Futuristic water-recycling shower cuts bills by over $1,000

By Stefanie Blendis and Monique Rivalland, for CNN

November 11, 2013 -- Updated 1951 GMT (0351 HKT)

(CNN) -- In space, astronauts go for years without a fresh supply of water. Floating in a capsule in outer space they wash and drink from the same continuously recycled source. So why, asked Swedish industrial designer Mehrdad Mahdjoubi, do we not do the same on Earth?

This was the concept behind the OrbSys Shower -- a high-tech purification system that recycles water while you wash. In the eyes of Mahdjoubi, we should start doing it now, before it becomes a necessity.