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Chinese Students Use New App To Operate Phone In Shower

A school located in the province of Hunan in China has a surprising innovation offered to its students: they have developed a new application that can operate the school dormitory’s shower via their smartphones.

However, Central South University’s own students have mixed views regarding this new technology. While some seem to approve of the app, others are more cautious. One student says that “the novelty costs additional money and is a waste of natural resources.” This is due to the fact that students cannot, or perhaps do not, immediately take a shower after they switch on the water through their phones.

Another student prefers the alternative, as “the probability of losing a card is much higher than that of losing a cellphone.”

Central South University (CSU) isn’t the only school to implement new phone technology on their campuses. Nearby school Changsha University of Science and Technology also required its students last December to scan a QR code through a downloaded mobile app before they can use the hot water in the school’s bathhouse.

Understandably, many students expressed their disapproval of this new mandate. “A shower is not a proper place to use a mobile phone,” one of them complains. “It’s really unimaginably strange to scan a QR code to take a bath.”

Li Bin, a professor of sociology from CSU, believes that students should be given a choice whether or not they would like to use the apps. “Instead of making their campus smart, the flood of apps have caused many unneeded troubles for students,” he expresses. “[They] should be entitled to opt out of campus apps and choose another option.”

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