Glimpses Of The Future, A WashDryIron Machine?
from the go-go-gadget-laundry dept
Since the development of the modern washing machine in the 1900s, the washing machine hasn't really progressed that much (sure, there have been several attempts at net-connected machines, but those have never amounted to much). While we no longer have to lug our clothing down to the river and hang it up to dry, laundry is still an all day chore. We still have to put clothes in the machine, add detergent, move the clothes to the dryer, fold the clothes, and (in some cases) iron them. A British college student created a machine that washes, dries and irons clothing all by itself. While I do have concerns over the size of the machine (the fridge sized machine looks like it holds only 16 shirts), the idea is that laundry can be done without tethering us to the laundry room all day. If it's no longer necessary to think about laundry in terms of "loads", perhaps there's a day when you never have to worry about having dirty clothes -- after you're done wearing something, you put it back in the machine, and it's automatically cleaned, dried and folded back into the closet. Aha! That's how the Jetsons managed to wear the same thing every day. Next on the list, a car that folds up into your briefcase.
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Disposable clothes?
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i dunno... 16 items is probably equal to about a small to medium size load. since laundry always took so long, people usually wait til then *needed* to do laundry, cause the wash cycle and dry cycle always took the same amount of time (though folding and ironing was directly proportional to how much laundry there was). since you wouldn't be required to do any of that, this allows you to do laundry more often with smaller loads. therefore the size of the loads isn't that much of a problem.
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Space Equiptment??
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Robotic Research
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I'm on my way to start writing the patent now!
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No this is how clothes are folded.
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