Waterless
Washing Machine Levitates Laundry and Cleans It with Dry Ice
Waterless Washing
Machine
The spherical drum
floats through magnetic levitation.
It makes my day when new
technology promises to make life's most tedious tasks more interesting. Take
laundry, for example. I would loathe it so much less if I had a friendly robot
to help me fold my socks. Or perhaps if I had this waterless washing
machine, which would levitate
my clothes and scrub them clean with dry ice in a matter of minutes.
The Orbit uses a battery-filled ring to levitate a
supercooled superconductive metal laundry basket. The basket is coated in two
layers of shatterproof glass and chilled using liquid nitrogen. The batteries
inside the ring produce a magnetic field, and the basket levitates inside this
field as its electrical resistivity drops.
The laundry orb, which
is opened and controlled using a ceramic-based touchscreen interface, blasts
sublimated dry ice at supersonic speeds toward your clothes. The carbon dioxide
interacts with the organic materials in your laundry and breaks them down. Then
the dirt and grime is filtered out through a tube that you can rinse, and the
CO2 is removed and re-frozen (though it's not
clear how, because this would require lots of energy). Voila, clean and dry
clothes.
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