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Motorized Spray Bottle - Have We Really Become This Lazy?

Posted June 06, 2008 11:33 AM

From OhGizmo!:

There's been countless inventions over the years that have made our lives easier, but at some point we have to draw the line. And I think a motorized spray bottle is as good a place as any to start. This 48oz model from Cepia can be filled with any liquid whether it be water, soap, herbicides or even pesticides, and pushing the small trigger button will cause the electric motor to automatically pump and spray for as long as you keep it pressed. Now I realize that if your home is filled with plants, watering them on a daily basis can get to be a bit tedious. But if you actually find the act of squeezing the trigger on a spray bottle to be too arduous a task, then I'd seriously suggest getting rid of some of your indoor foliage before resorting to a motorized spray bottle. But if you must have one, you can find it online for about $8-10.

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06/07/2008 11:14 AM

Great innovation for people with arthritis or other physical limitations.

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06/07/2008 12:53 PM

Great! Another gizmo for the home inventors arsenal! Now what can we use that for!

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06/07/2008 2:44 PM

I like the old pressurized ones. No batteries to pollute the enviro. Same effect. No suction problems when you tilt the bottle.

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06/07/2008 11:18 PM

I'd like a spray bottle that you pump up to pressurise it to spray whatever. I'm sure some one makes one but try to stay under $10us please.

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06/08/2008 9:00 PM

I'm guessing the person that wrote this thinks of only one person, that being him or herself. There are countless people in the world for whom using a normal spray bottle is either painfull or not even possible due to hands worn out from hard work; they call it arthritus. There are plenty of other people with other problems caused by injury or disease. Are you going to make fun of them too for wanting a devise to make life easier? So what's wrong with you? Maybe you have Jerkitus. I can't think of any device that would benefit that except maybe a gag.

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06/09/2008 1:17 PM

Try using a standard spray bottle with toxic weed killers and the thing starts to leaking around the trigger. You betcha, the motorized spray system is great in the place of the standard finger squeezer. It gets my vote as a good innovation. Hey, maybe adding a solar panel on a back pack or the side of the large gallon jug might be the next best thing to the small double A batteries might be the next step, whatca yall think?

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02/24/2010 2:50 PM

Is this product availible still?

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