More awesome low-tech meets high tech. Did io9 just start reading TreeHugger or something? There have been a ton of green friendly tech posts recently. I mean, not that I'm complaining. The whole point of tech is to improve our lives.

That said, I love how something like "Death Ray" or "Apocalypse" gets worked into the title.

"New Dyson Wheelbarrow: Help clear the rubble after WWIII"

"No David, 'pod' is in right now with the iPod and such. So you can call it iRain, or RainPod, but for the last fucking time... You can't call it RainTittie, I don't care what it looks like."

@Garrison Dean ★: I does look a bit like some cyclopean totem to bovine lactation, don't it?

@Miranda Kali: Glad to hear that from someone of the fairer sex. I've been known to see those things where they aren't. Part of being a dude i guess.

@Miranda Kali: Looks more like the Gonarch from Half-life. Though my mind didn't immediately go to the breast. It went to something lower on the opposite sex, though equally pendulous.

@Miranda Kali: I still just see a penis.

@Garrison Dean ★: "I've been known to see those things where they aren't." Why? Have you been cheesing? Really though, I have quite a dirty mind, I just try to temper it with a smidgeon of tact. @Illuminatus: Pendulous with much girth!

I can hardly wait until this designer and H.R. Giger collaborate a housewares line. It'll be good for the planet and allow people to be vaguely turned on/ horrified by their salt shakers.

@Annalee Newitz: I used to work in a bookstore where that happened to me all time.

@Annalee Newitz: You must see a lot of very short and stubby members if your first thought was wang.

@Miranda Kali: Oh yeah. I never visit io9 unless I'm cheesing my brains off.

What's wrong with a good old fashioned rain barrel? Or perhaps a reservoir...

It'll be interesting what happens with the mutant termites eat through one of those legs too... "Here lies Mad Max, killed by a giant falling boob..."

@Annalee Newitz: You want phallic? Check out the Sterling Engine diagram (someone linked to it on the solar death-ray post)

I thought it looked like the "fresh end" of a tampon on a 3-legged McGowan - did I think too much about this?

I built one of those with a 20$ plastic cistern hooked up to the rain spout.

@Annalee, the word "scrotal" comes to mind.

In the city, I think the challenge would be to capture the water from your gutters. A lot of cities don't even let you do that though.