Dyson claims to have developed the world’s fastest, most efficient motor for domestic appliances. The Dyson Digital Motor (DDM) v2 is a single-phase brushless DC motor, which operates at speeds up to 104,000 rpm with a claimed efficiency of 84%. Dyson’s first digital motor, announced in 2003, use…
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Waterless Washing Machine, Again… Well, Nearly
This story has been doing the rounds over the past few days and don’t get too excited just yet as, so far as we can gather, this is going to be launched for commercial applications initially. But it may come to domestics as well but, it’s a bit odd really. The eco-friendly Xeros washing machine, …
LG Non-Plumbed Water & Ice Fridge Freezer Launched
Remember the container ship with the new LG fridge freezer plastered all over it from yesterday? Well, here’s one of the new LG fridge models, with water and ice but that doesn’t require to be plumbed in. It carries the catchy model name of GWL227HSYA, which is of course easy to remember…
Boardroom Changes At F&P
There have been changes at the top of Fisher & Paykel Appliances in the wake of the Chinese firm Haier taking a stake of 20% in the company. Haier’s chief financial officer, Tan Lixia and chief marketing officer, Zhou Yunjie will join the board of the appliance maker.
Which? Says People Don’t Trust ”Green” Adverts
Well here’s a shocker, people are starting no to believe the “green” label being attached to almost every product launched these days. It’s not a surprise really as it seems almost every product is “green” in some way these days, even when they’re not. But Which? reports that two thirds of consum…
LG Use A Container Ship To Advertise Fridges
This is one of the stories that border on “whacky”. But, it’s serious as LG have indeed painted a massive advert on a container ship, which you can see in the image below, to mark the launch of it’s new energy efficient fridge freezers.
Whirlpool Introduce ”Change Your Water Filter Month”
Sometimes you wonder if the marketing guys have nothing better to do with their time bar come up with these sorts of hair brained ideas. Week for this, week for that, day for this, day for that… pity we don’t get a holiday with each one as well. But our prejudice of marketing departments aside …
Hotpoint Launches Openspace, Looks Like A Samsung To Us
Well you know how it goes, one manufacturer launches a product, another looks and thinks, “oh that’s a good idea”, copies it and all too often a legal battle ensues over patents. Well, it appears that Hotpoint liked Samsung’s idea about having two heating zones in one oven and have introduced the…
Certification Deadline Looms For FGAS Registration
The Whitegoods Trade Association is pleased to announce that is has been approved by the Secretary Of State and DEFRA to offer F Gas interim personnel certificates for those with suitable experience. The certificates are available with immediate effect and any applications should be processed wit…
Gas Hob Spare Parts Identification Help
Identifying Gas Hob Parts There are of course many different types of gas hob that utilise many different ways of, more or less, doing the same thing but, what we show you below is a typical blow-out diagram of a typical four burner gas hob to sow you all the different spare parts on …