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Panasonic’s Eco-Navi Washer Knows Just How Filthy You Are
1:00PM Rosa Golijan | In the interest of conserving energy, water and shame, the Eco-Navi washer uses light-activated sensors to detect your icky-sticky-eugh-so-disgusting stains and adjusts the wash cycles accordingly. What’s really dirty about the whole thing though is the appliance’s price: $US3000. More »
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11:40AM Jesus Diaz | This is the Samsung Fridge, created by design powerhouse Gro. It doesn’t only look awesome and retro-futuristic—straight out of a set from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 or the new Star Trek—but it can do cool things too. More »
Someone Stole The ISS Fridge
11:40AM Jesus Diaz | This is the Samsung Fridge, created by design powerhouse Gro. It doesn’t only look awesome and retro-futuristic—straight out of a set from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 or the new Star Trek—but it can do cool things too. More »
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One Wash, One Cup of Water: Nearly Waterless Washing Machine Invented
9:28PM Gizmodo US Edition | British inventors have designed a washing machine that takes eco-friendliness to a new level: it uses just a single cup of water to wash a load of clothes. Instead of water the Xeros machine uses thousands of special plastic chips (about 44 pounds’ worth) in each wash, and when that single cup of water is heated, these chips absorb the dirt—including tricky stuff like coffee and lipstick. The chips are removed when the wash ends, and can be reused up to 100 times. Though it’s still in prototyping, the inventors are intending to commercialise their machine, and it may even hit the shops next year for a price similar to conventional machines. [Daily Mail] More »
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Concept Dishwasher Looks Nice, May Turn Your Kitchen into a Rainforest
7:40PM Addy Dugdale | Spring segueing into summer means degree shows, when students show off their, frankly, outtahere-lunatic creations. So, without further ado, let’s go to the Centre de Design at the University of Quebec in Montreal, where we have an innovative wall-hung dishwasher, or dishwasheur, as it’s probably called. More »
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