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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action 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?
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]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Designed for electronic giant Candy and Italian business organisation La Fucina, the Tian Chi washing machine introduces an element of fun to the daily grind of household chores, A spring-loaded trap door in the top means that you can play basketball with your dirty clothes every washday. Unlike me, Carlo Casagrande and Yu Wenhou Ben are obviously no fans of household chores, but that’s because they don’t have Jesus doing the laundry in nothing but a loincloth and high heels. [Yanko]
Scientists in China and Australia have developed a method of cleaning fabric using nanotechnology that avoids dunking clothes in soapy water, before scrubbing and rinsing. The titanium dioxide-based coating bonds to silk and wool and uses sunlight to automagically decompose dirt, stains and microorganisms, meaning smelly socks could be a thing of the past—something that teenage boys’ mums will applaud the world over.
This is probably the first time the word “sexy” has ever been used to describe a washing machine—but this concept piece from designer Simona Luculano is definitely worthy of such an adjective. Unlike traditional washing machine eyesores that must be hidden in a garage or behind sliding doors, the Flexible Distance washing machine could actually be used as a decorative piece.
