According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, Nivana is “a place or state of oblivion to care, pain, or external reality.” It has also been described as heaven or pure bliss. Fitting then that this beauty of a bathtub has been christened the Nirvana bathtub. This spa-level bathroom fixture lights your personal path to enlightenment via strategically placed LEDs that give the impression that you’re bathing among the stars.

But the Nirvana bathtub is more than luxury covered in pretty lights. It’s also eco-friendly, using approximately 60% less water than comparable tubs of its size due largely to the shallow high-grade translucent acrylic shape. In addition, the Nirvana features touch controls via a panel that controls an electronic tap and automatic water fill/stop function. Other controls include the motion sensitive hand shower, activated by a simple wave of a hand and the light controls, because sometimes you Nirvana is best reached without all the fanfare.

No word yet on whether this luxe tub is destined to remain a concept or whether it will be helping bathrooms worldwide transcend their lowly existence.

Via Born Rich

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Getting started with canning isn’t as hard as you might think, but boiling jars in a stove might be a tad too much production just to save some great fruit. The halfway solution? Cut it up and make freezer jam.

Traditional canning requires both enough heat to sterilize jars and create a vacuum seal when closed, along with enough confidence to know you did everything right and that your last-of-the-summer peaches will be safe to eat at room temperature four months from now. Freezer jam, on the other hand, requires just straight-edged glass jars or nearly any kind of freezer-safe plastic, along with some pectin, and enough time to chop and mix your fruit and pectin together.

Along with keeping certain summer fruits fresher than if one had canned them, writer Stephanie Stiavetti says freezer jam makes the tykes happy to get sandwich variety, and saves her a good chunk of change.

If you have children in the house, you might also notice yourself spending less on lunch fixings because decent store-bought jam demands a pretty penny these days. When I make freezer jam, the cost comes out to around 50 cents per 8-ounce container, and I have to say that the taste of homemade jam blows grocery store brands out of the water.

Tell us what you’ve saved from spoiling in your own freezer in the comments.

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Livebrush is a free motion-based drawing tool that lets you create stunning graphics and sketches in few strokes. It’s like a good alternative to Corel Painter.

Create Beautiful Drawings with Livebrush

Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.

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