Designed by Marie-Christine Lacasse and Marie Claude Savard, I almost like it. Almost. Big thumbs-up to the elongated rack—but I'm just not sure about that "autonomous" dishwasher unit that moves across the rack, rather like the printer head on an old dot matrix printer. And ladies, where was the spirit level in the making of your dishwasheur? Attention to detail, that's Giz all over, innit? [MoCo Loco]

The result? Success.

They removed the keyboard right before the drying cycle began, and it came out in a pristine state of cleanliness. But we all expected that, the question is does it still work? In this case it did, every key continued to work just like it did the day they bought it.

So what does this tell us? Common sense says keep your electronics out of the water, moron. It's NPR. Do you really trust their exploration into gadget cleanliness? But if you are truly filthy and have unsuccessfully tried everything else to get your keyboard to shed its grime, then we say give it a go. Worst case it breaks and you go by a new one, preferably waterproof. Either way you don't have a dirty keyboard anymore that scares your friends away.

Now we ask you the reader, what is your fail-safe tactic for cleaning your keyboard? Rubbing alcohol? Moist towelettes? Cotton swabs? Canned air? Do tell, because the keyboards here at Gizmodo HQ are getting pretty raunchy. – Ben Longo

Are Computer Keyboards Dishwasher Safe? [NPR via Digg]

But look! This dishwasher is small enough to fit in my apartment! But then again, it only holds like four plates. And I mean, how hard is it really to wash four plates? I might be lazy, but I'm not so lazy that I'm going to go spend $189 on this water waster. I guess I'll just keep saving my pennies until I can afford to move into a place with a real dishwasher. –Adam Frucci

Product Page [via Crave]

There's even a special tray for Lego bricks. (Jump for a photo)

–Brian Lam

Bosch Lego Dishwasher [slashgear]

PS, that brick isn't really painted on the washer front.

We love the World's Smallest Dishwasher as much as you did and were considering ordering one, so we were extremely bummed to find out that it's out of stock and no longer in production. Reader David was kind enough to forward the email he got from Christopher, the owner of goodcommonsense.net:

We would love to send you more photos, but unfortunately we've been misled and no longer have the cd-400 compact dishwasher available to us. In fact, we learned today that the manufacturer recently discontinued this line entirely (and failed to let us know). After much research, we have concluded that there are no units available from anyone, anywhere in the US.

I'm so sorry for the confusion. Today's response after the Gizmodo posting has been amazing, but unfortunately - this product is no longer available.

We've emailed Christopher to see if they plan on carrying another compact dishwasher in its place, and are researching alternatives ourselves. We'll write about our results in the next few days but in the meantime, if you've got any finds or recommendations yourselves please let us know in the comments or drop us an email.

New York apartments most often than not don't have dishwashers in them, partly because of the lack of space and partly because in many old buildings water is folded into your rent and the landlord just doesn't want a hefty water bill. As a result, we know more than a few people in the city who hate doing dishes so much that they've just done away with them, using paper plates and plastic utensils the few times they eat meals at home that aren't straight out of take-out containers. For them, $199 might not be too dear a price to pay for this dishwasher the size of a microwave that you install on your counter and can clean up to four place settings at a time. It saves space and it saves water, and it's not like you can fit more than four people into your average New York apartment anyway.

World's Smallest Dishwasher [goodcommonsense.net, via Kitchen Contraptions]