Gizmodo: washer

Panasonic's Eco-Navi Washer Knows Just How Disgustingly Filthy You Are

Rosa Golijan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:00:00 EDT

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: $3,000.

Even if the washer is all eco-friendly with electricity consumption dropping "from 79 watt hours to 72 watt hours and water consumption trickl[ing] down to 67 liters from 72 liters per load," the price is outrageous and keeps us from adding it to our laundry rooms just yet. (Though one of us could use it for his questionable bedsheet stains.) [Discover]

No More Mildewy Undies, Thanks to the Twittering Washing Machine

Dan Nosowitz — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:45:00 EST

If you get distracted with brilliant blogs written by unspeakably handsome writers and forget about your laundry only to find your clothes smelly and gross in the machine five hours later, this hack's for you.

Ryan Rose added an ethernet port and a limit switch to his washer to detect on/off cycles and transmit the data in a more forceful way than some lame "ding" sound. When Ryan's drawers are done, his washer sends the signal to a couple of LED signs in his living room that flash "WASH," as well as sending Tweets to his questionably-named Twitter account, Pimpy3Wash. It's actually pretty useful; clothes can get nasty when left to ferment in the machine, and I know I'm not the only one to get distracted by all the shiny things on the internet instead of keeping a careful watch on my duds. [MAKE via Technabob]

Laundry Concept Hides Washing Machine In Lounge Chair

Elaine Chow — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:00:00 EDT

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 ionized air instead of water.

While the Alternative Clothes Cleaner unfortunately still remains in the realm of fantasy, I'd like to believe that someday an appliance like this will finally exist. Then we can all place bets on how many cosmopolitans I'd need to chug before I can pull out my unmentionables in front of the cutie two sofa-washers down. [DVICE]

Slam-Dunk the Funk(y Clothing) with the Tian Chi Washer

AddyDugdale — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:11:20 EST

Designed for electronic giant Candy and Italian business organization 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]

Recycling Washer/Dryer Concept

Brian Lam — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:26:47 EDT

This concept washing machine by Reed Crawford saves water from one of the cleaner, later rinse cycles for use in a future wash. Smart, but only if there is an override that I can activate when washing soiled underwear. I mean, hypothetically.
[Yanko]

LG's Washing Machine Has an iPod Dock

Jason Chen — Mon, 28 May 2007 11:03:16 EDT

Of all the things that we've seen an iPod dock stuck onto, this washing machine is probably the worst. LG's patent for a "Home appliance with MP3 player" loads a dock for the iPod/Zune on the top along with speakers and what looks like a powerline networking adapter with a slot for a USB port.

We're not sure how useful this is—who spends all 40 minutes of the cycle standing in front of the washer?—but LG apparently has other ideas in mind. Oh crap, that reminds us that we left a wet load in the washer last night! – Jason Chen

A Washing Machine with Mp3 player by LG [Unwiredview]

Dyson's CR01 Contrarotating Double-Drum Washing Machine

Brian Lam — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:48:07 EDT

Dyson, masters of the cyclonic vacuum cleaners are taking on the task of washing out your dirty laundry. The contrarotating, or rotating in an opposite manner, design uses two drums to get clothes cleaner, by "flexing" fabrics more. Sounds like its rough on the delicates, but we're not laundry men, so what do we know?

The drums have about 5,000 perforations, while most have about a 1,000, presumably to get better water flow during a cycle. And the front door is made from polycarbonate plastic, hard and light enough to be used in riot gear shields. There's also a pull out handle for moving it around. Which is cool, but really useless at the same time. Who moves a washer? Never mind the gripes, though. We just like it because its freaking purple. –Brian Lam

Dyson washing machine - 2-drum wash action [Appliancist]

Panasonic Washer Dryer Combo

Jason Chen — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:59:04 EDT

Washer/Dryer combos aren't anything we haven't seen before, but this one features a tilted-drum so children and the elderly can easily load and unload clothes. That is, actual elderly citizens living by themselves, not lazy middle-aged men making their parents do their laundry for them.

This machine is targeted for the Asian market, and has a heat-pump dryer so "no heater or water is used during the dry cycle." We guess that's good? We're no laundry experts. I don't even have any clean clothes left—I'm so very naked. Go go breeze-blogging! – Jason Chen

Panasonic washing and drying machine [Appliancist]