Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Future of Washing Clothes

Orbit by Electrolux- The Water-less washing machine
It levitates the clothes and scrubs 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.