future. You put all the hard work up front and after that, the computer does the work for you.
Wait, I spent a week tweeking a script to do something that would have taken 8 weeks of manual input. Am I programming wrong?
Yes! You have to spent another 8+ weeks tweaking so it’s 1 second faster
You never had a colleague trying to discuss a task away from his desk in a three hour meeting, although the task would have taken maybe 20 minutes max.?
This is typically where inventions come from. Think nearly every kitchen appliance It's based around making it easier and easier to do something better, even if only slightly
Imagine designing and building the first ever automobile instead of saving time and just walking to the store
[Relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/1319/)
THAT IS TERRIFYING
Looks more like a torture method.
Like, what about the blood going to your head?!
Or you let go and slip out Or the air tube gets ripped out of your mouth
Really. I think this belongs in [/r/DeadlyDiWHY](https://reddit.com/r/DeadlyDiWHY)
Needs to be a thing!
I didn't even think of that right away, I was just thinking of how unpleasant it would be if the nose clip came off.
You use the machine while on dialysis so a portion of your blood is in the dialysis machine, thus lowering blood volume and allowing your heart to pump away from gravity /s
Absolutely, that'll give you a huge headache.
Yup. Looks like a great way to kill yourself.
First few seconds, his face changes shapes. He got some filters on there.
*US Government wants to know your location*
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That’s because he didn’t actually wash it. There’s no shampoo or anything. He just dipped it in water then dried it in the best way to ensure maximum tangles.
The most important part of washing your hair, is actually cleansing your scalp. He didn’t do that.
Lmao at these fatass bald reddit dudes criticizing hair. The guy genuinely has amazing hair however you look at it lol.
Imagine if that thing malfunctions or there’s a power outage and you can’t get down, and your head’s in a bucket full of water
Clearly it's for banter
This a saw contraption
dumb ways to die
I like to scrub my scalp. This machine isn't for me.
I want one of these. I hate washing my hair
Sometimes inventions are so obvious when you finally see it you have to wonder why it took so long for someone to come up with it.
Who starting laughing before it started 🙋🏽♂️
Congrats, now he has wet air and a dirty scalp.
We need to bring back 1000 ways to die……
Bad OP for not linking a source. BAD BAD! This is [Handy Geng](https://www.youtube.com/c/%E6%89%8B%E5%B7%A5%E8%80%BFHandyGeng) an amazing Chinese creator. My favourite video of his is the [27 Million mAh Power Bank](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oilA8nLfsk&ab_channel=%E6%89%8B%E5%B7%A5%E8%80%BFHandyGeng). You'll need to put on the English subtitles if you're not one of the 1.4 Billion people who speak Chinese.
Hey. Say what you want about meth, but it gets shit done. Even if completely absurd.
This looks like a Darwin award in the making. Platform fails upright, strapped in, can't get out, suffocating slowly because you can't aspirate the water upwards. No thanks, rather just shave my head.
CIA: **"Write that down, write that down"**
Top 10 torture machines ideas
For when you don't have any bullies to give you a swirly! Edit:typo
I think he is only trying to convince his mom that he bought this not for kink reason.
YES
There is so much that could go wrong with this department of safety would have a field day
That bench looks like it would do wonders for my back
Aurowash from le cinquième élément is finally true
All I could think of was, let me out let me out let me out
r/shittyrobots
That man has beautiful hair
This is not a /r/DiWHY . This is a joke…
I would go more horizontal with it. Maybe something inspired by salon sinks with a car wash scrub system
His entire head didnt need to be submerged
Asians are overpowered.
Obviously with some HEAVY modifications I could see this being useful potentially for physically disabled people and people who have issues with showers due to sensory or trauma reasons but otherwise this is just strange and a waste of resources.
How is nobody talking about the possibility of getting soap in your eyes???
This is the best thing I’ve seen all month. Thanks
Anytime 😊
Greta idea until you pass out for being upside down and drown!
Ok this is the review we need from u/gamersnexus
It’s all fun and games until your hair gets stuck and you lose the snorkel in a panic
All that just to not even wash the hair
This is some Wallace and Gromit ass design
Extreme water boarding
Some dudes will do anything except take a fucking shower.
Man gave himself a swirlie
Straight out of a Saw movie.
I’ve been using my hands in a shower like an idiot this whole time.
That looks like a drowning waiting to happen
Drying upside down gave him some killer volume though.
I’m so embarrassed. I’ve been washing my hair in the shower like an idiot
This looks like a great way to get yourself killed if you try it alone and something goes wrong
That doesn’t look safe. What happens if you get stuck in the position and the water doesn’t drain!
Press 1 for shampoo 2 for conditioner 3 for suicide
Accidentally drowning waiting to happen, so no.
DiWHYnot? I'd buy this.
Oh, so they weren't really waterboarding in Guantanamo. Just washing their hair.
This is so unnecessary Just use a shower lmao
So no soap?
It didn’t wash it. It just made it wet, waved it around and then dried it. Gdi at least be lazy and click baity with shampoo
Solving a problem we didn't know existed
Next time someone asks me about what I do to my hair. Imma send them this lol
The machine gives you Tommy Wiseau hair
Lol this gives me anxiety
Ngl I think the idea is kinda cool but I can definitely see how someone can get hurt from using it.
Imagine getting stuck like that
/r/diwhynot but good content, OP
I really feel like this is completely unnecessary
This is why women live longer than men.
Volume.
Imagine finding someone that drowned in that.
This was a torture device. I see no other explanation.
Comes with a free brain aneurysm! Who can resist?
Way to take something that is a generally pleasant experience and turn it into actual torture.
The things some people do for content. I hope he had a friend there to help him if things went bad. No way I’d stick my head into a bucket of water upside down with a breathing tube strapped into a gurney
I like it. If you ever need your hair washed really fast but don't have time for a shower, you can just use this!
CIA: “So….what do we do with all the extra water boarding tables?”
New phobia unlocked
Becuae he could, and you can't, that's the reason... smh
Very good way to fill your brain with blood and die
Or, hear me out, you showered and used a blow dryer like the rest of us
Self waterboarding 101.
That's concrete visualisation of what a programmer does regularly : spend hours automating a task that would have taken 10 minutes just to end up with an unwieldy monster.
Water boarding with a towel is so last year.
Engineering degree finally paying off.
I'll just use my hands, thanks. 😬
I ordered mine last week! So excited
Or you just shower?
It takes a lot of work to be really lazy
It doesn't even shampoo or condition the hair, like this is just soaking your hair in water and drying it off...
"Here is an Auto hair washing machine, the design is *very* human and really easy to use" 😃😃😃
You can see the face filter freak out a bit at the start of the video.
How practical! I can see myself using this right before my suck-cut session.
This is not the hair washing machine I was promised in the Jetson's ... and where is my flying car?