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Robots
Foldy The Laundry Folding Robot Is Qualified To Work At The Gap
7:40AM Sean Fallon | Folding laundry is right up there with making the bed on the list of mundane household chores I don’t want to do. Fortunately, Foldy can fold faster than a Gap employee (but slower than Superman on laundry day). More »
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Like Everything, Washing Machines Would Be Better with TVs
8:00AM Mark Wilson | How do you make a semi perfect product better? You add a TV, that’s how. More »
Design
Baguni Washing Machine Takes In Entire Laundry Baskets
11:20AM Jason Chen | This Baguni washing machine concept saves one step, the one where you empty your clothes basket into the washing machine, from your laundry cycle. Is this a huge problem for people? More »
Design
Re-cycle Laundry Center: ‘Spin Cycle’ Taken Literally
5:40AM Mark Wilson | According to its designers, this is the washing machine that you’ll use in…well, sometime in the future. Called the Re-cycle Laundry Centre, one pod washes, one pod dries and a third pod filters all the water to be reused for another load. Meanwhile, to eliminate the need for a pump, the user spins the rig like a big wheel to redistribute the water. We’re not so sure that extraneous manual labour is in our vision of the future, but we do appreciate the concept’s Triple-Xbox-Jet-Engine design. [Yanko Design] More »
Press
Brits Set Up Fake Laundromats with Bomb-Sniffing Washing Machines
1:00AM Adam Frucci | Now here’s a creative military operation: the British set up a fake Laundromat in Belfast, where they wanted to find IRA bomb-makers. They staffed the Laundromat with locals and sent out coupons to different neighborhoods, with each neighborhoods coupon a different colour. When people brought their clothes and coupons in, they got their clothes washed, but while their clothes were being washed, they were secretly being analysed for bomb-making chemical residue. More »
Design
iBasket Laundry Concept is Clothes Hamper, Washer For The Lazy
5:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Like most New Yorkers, my building has no laundry facilities of its own and, in order to get clean clothes, I have to summon the willpower to drag my brimming bag three blocks. Oh, if only I had this automated washing machine basket instead. Designed by Guopeng Liang and one of the finalists in Electrolux’s Design Lab ‘08 contest, the iBasket is a space saving clothes hamper and washing machine in one. More »
Design
Laundry Concept Hides Washing Machine In Lounge Chair
6:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Someone I know once had the awesome idea of turning a laundromat (popular here in my neck of the woods) into a singles bar. With this concept washer and dryer from Indian designer Harsha Vardhan, we could up our prospective plans a notch and instead turn laundromats into singles lounges. The make believe washing machine doubles as a large seat whether it’s in active or passive mode. The inner chamber of the chaise acts as a pressure washer and cleans clothes with ionised air instead of water. More »
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Cord-o-Clip: The Clothesline Goes Version 2.0
4:43AM Gizmodo US Edition | The thing those two happy chappies are demonstrating is yet another high-tech clothes-drying device: the Cord-o-Clip. What makes this gadget whizzy? Well, you know when you go out to hang clothes on your line, and you’re juggling with the laundry and a bag of pegs, maybe with a couple jammed between your teeth because you’ve got no free hands? And then you drop a sock and a T-shirt? Not anymore: cord-o-clip uses a pair of lines on a pulley system that has captive pegs ready to grip onto your clean stuff. More »
Networks
40-Gigabit Granny Used World’s Fastest Connection to Dry Laundry
1:33AM Wilson Rothman | The most famous story to come out of Sweden in 2007—besides the death of celebrated cinema pioneer Ingmar Bergman, who I thought was already dead—was the 40-gigabit internet connection of the septuagenarian Sigbritt Löthberg. Giz reader speculation that she was going to “host her knitting circle as an HD interactive webconference” was close: in fact she used the hot-as-hell connection to dry her laundry. More »
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