If you think the only benefit to a fully-connected smarthome is getting notifications on your phone when someone is breaking into your house, you're missing the bigger picture. Whirlpool is introducing a connected washer and dryer that can talk to your Nest thermostat so it knows when you're home and when you're away…

Why oh why this handsfree all-in-one sink/dryer is not a standard fixture in every single public restroom in the world? First you soap, then you wash your hands, then you dry them, all in the same damn place. Isn't this logical?

OK, please, give this a chance before you close the tab—a hand dryer can be cool. The Dyson Airblade, that little wonderbox you stick your mitts inside to get a super-fast bathroom dry, just got a super upgrade.

Public and workplace washrooms often have far fewer hand dryers than they have sinks to wash hands in, leaving people queuing for a dryer with dripping hands.

This image wasn't photoshopped. Ian Hobson created it using his dryer machine and a modified laser projector. The result is how I imagine the Large Hadron Collider works deep inside—operated by Duck Dodgers, of the 24th and a half century.

Dryer sheets. You probably think their utility ended with soft jeans and cozy socks. Nope! Turns out there's a whole mess of other uses for 'em.

The new Conair BaByliss Pro Volare hairdryer packs an "engine" built with Ferrari's team using real Ferrari parts. I'm just hoping that if I use the Volare my hair will ooze Italian sex appeal.

I'm disappointed that the Drymate dryer is only a concept, because I'd love to have it pretty up my laundry room while confusing people with it's mysterious vacuum condensation technology. I'd finally want to do laundry. [Coroflot via Appliancist]

Leave it to the Japanese to come up with an environmentally friendly solution to drying wet umbrellas. The new “Rain Wipe” from Annon removes rainwater using a squeegee-like device to pull water from the umbrella into a collecting tray. The tray would only need replacement after about 3000 umbrellas have been…

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…

Many people in Japan and other parts of Asia forego dryers in favor of just hanging out their clothes on a line. Whether it's for space conservation (quite likely) or out of habit, people there don't seem to be big on dryers. This Somela Fast Dehydrator, on the other hand, seems to be a quick and fairly easy way of…

Remember, sweaty feet equals smelly shoes. Do everyone around you a favor by drying your shoes regularly with the new Eco Shoes Dryer. Each dryer contains a silica gel material that can absorb moisture using power generated by an internal battery that can be charged from any standard wall socket. When your shoes are…

We're getting jealous of our California brethren, with all those sunny skies and balmy nights, because the rest of us are shoveling snow, getting cold and traipsing inside with frozen-solid boots and gloves that need to be dried, and fast. That's where this winter gear dryer might come in handy. It sure beats putting…

Mitsubishi's own high-speed hand air-dryer has been deployed in Japan for almost 10 years now, a fact most foreigners—like us—were oblivious of. Apparently, that includes Dyson.

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.