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Turning Your Bathwater Into A Digital Touchscreen

Way better than an inflatable iPad!

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Of course you wish you could watch a movie in your bathtub. Why shouldn't you keep chatting with your friends on Facebook or browsing the rest of the Internet in the middle of your bubbly water? And we're not talking about a waterproof iPad.

Yes folks, we're about to truly go too far, or achieve perfect domestic paradise, thanks to Yasushi Matoba from Tokyo's University of Electro-Communication, who has designed a touchscreen on water that allows you to play videogames, watch movies and scroll through your usual computer’s interface while playing with your favorite rubber ducky.

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Welcome to Monday, where Turkey strikes Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq hours after a suicide blast hit Ankara’s interior ministry, a UN mission arrives in Nagorno-Karabakh and the Nobel Prize season kicks off. Meanwhile, Wiktoria Bielaszyn, in Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza, reports on the suspected spy network operated by the Russian Orthodox Church through its clergy members abroad, particularly in the U.S.

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