While the concept of dry-cleaning isn’t foreign, a waterless (and detergentless!) home washing machine sure sounds too good to be true for the green-minded consumer. Enter Airwash, the “waterless washing machine for the home of 2020,” one of the winners of the recent INDEX Awards: Design To Improve Life Competition. Innovative in both form and function, the design was submitted by two students from Singapore, Gabriel Tan & Wendy Chua, after it won the prestigious ElectroLux Design Lab Award back in 2005. Using negative ions, compressed air and deodorants to clean clothes, the gracefully shaped and eco-friendly appliances will have your whites whiter and colors brighter in a matter of minutes.
So it will freshen clothes up, but it won’t get that tahini stain out of my tie…we’ll probably see this in hotels before homes.
I wonder if it works on ketchup stains.
Sounds great, but I’m always a bit wary of abstract concepts like these. I wonder what the energy consumption is like.
does this mean that you have to wash the clothes individually?
How does it get out organic stains ( peanut butter, coffee, ketchup, tea, bicycle chain oil, sweat, blood, tears)? And it appears to be capable of only one garment at a time…..how efficient is that?
No washing machine (well, at least for now) is able to handle stubborn stains which will still require some pre-soaking or pre-treatment.
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and how about all that ozone that the ionizer will be producing? Possibly the least green product idea I’ve seen in a long time.
Yeah, I remember this the first time around. And now two years on, and I’m still not seeing any independent verification that the thing works – or anyone wanting to bring it to market. I’ll hold off buying one until I see the Which? report, thanks. Right now, all this is is a couple of students resubmitting a competition entry to a different competition, and winning. Well, good for them.
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I want to know the price of the waterless washing machine
It’s interesting that these days hardly anyone ever asks if something works or not. It is a very interesting concept, but most of these neat-sounding ideas seem to get grabbed by giant corporations and they don’t every do anything with them.
i have a washing machine that is air wash (deodorization & sterilization) i tried it once with my husband suit it was clean but i spray the deodorizarion on the suit.befor i airwash it came out clean