This faucet uses 98% less water than traditional taps — now IKEA is about to launch a version that costs less than $6

Altered

• The founders of Swedish startup Altered have come up with an invention the whole world has been waiting for.
  
• Their first product Altered:Nozzle Dual Flow is developed for households and slashes water use to next to nothing.
  
• Furniture giant IKEA is already a partner and is about to launch a licensed model.

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Sometimes, inventions can benefit from staying in a drawer and "maturing" — and in this case, the invention stayed away for six years before it was finally taken out.

It was over a family meal at innovation professor Kaj Mickos's home that the old prototype was finally brought out of storage.

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