Tag: LAUNDRY

Want to watch a robot fold a pair of socks? Don't worry. The UC Berkeley researchers behind the PR2 bot's laundry experiment have sped up the video 15 times, so it only takes a minute. The droid looks like it's teaching a combination home economics and sex-ed class, and it won the 'Sockification' team $5,000 from PR2 makers Willow Garage. ...

Doing laundry itself isn't half bad, since you have machines that do the washing and drying for you. But folding? That's a different story altogether. Our t-shirts rarely come out of our laundry bag until it's time for them to be worn, and just end up completely wrinkled, as a result. But those days may be coming to an end as researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have taught a ...

Doing laundry is about as fun as watching the paint dry, and given our technological advances, it hasn't come very far in the past 50 years, at least in terms of convenience. Enter the Maytag washing machines at Wheelock College; the wired washers and dryers actually text and e-mail when they're done with a load. The system lets students log on to a Web site where a virtual laundry room shows ...

We thought we'd seen MP3 players crammed into just about everything you could possibly think of: TVs, cars, phones, GPS devices, etc. But LG is upping the ante. The company that's previously combined an HDTV with a refrigerator has now filed a new patent for ... drum roll, please ... a washing machine MP3 player. Yes, you read that correctly: The proposed new device is a washing machine rigged ...