We consider an in home washing machine to be up there at the height of luxury. While others may dream of swimming pools and four car garages, give us a washing machine in our home. We could do our laundry nekkid so that just for once, even just once, the dreaded laundry would be finished. But alas, until we move to someplace bigger with space for a laundry room, that dream is just a pipe dream. Unless...
A Very Very Small Washing Machine
Not if Harsha Vardan R, an industrial design student in India, has their way. This is their concept of a washing machine. Small, compact, with another use as a seat (with its own set of possible uses we won't go into here...), it's truly a washer for small space living. It doesn't use water or detergent for that matter, rather the inner chamber acts as a kind of pressure washer, cleaning the clothes with ionized air, making a dryer obsolete. True, it's a very small unit but we like that it's thinking outside the giant metal box that makes the dream of having a washer, even in my home, even in the living room, an idea that could some day be a reality. For more information, click here
Comments (3)
Daily Email
Top Tours
- Jaime and Carleton's Backyard Palm Springs
- Moses and Jamie's Whimsical Modern
- A Mid-Century Modern Musicians' Loft
- Bryan's Fashionable Statement
- Alysia's Treehouse by the Lake
Top Posts
© 2009 Apartment Therapy
It shows how air moves, where air goes, how air is filtered... doesn't show where dirt goes. Classic washing machines work by agitating the clothes so that the dirt, sweat, stains, etc. come off and/or out of the fibers (because it's rarely just on the surface), soap helping along the process, and then the dirty substances are physically removed in the water by draining and rinsing.
This ionized air machine looks like it wouldn't be much more effective than leaving your dirty clothes on a line outside in fresh air. (Which is free and doesn't take up much space either. But it won't get your clothes clean.)
view fraise's profile
I agree with Fraise, unless this concept somehow includes a device that breaks the molecular bonds of dirt, stains, bacteria, etc. with fabric fibers, without damaging it or altering dyes, it functions as the equivalent of hanging your clothes out in the breeze.
view John H's profile
I would imagine that it worked a little like a dryer/vacuum and have a filter that had to be cleaned. And similarly to a vacuum, while it was good for regular cleaning, I am sure that when you get a stain or something more soiled you would probably want to go with a more conventional washing machine.
view hydeordie's profile