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Enter the FoldiMate, a $700-$850 machine that will fold, steam, and perfume your clothes for you. The three-foot-high machine simply requires users to clip their clothes to the outside of the device.
For a future washing machine that washes, dries and then folds the results, it's one of the small barriers that remains in that latter stage. But as a research project that started back in 2008 ...
Too bad this gadget can’t do the ironing, too. Panasonic teamed up with tech company Seven Dreamers and Japan’s largest homebuilder, Daiwa House, to create the Laundroid — a laundry-folding ...
Washing, drying and folding – the bain of our existence – might become less of a chore, thanks to a contraption that automates that tedious third step. A San Francisco-based start-up called ...
Nobody likes folding their laundry, plain and simple. It’s tedious, time-consuming, and just an overall drag. So why not let a robotic laundry machine do the job for you? Enter the Foldimate ...
Japan's Seven Dreamers Laboratories has offered a look at the world’s first automatic laundry-folding machine, which it says could save some people 9,000 hours of chores.
This article was originally published with the title “Folding Washing Machine for Stationary Tubs” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 98 No. 20 (May 1908), p. 356 doi:10.1038 ...