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Fully-Assembled, Low-Cost Bathroom that Installs in Minutes Unveiled at Kitchen/Bath Industry Show

Posted on: Tuesday, 28 April 2009, 16:18 CDT

Prototypes Demonstrate Feasibility of "Plug & Play" Concept

ATLANTA, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagine a fully-assembled, ready-to-install, low-cost bathroom that can fit through the door of a home and be ready to use in about five minutes by hooking it up to hose connectors similar to those used with your washing machine.

That's theRefresher(TM), a new-concept appliance being unveiled today at the Kitchen/Bath Industry Show & Conference in Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center.

About the size of a side-by-side refrigerator, theRefresher includes a toilet, sink, shower, mirror, lighting, and storage for toiletries and towels -- all enclosed in an attractive portable room that can be easily installed in a home, apartment, office, factory, store, restaurant, dormitory, classroom or hotel -- anywhere you want an additional bathroom.

The two patent-pending prototypes demonstrated are only 3 feet and 3-1/2 feet deep and fit snugly in a corner taking up about 8 or 11 square feet. The two models should sell for $2,000 and $3,000 respectively, far less than the cost of adding a conventional bathroom.

Douglas Birdsall, a 35 year airline executive and now entrepreneur, conceived theRefresher to fill a market need for a well-designed, low-cost, ready-to-install bathroom without the hassle and greater expense of constructing one.

"It's really a totally new-concept major appliance because the self-contained unit can be so easily installed in a plug and play manner, just like other major appliances," he said. His company, newParadigm in Stamford, CT, is actively seeking to attract partners as manufacturers and sellers of theRefresher.

newParadigm, a product design firm headquartered in Stamford, CT was founded in 2004 by Douglas Birdsall, a 35-year airline executive turned entrepreneur. In his airline career, Mr. Birdsall served as senior vice president of Alliances at Northwest Airlines, senior vice president of Marketing and Planning at Continental and president of New York Air.

newParadigm aims to provide consumers with cost effective new concept products that serve everyday needs in a more convenient manner increasing the quality of life.

theRefresher is the first of several products designed to meet that goal.

For more information contact: Douglas Birdsall President newParadigm 1 Stamford Landing, Suite 120 Stamford, CT 06902 Ofc. 203-967-7263 doug@newParadigm-llc.com www.theRefresher.com

SOURCE newParadigm

Source: PR Newswire

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