Until 2019 you still have to get up and go fold that laundry

Oct 8, 2015 15:07 GMT  ·  By

You know that moment when the laundry machine stops spinning and drying your clothes, and you have to move your lazy self to the machine, and start folding your stuff? Well, a trio of Japanese companies said that you shouldn't move anymore and let the laundry machine do the folding for you.

Designed by housing firm Daiwa House, electronics company Panasonic and Seven Dreamers, Laundroid is the washing machine that doesn't wait for people to grab their clothes and start folding, but will do it for them instead. Started way back in 2008, Laundroid is still an ongoing project that will start offering pre-orders, and a year after that early models to the consuming public.

However, if you think that folding 3-in-1 machines are coming right from the start, you're wrong. The first models will get to big institutions first so they can cut employees some slack about not coming to work with their clothes washed, and washing them instead via the smart washing machine. If you look at the timeline, it's not probably going to be anything released to the public earlier than 2019.

Apparently, Laundroid was presented this year at CEATEC and the guys at Engadget got a glimpse of what it might do. To put it simple, they didn't see much as the mechanism behind laundry folding was completely hidden, and although the laundry came up folded to crisp neat edges, it takes the machine seven hours to complete a folding process.

The idea is ultimately impressive, but we can only wonder why it takes a trio of specialized high-tech Japanese companies a full fifteen years to develop what's essentially a laundry folding system? Should we call NASA on it or something?

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