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Wash Clothes Minus the Water and Suds |
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 |
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In the old days -- the really old days -- people washed their clothes by beating them on rocks. After a few millenia of that we moved on to metal racks, then spinning drums, then finally the front-loading Energy Star-rated washing machine. All of these techniques have always shared one thing in common, and that's water. But those days may be drawing to a close thanks to the prototype Airwash, a clothes cleaner that uses ionized air to clean your dirty rags.
The Airwash creates compressed air "infused" with negative ions that do the dirty work of getting your gear pristine. Inside its shell are two suction panels that you slip your clothes over which "clean the clothes through cross-action, pulsation and sweeps." It's all delivered with an "emotive user experience through an intuitive buttonless interface" that will "humanise the washing machine into a symbol of holistic living."
We're not too sure about humanizing the washing machine, but anything that saves water is OK in our book ... so long as it actually gets all of those mustard, ketchup, BBQ sauce, mayo, A1, maple syrup and ice cream stains we rack up every day at lunch.
From OhGizmo! and designboom |
