Are you ready to bring your bathroom into the 21st century?  Smartphones and apps have taken over our world making life easier by the minute.  These awesome bathroom tech advances can make your bathroom just as “smart” as the rest of your home!

Touchless Faucet, Toilet, and Soap Dispenser

• Think about it…after you use the restroom do you really want to touch ANYTHING before your hands are washed?  One bad stomach virus running through a family can turn your bathroom into a cesspool of germs.  Enter touchless fixtures!  Imagine how much cleaner and germ-free your bathroom could be if you never had to touch your toilet, faucet, or even soap dispenser.  Even without viruses present, these systems make it much easier for little ones to complete all of these tasks as well. Hopefully it encourages them to actually flush the toilet and wash their hands too!

Smart Lighting

• A midnight run to the bathroom is much easier when you are not fumbling to find the light switch while sleepwalking your way there.  The lights will magically turn on when you enter the room and also turn off when you leave.  Not only is this a huge convenience and safety factor, it also saves you money on your energy bills!  Philips has even come out with a cool new system, “Hue”, that allows you to control the color, temperature, and brightness of the light in your bathroom (or elsewhere in the house) all from your iPhone or iPad app (http://www2.meethue.com/en-us/).  Now that’s smart!

Digital Shower

• Did you say digital shower?  Trust us…it’s even more intriguing than it sounds!  Moen has created an ingenious product in the ioDIGITAL shower (http://www.moen.com/whats-new/innovation/iodigital). This gadget allows you to not only turn on your shower from the comfort of your bed, but it also remembers your preferences including temperature and pressure so each time you step in it’s exactly as you like it.  Now, if it could just have a cup of coffee waiting there too???

Television Mirror

• No one wants to kink their neck trying to catch the morning news AND shave or put on makeup.  Luckily, you don’t have to.  Vanishing entertainment mirrors have the look of a beautiful, decorative mirror most of the time and transform into a crisp, clear television picture when you want it to.  You don’t have to choose between getting ready for work and checking out the morning stock report-do them both at the same time!

Towel Warming Drawer

• You just took a relaxing, warm shower and are ready to slip into your pajamas.  Yikes!  Stepping out of the shower you are blasted with cool air and an even cooler towel.  There goes that relaxation and comfort you just achieved.  A towel warming drawer is a soothing luxury that is welcomed in any bathroom remodel.  Although a bit on the expensive side (averages around $1500), does it really matter when you know you will always have a warm, cozy towel to wrap up in after a shower?  This one is worth the splurge!

Forget being the biggest house on the block….being the “smartest” house on the block is worth much more!